Mr Adem Kassie Abebe
LLB (Jimma, Ethiopia), LLM (Pretoria)
Researcher, Tutor and LLD Candidate
Office 3.1.1, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
Tel: + 27 (12) 420 4306
Fax: +27 (0) 12 362 5125
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Research Interests
Constitutional Law and Judicial Review, African Human Rights Law, Human Rights Litigation and Public Interest Law, Minority Rights, Human rights enforcement mechanisms

Current Projects

• Oxford Constitutions Online, Ethiopian Country reporter
• African Human Rights Moot Court Competition
• Glossary of violations of international human rights law and international human rights law
• Model Access to Information Law for Africa

Editorial Positions

• Student editor, African Human Rights Law Journal

Publications

2012

• Litigating constitutional human rights in Ethiopia’ (2012) Ethiopian Bar Review (forthcoming)
• 'The making of the Ethiopian Constitution, constitutionalism and constitutional reform’ in Morris Mbondenyi and Steve Odero Constitutionalism, Constitution Making and Constitutional Reform in Africa: Contemporary Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa (forthcoming)
• 'Limitations to the rights of indigenous peoples in Africa: A model for balancing national interest in development with the rights of indigenous peoples?’ (2012) 3 African Journal of International and Comparative Law (forthcoming)
• Abdication of responsibility or justifiable fear of illegitimacy? The death penalty, gay rights, and the role of public opinion in judicial determinations in Africa (2012) 60(3) American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming);

2011

• ‘Towards more liberal standing rules to enforce constitutional rights in Ethiopia’ 2010 (10)2 African Journal of Human Rights
• ‘Limiting limitations of human rights under the Ethiopian Constitution’ (2011) 4 Ethiopian Constitutional Law Series, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

2010

• The power of indigenous peoples to veto development activities: The right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) (2010)
• ‘Human rights under the Ethiopian Constitution: An overview’ (2010) 3 (3) Journal of African and International Law 639

2009

• 'Is there a need for large scale public participation in the Kenyan Constitutional Review Process', Field Trip Report