Dr. Julian Hettihewa
Academic Interests
Age, Critical Approaches, Human Rights, International Law, Socio-Legal StudiesAcademic CV
| Since 05/2026 | Research Assistant at the Institute of International and Comparative Private Law, Chair of Professor Dr Susanne Lilian Gössl LLM |
| 02-03/2026 | Visiting Research Fellow of La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University |
| 01/2026 | Second State Examination in Law, LJPA NRW |
| 09-12/2025 | Independent Research Visitor at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law der University of Cambridge |
| 09-12/2025 | Visiting College Research Associate of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge |
| 07/2025 | Doctor of Law |
| 04-07/2025 | Lecturer, University of Bonn |
| 04-07/2024 | Lecturer, University of Bonn |
| 01/2024-01/2026 | Practical legal training at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne (with a stage at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OPCW, The Hague) |
| 04/2021-12/2023 | Visiting PhD Student at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford |
| 04-07/2021 | Lecturer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 06/2020-12/2023 | Research Assistant at the Institute for Public International Law, University of Bonn |
| 06/2020-09/2023 | Doctoral studies at the University of Bonn with Professor Dr Stefan Talmon LLM MA |
| 03/2020 | First State Examination in Law, GJPA Berlin |
| 04/2019-05/2020 | Student Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law |
| 10/2015-03/2020 | Law studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Westminster |
Affiliations and Functions
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Arbeitskreis junger Völkerrechtswissenschaftler*innen (AjV) (Member)
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Postmigrantischer Jurist*innenbund (Member)
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Völkerrechtsblog (Editor)
Publications
- Jugend im Völkerrecht. Reihe: Schriften zum Völkerrecht, Band 269, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2026, 398 pp
- Reflecting and Disordering. Writing Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog into History. Völkerrechtsblog, 2026, 277 Seiten [with Justine Batura et al]
- Jurisdiction – Who speaks international law? (2022) 82 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 289-482, Sonderheft [with Sué González Hauck et al]
- Potenziale der Youth Studies im Völkerrecht: Ein Plädoyer für einen wissenschaftlichen Austausch (2024) 62 Archiv des Völkerrechts 466-486
- Constructing Youth as Progress: Tracing Shared Efforts of the League of Nations and the United Nations (2024) 84 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 843-863
- Anspruch auf Teilhabe. Um die Repräsentation junger Menschen in der internationalen Politik wird gerungen (2022) 177 WZB-Mitteilungen 14-17 [with Anna Holzscheiter, Laura Pantzerhielm]
- Jurisdiction – Who speaks international law? (2022) 82 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht 289-298 [with Sué González Hauck et al]
- Race in German Legal Scholarship: Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back, in: Justine Batura et al (Hrsg.) Reflecting and Disordering. Writing Ten Years of Völkerrechtsblog into History (Völkerrechtsblog 2026) 28-37 [with Sué González Hauck]
- The Bornholm Declaration – another example of Germany’s support of youth participation in international organisations?, in: Stefan Talmon (Hrsg.) German Practice in International Law 2020 (Cambridge University Press 2023) 342-343 [with Stefan Talmon]
- As Night Follows Day, German Condemnation Follows North Korea’s Missile Tests, in: Stefan Talmon (Hrsg.) German Practice in International Law 2019 (Cambridge University Press 2022) 366-373
- Stefan Ruppert, Recht hält jung. Zur Entstehung der Jugend aus rechtshistorischer Sicht: Deutschland im langen 19. Jahrhundert (ca. 1800-1919) (2024) forum historiae iuris 1-4
- Introducing the Symposium ‘Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective’, Völkerrechtsblog (06.07.2026) [with M. A. et al]
- Editorial #49: Why a Quest for International Law? Reflections on the US Intervention in Venezuela, Völkerrechtsblog (04.02.2026)
- Technical International Law: Adjudicating Gaza in The Hague, Völkerrechtsblog (16.04.2024)
- Why a Court Alone Won’t Bring Us to Heaven: A Note on the Hearing of Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others, Völkerrechtsblog (12.10.2023)
- Looking Behind the UN Youth Office: Considering Structural Limitations of Youth Participation After the Party, EJIL:Talk! (04.08.2022)
- Why youth participation in climate change remains a struggle, Blog of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing (10.11.2021)
- Who Speaks International Law?: Introducing the Symposium on the 2021 AjV-DGIR Conference, Völkerrechtsblog (30.08.2021) [with Sué González Hauck]
- Navigating an Ocean of Information: Introducing Youth Delegate Search, a Database with Transformative Potential, Völkerrechtsblog (12.08.2021) [with Felix Schott]
- Navigating an Ocean of Information: Introducing Youth Delegate Search, a Database with Transformative Potential, Verfassungsblog (12.08.2021) [with Felix Schott]
- Hand in hand: an argument for an analytical alliance on young and older people, Blog of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing (14.07.2021)
- Reclaiming the Voice of Youth: Pandemic Politics and Law and the Invisibility of Youth, EJIL:Talk! (03.12.2020) [with Anna Holzscheiter]
- Jurisdiction – who speaks international law? Looking behind the scenes of the conference, Völkerrechtsblog (26.11.2020)
- As night follows day, German condemnation follows Noth Korea’s missile tests, GPIL – German Practice in International Law (26.11.2020)
- A turn to youth in international law? UN Security Council resolution 2535, Völkerrechtsblog (17.08.2020)
- The Bornholm Declaration – another example of Germany’s support of youth participation in international organisations?, GPIL – German Practice in International Law (04.06.2020) [with Stefan Talmon]
- Ein Rettungsschirm, gespannt von Jugendhand?, JuWissBlog (12.05.2020)
- Rejuvenating international law. An introduction to an emerging field of research, Völkerrechtsblog (14.04.2020) [with Selin Dirik, Felix Schott, Lewis Wattenberg]
- “Germany’s Strong Public Support for Israel Has Made the Country the Main Target”: An Interview with Stefan Talmon, Völkerrechtsblog (11.03.2024) [with Stefan Talmon]
- “I resigned because Russia had become an absolutely indefensible client”: An Interview with Alain Pellet, Völkerrechtsblog (04.07.2022) [with Alain Pellet, Justine Batura, Polina Kulish]
- «J’ai démissionné car la Russie était devenue un client absolument indéfendable»: Une interview avec Alain Pellet, Völkerrechtsblog (04.07.2022) [with Alain Pellet, Justine Batura, Polina Kulish]
- “We Are Trying to Speak Up Because We Know What is Happening in Our Countries”: An Interview on Youth Participation During Pre-COP26, Völkerrechtsblog (29.10.2021) [with Elizabeth Wathuti]
- “We contributed to the respect for international law and the peaceful resolution of international conflicts”: An interview with Ina Heusgen, Völkerrechtsblog (08.02.2021) [with Ina Heusgen]
- „Wir haben in diesem Gremium zur Einhaltung des internationalen Rechts und zur friedlichen Konfliktlösung beigetragen“: Ein Interview mit Ina Heusgen, Völkerrechtsblog (08.02.2021) [with Ina Heusgen]