León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
Asser Institute for International and European Law
León Castellanos-Jankiewicz is Senior Researcher at the Asser Institute for International and European Law in The Hague and currently supervises the International Law Clinic on Access to Justice for Gun Violence at the University of Amsterdam. His work focuses on human rights, transitional justice and minority protection. Previously, he was Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Project on Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective. He has held research fellowships at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. In 2019, he was awarded the inaugural David D. Caron Prize by the American Society of International Law for best paper presented in the 2018 ASIL Research Forum. He holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
Posts by León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
SCOTUS Rules for Gun Manufacturers in Mexico Suit but Denies Blanket Immunity
This article was first published on Just Security. Prior TLB coverage of the case can be found here. On June 5, in Smith & Wesson Brands Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Mexico’s lawsuit against seven U.S. gun manufacturers and one distributor is barred by the immunity…
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