DrJulian Hettihewa

Julian Hettihewa is a Lecturer at Deakin Law School. He received his PhD from the University of Bonn, where he also worked as a Lecturer and as a Research Assistant to Professor Stefan Talmon. Julian studied law in Berlin and London and is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany. He is an editor at Völkerrechtsblog.

Julian’s research interests span international law, constitutional law, critical approaches, socio-legal studies, Youth Studies, and Gerontology. 

With his PhD, Julian developed a novel framework focussing on youth in international law, which may be called 'Young Approaches to International Law'. His doctoral research project was supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a grant from the Berlin University Alliance. Julian co-lead a research group on Youth Delegates to the UN General Assembly at Freie Universität Berlin and created the digital database 'Youth Delegate Search', which is supported by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library. In addition, Julian was a Visiting PhD Student at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing (University of Oxford).

Most recently, Julian was a Visiting Research Fellow at La Trobe Law School. Prior to that, he was a Visiting Academic Research Associate at Wolfson College (University of Cambridge) and an Independent Research Visitor at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge).

Julian gave talks at numerous universities, including the University of Cambridge, the University of Cologne, La Trobe University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford, the University of Potsdam, and Utrecht University.

As part of his legal clerkship, Julian worked for the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague as well as a for a law firm specialising in international criminal law, migration law, and asylum law in Bonn.

Currently, the Volkswagen Foundation is funding a workshop on the impact of neutrality on research and knowledge production in legal scholarship that Julian is organising with Dr Sissy Katsoni at Ruhr University Bochum.