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• Part 1: Analysis of the conditions prevailing in Afar Region
• The institutional backdrop of Ada: the traditional justice delivery system of the Afar people
• Analysis of finding: why the formal criminal justice system is alleged to fail to provide closure due to problems related to delay, trust worthiness, etc.
• Recommendations
• Part II: Analysis of the condition prevailing in the Amhara Region
• The institutional backdrop of the traditional justice delivery system generally obtaining in the Amhara Region
• Recommendations
• Samples of interviews.

• The justiciability of socio-economic rights in Ethiopia / Dr. Mesenbet Assefa
• The right of IDPs to get compensation for property lost or damaged during displacement in Ethiopia: the practice in Dire Dawa City / Firaol Ofga Binagde
• Recognition of a right to safe, clean, health and sustainable environment as human rights by the UNHRC: significance and implications / Dr. Mellese Damtie.

• Ethiopia and its legal system : the context
• Arbitration agreement : validity, lapse and interpretation
• Arbitrability
• The normative basis for decision on the merits and procedural conduct of arbitration : the extent of party autonomy
• Kompetenz-Kompetenz and separability
• Judicial review of arbitral awards
• Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards
• The institutional setting for international commercial arbitration

This book is the first-ever to explore commercial arbitration in the Ethiopian context. Alternative conflict resolution mechanisms are nothing new to the country: arbitration as a dispute settlement mechanism by which a third party issues a binding decision on a dispute between two or more parties by exercising the jurisdictional mandate conferred on it by the parties themselves was established with the adoption of the Civil Code in 1960. This pioneering book evaluates the extent to which Ethiopia's laws and institutions allow disputing parties to effectively reap the benefits of international commercial arbitration. It interprets the relevant legislation and attempts to bridge the gaps in it, in order to help lawyers, arbitrators, arbitral institutions, academics and judges to understand and apply it. It also helps parties seeking to complete international transactions pertaining to Ethiopia make the right choice regarding conflict resolution.
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• Introduction
• The decision to prosecute core crimes : contexts and contents
• The decisions to prosecute : possible motivations
• The decisions to prosecute : who should be brought to justice?
• The crime of genocide in Ethiopian Law
• The crime of genocide in Ethiopian trials : elements of the crime
• War crimes in Ethiopia : law and practice
• Punishment and sentencing of core crimes in Ethiopia
• Conclusion

Tadesse Simie Metekia's Prosecution of Core Crimes in Ethiopia offers an in-depth analysis of core crimes trials in Ethiopia within the broader frame of international criminal law. This book is a result of an unprecedented data collection, a meticulous exploration of relevant national and international norms and case laws, as well as a full engagement with the existing literature on the domestic application of international criminal law. A comparative examination of the actual trials and the manner in which Ethiopia set prosecutions of core crimes in motion, Metekia's book is a significant achievement in terms of furthering academic knowledge and of contributing to the wider policy debates on international criminal justice and on the role of states in prosecuting atrocities.
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A biography of Šefarāw Woldemikāʼél an Ethiopian lawyer and first Minister of Justice

• Introduction / Susanne Epple
• Towards widening the constitutional space for customary justice systems in Ethiopia / Getachew Assefa
• The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and African societies / Karl-Heinz Kohl
• Understanding customary laws in the context of legal pluralism / Gebre Yntiso
• The handling of homicide in the context of legal pluralism : cooperation between government and customary institutions in the Gamo highlands / Temechegn Gutu
• The interplay of customary and formal legal systems among the Tulama Oromo : cooperation and competition / Melaku Abera
• Federal Sharia courts in Addis Ababa : their administration and the application of law in the light of recent developments / Mohammed Abdo
• Use and abuse of the "right to consent" : forum shopping between shimgilinna and state courts among the Amhara of Ankober, northcentral Ethiopia / Desalegn Amsalu
• Local strategies to maintain cultural integrity : the vernacularization of state law among the Bashada and Hamar of southern Ethiopia / Susanne Epple
• Legal pluralism and Protestant Christianity : from fine to forgiveness in an Aari community / Julian Sommerschuh --- Kontract : a hybrid form of law among the Sidama / Muradu Abdo
• Legal pluralism and emerging legal hybridity : interactions between the customary, state and religious law among the Siltie of southern Ethiopia / Kairedin Tezera
• A matter of perspective : of transfers, switching, and cross-cutting legal procedures : juridical processes among Oromo and Amhara, East Shewa / Andrea Nicolas
• When parallel justice systems lack mutual recognition : negative impacts on the resolution of criminal cases among the Borana Oromo / Aberra Degefa
• Combatting infanticide in Bashada and Hamar : the complexities behind a 'harmful traditional practice' in southern Ethiopia / Susanne Epple
• Clashing values : the 2015 conflict in Hamar district of South Omo Zone, southern Ethiopia / Yohannes Yitbarek

