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Constitucionalismo Global E Diversidade Cultural: O Surgimento Do Constitucionalismo Jurisgenerativo Na África, Revista Direitos Fundamentais & Democracia , 30 (2) pp. 4-48 (2025).

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).

Women’s Rights and Legal Pluralism: A Case Study of the Ethiopian Somali Regional State, Women in Society Vol. 6 (2): 5-42 (2013). 

“Syncretic Authoritarianism” in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism,  Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Ben 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 publishing, forthcoming). 

“An Instrumental Theory of Federalism”, in The Law and Politics of Federalism, Erin F. Delaney (ed), 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, Adeno Addis, Adem Abebe, Kebadu Mekonnen, Abdulatif 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).

“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).

“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 2021). 

“The Right to Peaceful Assembly” in Rule of Law Handbook for Civil Society Organizations (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Ltd, Myanmar, 2019). 

The Relaunch of Constitutional Studies, ICONnect Blog, 08 July 2025. 

Legal Syncretism: A New Frontier of Constitutional Studies, Frontiers of Socio-legal Studies, 02 October 2024. 

Why Ethiopia’s Crisis Needs a New Constitutional Settlement, ICONnect Blog, 24 November 2021.

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.

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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