Rouven Diekjobst

Magister Juris, University of Oxford

First Legal State Exam (with distinction, ‘gut’), Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), Specialization in International and European Commercial Law

Coach for University of Oxford’s Jessup Moot Court Team

• 1st Place, UK national rounds, won all available prizes
• 5th Place, Jessup World Championship Rounds, Washington DC. Won prizes for memorials as well as individual performances. Oxford’s 2nd best performance to date  

Founding Member, Oxford International Law Society (OXILS)

Research Associate, IFHV

Research Assistant, IFHV

Assistant to Tobias Ackermann and Sebastian Wuschka during the editing process of “Investments in Conflict Zones” (Brill, 2020)

Student Coach for Ruhr-University’s 2020 Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Team, 7th place (out of 17) at the German national rounds and winner of the Best Respondent Memorial Award

Representative of the student assistants, IFHV

Student Assistant, IFHV

Student Assistant, Chair for Civil Law, Commercial Law, and Sports Law, RUB

“Sea-level Rise at the Security Council”, Bofax No. 648E, völkerrechtsblog: https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/sea-level-rise-at-the-security-council/.

„Klimanotstand über Gewaltenteilung?“, verfassungsblog: https://verfassungsblog.de/klimanotstand-uber-gewaltenteilung/.

Book Review, “Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches”, CUP 2022 (ed. by Simon Behrman and Avidan Kent), South African Journal of International Affairs 2022.

„Zustimmung unter Vorbehalt“, Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht (JuWiss), https://www.juwiss.de/112-2021/

“Sea-level Rise and Public International Law: The Case of “Lost” States”, in: Humanitäres Völkerrecht / Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict 2021 (1-2), 50 – 61 

“Klima Urteil gegen Shell: Meilenstein für Unternehmen und Menschenrechte“, together with Pierre Thielbörger, Legal Tribune Online, 01.06.2021

“Of crabbed age and bold youth”, Bofax No. 577E, together with Nadine Grünhagen, Völkerrechtsblog, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/of-crabbed-age-and-bold-youth/

“Das Menschenrechtssystem der Vereinten Nationen als Instrument zum Klimaschutz – mehr als nur ein Provisorium?“, in: Humanitäres Völkerrecht / Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict 2020 (3-4), 353 – 370

“Human Rights as Means to Challenge Climate Change Injustices”, together with Benedikt Behlert, in: WorldRiskReport 2020, 35 – 42

“Trumping Mexico’s Sovereignty?”, Bofax No. 540E, together with Vanessa Bliecke, Völkerrechtsblog, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/trumping-mexicos-sovereignty/

“The international whaling regime – a law with no teeth?”, Bofax No. 529E, Völkerrechtsblog, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-international-whaling-regime/

„Zu den verfassungsrechtlichen Anforderungen an die Fixierung“, Comment to Federal Constitutional Court Judgment 2 BvR 309/15 (24.07.2018), in: Rechtsprechungsreport der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 01/2019, 1.

US Constitutional Law II: Fundamental Rights 

„Arbeitsgemeinschaft im Staatsrecht III“, Tutorial on German Constitutional Law

Webinar Series “Covid-19 Vaccinations and International Law”, Co-Organizer and Co-Moderator, recordings available here and here

10^th UN-Research Colloquium on “The UN and Resources”, 08 – 10 October 2020, Bochum, Presentation on “The Implications of Sea-level Rise for International Law: The Case of “Lost” States”

Working Group of Critical Legal Scholars Bochum, Presentation on “Klimawandel und Menschenrechte”

Regional Human Rights Systems from a Comparative Perspective, International Conference, 12 – 13 December 2019, EUI Florence, Assistant Organizer

Scholarship by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation for Magister Juris studies.

St Cross/Law Faculty Scholarship, University of Oxford.

Faculty Prize, Faculty of Law, Ruhr-University Bochum. Awarded annually to the three best graduates.

Scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

IFHV Research Award 2019