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of negotiation, and their strategic application of law can lead to unwanted confusion, but also to sustainable conflict resolution, innovative new procedures and hybrid norms. The book thus generates important knowledge on the conditions necessary for stimulating a cooperative co-existence of different legal systems.
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• Introduction
• Incitement to ethnic hatred in Ethiopia and freedom of expression / Asmelash Yohannes Teklu
• Extending voting rights to the Ethiopian diaspora : towards institutionalising diaspora political participation in Ethiopia / Teguadda Alebachew
• The right to cross-examination and witness protection in Ethiopia : a comparative study / Tadesse Melaku
• The need to accommodate the basic rights of ethno-national minorities in the Oromia Regional State of Federal Ethiopia / Sisay Mengistie Addisu
• Assessing the right to property, eviction and compensation in Ethiopia vis-à-vis international human rights law / Zerihun Yimer Geleta
• Cultural legitimisation of human rights : the case of the Guraghe ethno-cultural community in Ethiopia / Sisay Knife
• Legal empowerment of women through property rights in Ethiopia / Tesfaye Abate Abebe
• Ensuring the compatibility of the Ethiopian law on legal capacity with Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRDP) / Mehreteab G. Ghebregergs
• The right to mental health : a critical look at the state of human rights of the mentally ill in Ethiopia / Wondwossen Wakene Frew
• Exploring tax incentive mechanisms to strengthen the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the private workforce in Ethiopia / Gebrehiwot Hadush and Biniam Mekonen
• From 'rights in law' to 'rights in action' : towards an effective remedy for human rights violations through constitutional complaint procedures in Ethiopia / Yemane Kass Hailu
• Enforcement of constitutional bills of rights in the regional states of Ethiopia / Mekonnen Fisseha and Gebrehiwot Hadush
• Assessing the Ethiopian House of Federation in the light of the exhaustion of the local remedies rule under the African Charter / Mulu Beyene Kidanemariam

This edited volume on Implementation of International Human Rights Commitments and Implications on Ongoing Legal Reforms in Ethiopia addresses key themes of contemporary interest focused on identifying the gaps between Ethiopia's human rights commitments and the practical problems associated with the realisation of human rights goals. Political and legal challenges affecting implementation at the domestic levels continue in Ethiopian - the nature and complexity of which have been thoroughly expounded in this volume. This edition uncovers the key challenges involving civil and political rights, socio-economic rights and cultural and institutional dimensions of the implementation of human rights in Ethiopia - while the country is absorbed in legal and political reforms.
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• Background: Child rights, international law and national measures of harmonization
• Ethiopia: Overview of policy and legislative initiatives in harmonization and issues of institutional mandate
• The conceptual framework of a "comprehensive child law"
• A comparative presentation of comprehensive child law regimes abroad
• The policy framework on the rights of children in Ethiopia
• The legal framework on the rights of children in Ethiopia and issues of harmonization
• Ethiopia's policy, legal and institutional structures on the rights of children: conclusions and recommendations
• Child rights and Ethiopia's federal politic: Additional challenges relating to jurisdictional issues in comprehensive law and legislature reform
• The way forward: Feasibility of the enactment of a comprehensive child law in Ethiopia.

• General introduction
• Understanding gender
• Moving towards guaranteeing women's rights, global perspectives
• Women in Ethiopia
• Gender equality
• Gender and family law
• Violence against women
• Overview of some other specific human rights of women.

• Prefatory part
• Historical survey of the Derg regime and the infamous red terror
• The Ethiopian legal framework for the prosecution of crimes under international law
• The Ethiopian approach to reckon with Derg crimes : the road to the creation of the special public prosecutor's office
• Criminal accountability for the Derg crimes : prosecution of politicide
• Stocktaking of the red terror trials : is it an approach with emulating?
• Concluding remarks.

