Alexander Wentker
Professional Positions
- since 2024 | Consultant Research Group "Shades of Illegality in International Peace and Security Law"
- since 2024 | Associate Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin, Chair of Public Law and International Law
- since 2024 | Associate Fellow, Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London)
- 2022 - 2024 | Legal clerkship at the Court of Appeal, 2024 Second Legal Examination
- 2019 - 2022 | Doctorate: Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law
- 2018 - 2022 | Research Associate at MPIL, 2022 Lecturer, Research Group "Shades of Illegality in International Peace and Security Law"
- 2017 - 2018 | Research Associate - Supreme Court of Namibia, Windhoek
- 2017 | Intern - United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, New York
- 2016 - 2017 | Master (Magister Juris (MJur)) - University of Oxford
- 2016 | First Legal Examination
- 2015 - 2016 | Master (Maîtrise en droit) - Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, specializing in international law
- 2012 - 2016 | Study of law - Humboldt University of Berlin
- 2012 - 2013 | Student Assistant - University of Potsdam, Chair of European and German Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Social Law and Public Commercial Law
- 2011 - 2012 | Law studies - University of Potsdam, German-French law program
Recent Publications
- Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law. Oxford Monographs in International Law. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2024, 336 S., soon to be published.
- Neutrality. In: Research Handbook of Legal Theory and War, Tom Dannenbaum, Eliav Lieblich (Hrsg.). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2024, soon to be published.
- Inter-State Assistance in War under International Law. In: German Yearbook of International Law 66 (2023), im Erscheinen (zusammen mit Claus Kreß).
- Identifying co-parties to armed conflict in international law: How and why states, international organizations and armed groups become parties to war. Chatham House Research Paper, 2024 (zusammen mit Miles Jackson und Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne (contributing authors)).
- At War? Party Status and the War in Ukraine. In: Leiden Journal of International Law 35, 643-656 (2023).
- Kriegspartei? Sicherheitspolitischer Diskurs und Völkerrecht im Ukraine-Krieg. In: DÖV 75, 988-995 (2022).
- L’assistance d’États tiers dans la guerre d’Ukraine au regard du droit international. In: Annuaire Français de Droit International 68, 173-192 (2022) (zusammen mit Claus Kreß).
- Partnered Operations and the Positive Duties of Co-Parties. In: Journal of Conflict & Security Law 27, 159-184 (2022).
- Die amerikanische Ausnahme [The American Exception]. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 08.02.2021, S. 15. (zusammen mit Richard Dören).
- Purpose-based regulation of consent to non-forcible interventions. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht /Heidelberg Journal of International Law 79, 671- (2019).
- Nichtteilnahme als Grenzphänomen zwischenstaatlicher Gerichts- und Schiedsverfahren – die Fälle South China Sea und Arctic Sunrise. In: Grenzen des Rechts, Marie-Claire Foblets, Dirk Hanschel, Armin Höland (Hrsg.). Universitätsverlag, Halle-Wittenberg 2018, 39-90.
- Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence, Appeal judgment [2017] UKSC 2. International Law in Domestic Courts 2803, 2018.