Education & Affiliations

B.A., LL.B. (First Class Honors), Macquarie University (Australia), 1980 LL.M., Yale Law School, 1983 J.S.D., Yale Law School, 1987

Academic Experience

• Visiting Professor, Passau University (Germany), 2017
• Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, 2011-2012
• Visiting Professor, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2009
• Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2004
• Professor, Tulane University School of Law, 1996-2001
• Visiting Professor, Cornell University School of Law, 1998-1999
• Associate Professor (tenured), Tulane University School of Law, 1993-1996

Overseas Experience

• Germany
• Australia
• Hong Kong
• Japan
• Ethiopia

Recent Publications

• 2022. “From a Nation of Citizens to a Nation of Nations: Citizenship with Depth”, 14, International Journal of Ethiopian Studies.
• 2022. “The Making of Strangers: Reflection of the Ethiopian Constitution, 38, Journal of Developing Societies.
• 2020. Dignity, Integrity and the Concept of a Person, 13 International Constitutional Law Journal 323
• 2018. Constitutional Preambles as Narratives of Peoplehood 12 Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law 125
• 2017. Genocide and Belonging: Processes of Imagining Communities, 38 University of Pennsylvania International Law Journal 1041
• 2015. Human Dignity in Comparative Constitutional Context: In Search of an Overlapping Consensus, 2 Journal of International and Comparative Law 1

Courses

International Communications Law International Human Rights Public International Law International Communications