This book investigates the road map or the transitional justice mechanisms that theEthiopian government chose to confront the gross human rights violations perpetratedunder the 17 years' rule of the Derg, the dictatorial regime that controlled state powerfrom 1974 to 1991. Furthermore, the author extensively examines the prosecution ofpoliticide or genocide against political groups in Ethiopia. Dealing with the violent conflict, massacres, repressions and other mass atrocities ofthe past is necessary, not for its own sake, but to clear the way for a new beginning.In other words, ignoring gross human rights violations and attempting to close thechapter on an oppressive dictatorial past by choosing to let bygones be bygones, is nolonger a viable option when starting on the road to a democratic future. For unaddressedatrocities and a sense of injustice would not only continue to haunt a nation butcould also ignite similar conflicts in the future. So the question is what choices are available to the newly installed government whenconfronting the evils of the past. There are a wide array of transitional mechanismsto choose from, but there is no "one size fits all" mechanism. Of all the transitionaljustice mechanisms, namely truth commissions, lustration, amnesty, prosecution, and reparation, the Ethiopian government chose prosecution as the main means fordealing with the horrendous crimes committed by the Derg regime. One of the formidable challenges for transitioning states in dealing with the crimes offormer regimes is an inadequate legal framework by which to criminalize and punishegregious human rights violations. With the aim of examining whether or not Ethiopiahas confronted this challenge, the book assesses Ethiopia's legal framework regardingboth crimes under international law and individual criminal responsibility. This book will be of great relevance to academics and practitioners in the areas ofgenocide studies, international criminal law and transitional justice. Students in thefields of international criminal law, transitional justice and human rights will alsofind relevant information on the national prosecution of politicide in particular andthe question of confronting the past in general. Marshet Tadesse Tessema is Assistant Professor of the Law School, College of Law andGovernance at Jimma University in Ethiopia, and Postdoctoral Fellow of the SouthAfrican-German Centre, University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
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• Articulating Ethiopia's current tax policy: sources and fundamental objectives / Taddese Lencho
• Ethipia's tax treatment of expatriate academic staff: study of the legal regime and practice in the public higher education institutions / Amanuel Assefa
• Tax evasion and avoidance in the tax incentive regime in Ethiopia: the law and practice / Bereket Fetene
• Taxation of directors' remuneration in Ethiopia / Yitayal Mekonnen
• Standard assessment of small businesses in Addis Ababa City: legal and practical problems in focus / Zerihun Asegid
• Divided over dividends: the recent controversies over the meaning and scope of dividends and lessons from comparative experience / Taddese Lencho and Hanna Arayaselassie.

• Volume
• 1. Papers presented at the seminar series of the School of Law, December 7, 2015 to February 15, 2016 / editors: Mekete Bekele, Yazachew Belew --

• Preface
• 1. History of Land Tenures in Ethiopia
• 2. The Current Legal Regimes of Land Governance in Ethiopia
• 3. Tensions between de jure and de facto Transfer of Land Rights in Ethiopia: Informal Land Deals vs. the Command of the Statute Laws
• 4. Land Reform Policy and Laws in Ethiopia: Towards Responsible Land Governance
• 5. Land Governance and Human Rights in Ethiopia
• 6. Land Governance and Environmental Protection in Ethiopia
• 7. Land Policy Options.
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Land rights in general and transferability of land rights in particular have been a mind boggling subject for intellectuals, donors, and politicians in Ethiopia. The question of land and the rights attached to it has been a cause for political turbulence and instability in the nation as well. It is important to study the challenges of land policies pursued by successive regimes and the historical evolutionary course leading to the current land policy. The deadlocks on land policy issues in Ethiopia might superficially seem to hinge on preferences of which land governance system or legal regime must the nation adopt or adapt. However, land issues in Ethiopia are more than economic factors or principles of efficiency and preference of ownership systems This book explores the limitations of the current land system in Ethiopia, by assessing and analyzing the laws and policies pertaining to land and transferability of rights over land. This includes an evaluation of existing legislation against the background of the history of land use in Ethiopia and ensuing political struggles.
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• History of land tenures in Ethiopia
• The current legal regimes of land governance in Ethiopia
• Tensions between de jure and de facto transfer of land rights in Ethiopia : informal land deals vs. the command of the statute laws
• Land reform policy and laws in Ethiopia : towards responsible land governance
• Land governance and human rights in Ethiopia
• Land governance and environmental protection in Ethiopia
• Land policy options.

