<span class="vcard">León Castellanos-Jankiewicz</span>

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz (@leoncastjan) 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. He is also on LinkedIn.

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Stone wall with the flag of Mexico and Bullet holes
A man and a woman stand at a microphone, holding a sign that says "March for Our Lives" and a poster of their deceased child. Behind the couple, many protestors who also hold signs sit on the steps of the Texas Capitol building.
Sign reading "WARNING: WEAPONS/AMMO ILLEGAL IN MEXICO". White sign with yellow "WARNING" header, set against dusty road.
Relatives of missing people take part in a massive protest against violence, crime and the disappearance of people, in Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico, on May 4, 2018.

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