Andrew Friedman

Job Title

Research Fellow for Sub-Saharan Africa

Organization

Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law

Country

United States

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

Publications
Transitional Justice and Local Ownership: A Framework for the Protection of Human Rights, 46 Akron Law Review 727 (2013)

Kagame’s Rwanda: Can an Authoritarian Development Model be Squared with Democracy and Human Rights?, 14 Oregon Review of Int’l Law 253 (2012)

Beyond Cherry-Picking: Selection Criteria for the Use of Foreign Law in Domestic Constitutional Jurisprudence, 44 Suffolk University Law Review 873 (2011)

Flexible Arbitration for the Developing World: Piero Foresti and the Future of Bilateral Investment Treaties in the Global South, 7 BYU Int’l Law and Management Review 37 (2011)

Dead Hand Constitutionalism: Honduras and the Danger of Eternity Clauses in New Democracies, 4 Mexican Law Review 77 (2011)

Pragmatism over Idealism: Public Interest Advocacy in the People's Republic of China and the Importance of Collaboration, 27 Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of Int’l Law and Affairs 97 (2011)

Representative Presentations
Drafting for the Future: The Trouble with Constitutional Privacy Provisions and the Speed of Technological Advancement, Selected Presentation, New York Law School, Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism, (November 2014).

What can Corporations do when they cannot Boycott? Renewing the Sullivan Principles for States with Mineral Wealth.
 Selected Presentation, University of Minnesota College of Law, American Society of International Law: Midwest Interest Group Workshop (September 2014)
 Selected Presentation, West Virginia University College of Law, Business and Human Rights: Moving Forward, Looking Back (September 2013)
Transitional Justice and Local Ownership: A Framework for the Protection of Human Rights, Selected Presentation, Albany Law School, Africa Interest Group: American Society for International Law, Africa and International Law: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (April 2012)

Kagame’s Rwanda: Can an Authoritarian Development Model be squared with Democracy and Human Rights? , Selected Presentation, University of Oregon, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Third World Approaches to International Law: Capitalism and the Common Good, (October 2011)

Beyond Cherry-Picking: Selection Criteria for the Use of Foreign Law in Domestic Constitutional Jurisprudence, Selected Presentation, African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, Annual Conference, (February 2011)

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