Girmachew Alemu

Education attended

Hubert Humphrey Fulbright Fellowship (2012-2013), School of Law, University of Minnesota.

Ph.D. (2008) Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

M.A. (2001) Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

LL.B. (1997) School of Law, Addis Ababa University

Research Interest

• Legal Pluralism
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
• Human Rights
• Legal Theory
• Constitutional Law
• Research Methods
• African Regional Organizations

Significant

awards/recognition

• Visiting Scholar, Free University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center, September 2014
• Hubert Humphrey Fulbright Fellowship, United States Department of State, August 2012-July 2013
• Norwegian Government Scholarship for Ph.D. study (2004-2008)
• British Council Research Stipend for research visit to the Oxford University (June-September 2003)

Publications

Books

• Ethiopian Human Rights Handbook (Centre for Human Rights, Addis Ababa University), January 2013, Co-Author.
• Handbook on the Rights of the Child in Ethiopia(Centre for Human Rights, Addis Ababa University), September 2012, Co-Author.
• Essays on Environmental Rights, Ethiopian Human Rights Law Series, (Volume 4, Addis Ababa University Press), July 2012, Editor.
• A Study of the African Union’s Right of Intervention against Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes(Wolf Legal Publishers, The Netherlands), March 2011.
• The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged(James Currey, United Kingdom) March 2009, Co-Editor.
• The Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects, Ethiopian Human Rights Law Series, (Volume 2, Addis Ababa University Press), December 2008, Co-Editor.