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Peer-Reviewed Articles

The Identity of the Constitutional Subject and the Construction of Constitutional Identity: Lessons from Africa

Comparative Constitutional Studies Vol 1(1): 29-50(2023)

Global Constitutionalism and Cultural Diversity: The Emergence of Jurisgenerative Constitutionalism in Africa

Global Constitutionalism, Vol. 10(1): 40-71 (2021)

Federal Theory and Federalism in Africa

Verfassung und Recht in Übersee/World Comparative Law Vol. 53(2): 95-115 (2020)

Citizenship and Human Rights in the Ethiopian Federal Republic

Ethiopian Constitutional and Public Law Series Vol. 10: 9-44 (2019)

The Janus Face of Legal Pluralism for the Rule of Law Promotion in Sub-Saharan Africa

Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines Vol. 53(2): 337-353 (2019)

The Potential Role of Directive Principles of State Policies for Transformative Constitutionalism in Africa

Africa Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law Vol. 2017 (1): 1-34 (2017)

Decoding Legal Pluralism in Africa

Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law Vol. 49 (2): 228-249 (2017).

Legal Theory in Africa: Between Legal Centralism and Legal Pluralism

Queen Mary Law Journal Vol. 8: 37-47 (2017)

Toward Making a Proper Space for the Individual in the Ethiopian Constitution

Human Rights Review Vol. 18 (4): 439-458 (2017)

The Potential of Directive Principles of State Policy for the Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights: A Comparative Study of Ethiopia and India

Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law Vol. 10 (5): 1-63 (2016)

Unsustain the Sustainable: An Evaluation of the Legal and Policy Interventions for Pastoral Development in Ethiopia

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice Vol. 6 (2) (2016)

The Legal Regime of Corruption in Ethiopia: An Assessment from International Law Perspective

Oromia Law Journal Vol. 4 (2): 73-124 (2015)

Book Chapters

Syncretic Authoritarianism

in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism, Cora Chan, Madhav

In sla, Benjamin Liebman, and Mark Tushnet (eds) (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) 

Syncretic Constitutionalism

In Edward Elgar Research

Handbook on Constitutionalism and Legal Theory, Jaclyn Neo and Yaniv Roznai (eds) (Edward Elgar forthcoming)

The Four Faces of Ethiopian Federalism

In Research Handbook on Comparative Federalism, Erika Arban (eds), (Edward Elgar forthcoming).

Towards a Constitution of Peace in Ethiopia: Issues of Process and Substance

In Ethiopia at Constitutional Crossroads: In Search of a Fair and Durable Settlement, Adno Addis, Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam, Adem Kassie Abebe, and Abduletif Kedir Idris (eds) (Tsehai Publishers 2025) 

Judicial Review and Presidential Elections in Africa

In Judicial Review and Electoral Law in a Global Perspective, Christina Fasone, Edmondo Mostacci and Graziella Romeo (eds) (Hart Publishing, 2024).

Ethiopia: Legal Response to Covid-19

(with ZA Ayele, YT Fessha and B Dessalegn), In The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19, Jeff King et al (eds) (Oxford University Press 2024).

Law and Development

(with Markus Böckenförde), In The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology, Marie-Claire Foblets, Mark Goodale, Maria Sapignoli and Olaf Zenker eds, (Oxford University Press 2022).

The Right to Peaceful Assembly

In Rule of Law Handbook for Civil Society Organizations (Konrad- Adenauer-Stiftung Ltd, Myanmar, 2019)

Book review

Semahagn Gashu Abebe, The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation: Ethnicity, Ideology and Democracy in Ethiopia (Routledge 2014)

African Studies Quarterly Vol. 17 (4): 115-116 (2018)

Blogposts

The Relaunch of Constitutional Studies

Int’l J. Const. L. Blog, Jul. 8, 2025

Legal Syncretism: A New Frontier of Constitutional Studies

Frontiers of Socio-legal Studies, 02 October 2024

The Contingent Role of the Basic Structure Doctrine for Constitutionalism in Africa

ICONnect Blog, 28 October 2021

Self-determination without Democracy: The Curious Case of the Horn of Africa

ICONnect Blog, 28 July 2021

Transformative Constitutionalism and the Basic Structure Doctrine: A New Account from Kenya

ICONnect Blog, 26 May 2021

Beyond Term Limits: Restraining Chief Executives in Africa

ICONnect Blog, 24 March 2021

Why Ethiopia’s Crisis Needs a New Constitutional Settlement

ICONnect Blog, 24 November  2021

Ethiopia’s Continuing Constitutional Crisis

ICONnect Blog, 27 January 2021

Federalism without Constitutionalism?

IACL-AIDC Blog, 08 October 2020

Democracy is the Minimum Core for Ethiopians

Addis Standard, 24 June 2020

Deracializing (not Decolonizing) Ethiopian Studies

Addis Standard, 27 December 2017

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