Alemante Selassie

Job Title

Associate Professor of Law

Organization

William and Mary School of Law

Country

Ethiopia (currently in USA)

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

Ethnic Federalism: Its Promise and Pitfalls for Africa, 28 YALE J. INT. L. 51 (2003).

Ethnic Identity and Constitutional Design for Africa, 29 STANFORD J. INT. L. 1 (1992).

Problems and Prospects of the Transition to Democracy in Ethiopia, 1 WILLIAM AND
MARY BILL OF RIGHTS JOURNAL 205 (1992).

Valuation Issues in Applying Fraudulent Transfer Law to Leveraged Buyouts, 32
BOSTON COLLEGE L. REV. 377 (1991).

Inverse Liability of the State of Wisconsin for a de facto "Temporary Taking as
a Result of an Administrative Decision: Zinn v. State, 1984 Wis. L. Rev. 1431.

Paper presented to The World Bank on “Problems of Governments in Ethiopia”
(January 2006).

"Democracy and the Building of Constitutional Orders in Africa," Paper presented at
the Symposium on "Integrating Africa into the Global Economy" (October 1996,
Cornell University).

"Recent Constitutional Changes in Ethiopia: An Appraisal," Paper presented at the
"Forum on Africa" (October 1996, Norfolk University).

Ethiopia and the Dangers of Social and State Disintegration: An Appraisal of the
Experiment with Constitutional Change (March 1996, Howard University).

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