León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
León Castellanos-Jankiewicz is senior researcher at the Asser Institute for International and European Law in The Hague, and Academic Coordinator of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research. His work focuses on the human rights implications of irresponsible arms trade and access to remedies for gun victims through transnational civil litigation. He serves as supervisor of the International Law Clinic on Access to Justice for Gun Violence at the University of Amsterdam, which focuses on legal remedies available to gun victims across European jurisdictions. Castellanos-Jankiewicz also sits on the Advisory Committee of Global Action on Gun Violence, a U.S.-based non-profit working to improve gun control through litigation and policy advocacy. He publishes regularly in English and Spanish, and is also fluent in French. Previously, he was Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, where he worked with the Law Department. Castellanos-Jankiewicz holds a PhD in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Featured Publications
Publications
- European Defence & Security Law & Policy Quarterly | August 27, 2026.
- SIPRI | March 13, 2026.
- Euractiv | February 21, 2026.
- Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting | February 4, 2026.
- Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting | February 4, 2026.
- Asser Institute in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam International Law Clinics | July 3, 2025.
- Just Security | June 23, 2025.
- El País US | June 10, 2025.
- El País | June 10, 2025.
- George Washington International Law Review | Volume 56, No. 3
- Instituto Matías Romero | November 7, 2024.
- Asser Institute | September 16, 2024.
- VerfBlog | February 14, 2024.
- NRC | August 8, 2023.
- El País | July 31, 2023.
- El País | July 31, 2023.
- Viktoria Schmidt and Nada Ben Yahia) | July 28, 2023.
- Verfassungsblog (with Melanie Schneider) | May 19, 2023.
- Just Security | 2023
- Agenda Estado de Derecho | 2023
- ASIL Insights (with Leila Nadya Sadat) | 2022
- Just Security (with Kaya van der Horst) | 2022
- Just Security | 2021
- Just Security | 2020
- Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica | 2020