Land rights in general and transferability of land rights in particular have been a mind boggling subject for intellectuals, donors, and politicians in Ethiopia. The question of land and the rights attached to it has been a cause for political turbulence and instability in the nation as well. It is important to study the challenges of land policies pursued by successive regimes and the historical evolutionary course leading to the current land policy. The deadlocks on land policy issues in Ethiopia might superficially seem to hinge on preferences of which land governance system or legal regime must the nation adopt or adapt. However, land issues in Ethiopia are more than economic factors or principles of efficiency and preference of ownership systems This book explores the limitations of the current land system in Ethiopia, by assessing and analyzing the laws and policies pertaining to land and transferability of rights over land. This includes an evaluation of existing legislation against the background of the history of land use in Ethiopia and ensuing political struggles.
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• Background to the Oromo
• Violence against women in Oromia
• Formal legal framework in Ethiopia and the Oromia Region
• Formal legal protection of women's rights : effectiveness on the ground
• Inclusion of customary law in the Constitution
• Oromo customary laws and alternative legal systems
• Sharia law and women's rights
• The Gadaa system
• Use of customary and formal courts by Oromo women
• The status and roles of women in Oromia
• Gender norms and cultural systems
• Limitations of customary law under the Gadaa system
• Shortcomings of customary law in cases of violence against women
• Marriage, divorce and inheritance.

• Research background and methodology
• Land rights in Ethiopia
• Conceptualizing expropriation
• Expropriation procedure
• Public purpose
• Valuation and compensation during expropriation
• Conclusions and recommendations.

This thesis provides a new approach to the Ethiopian Land Law debate. The basic argument made in this thesis is that even if the Ethiopian Constitution provides and guarantees common ownership of land (together with the state) to the people, this right has not been fully realized whether in terms of land accessibility, enjoyability, and payment of fair compensation in the event of expropriation. Expropriation is an inherent power of the state to acquire land for public purpose activities. It is an important development tool in a country such as Ethiopia where expropriation remains the only method to acquire land. Furthermore, the two preconditions of payment of fair compensation and existence of public purpose justifications are not strictly followed in Ethiopia. The state remains the sole beneficiary of the process by capturing the full profit of land value, while paying inadequate compensation to those who cede their land by expropriation. Secondly, the broader public purpose power of the state in expropriating the land for unlimited activities puts the property owners under imminent risk of expropriation.
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• Introduction
• Designing local government for development and accommodation of diversity
• Local administration, development, and ethnicity in Ethiopia : historical perspective
• Decentralisation within Ethiopia's federation : constitutional basis and political motives
• Decentralisation and development in Ethiopia : local autonomy
• Decentralisation and development in Ethiopia : central supervision and inter-governmental co-operation
• Decentralisation and accommodation of intra-regional ethnic minorities in Ethiopia
• Conclusion.

This study inquires into whether the regional states are discharging their constitutional obligation of creating adequately empowered local government. It will attempt to do so by examining the decentralisation programme of four of the nine regional states of the Ethiopian federation.

• Introduction: The nexus between human rights and development from international and Ethiopian perspectives / Eva Brems, Christophe van der Beken and Solomon Abay Yimer
• The right to development in Africa / Koen de Feyter
• Human rights and development in Africa : assessing COMESA's experience / Adolphe Kilomba Sumaili
• The right to development in Ethiopia / Abdi Jibril Ali
• Ethiopia : development with or without freedom? / Assefa Fiseha Yeibyio
• Addressing the rights of indigenous peoples in the development of Ethiopia : a difficult compromise or a compelling necessity? / Dorothee Cambou
• Foreign direct investment in Ethiopian land : the good, the bad, and the lessons to be learned / Genny Ngende
• Market development and human rights protection : enforcing the UN guiding principles on business and human rights in Ethiopia / Solomon Abay Yimer
• The quest for effective remedies in the home states of transnational corporations : legal realism versus legal reality / Lieselot Verdonck
• The role of grants in local development efforts : case study on local autonomy and accountability from a human rights-based approach in Ethiopia / Solomon Negussie Abesha
• Environmental rights and investment in Ethiopia : a strenuous relationship / Zerihun Yimer Geleta
• Poverty and human rights : a European perspective / Laurens Lavrysen
• The Human Rights Commission of Ethiopia and issues of forced evictions : a case-oriented study of its practice / Mohammed Abdo Mohammed
• Gender equality, women's rights, and environmental sustainability : the case of climate change / Nicky Broeckhoven.

The papers by international and Ethiopian scholars included in Human Rights and Development: Legal Perspectives from and for Ethiopia focus on the interconnectedness between the protection of human rights and the achievement of development. The book adds to the international debate by providing a unique insight into the Ethiopian perspective on the nexus between rights and development and by discussing how this nexus manifests itself in the Ethiopian context. The comparative and international frameworks and examples constitute a valuable resource for the debate on human rights and development in Ethiopia, which is currently taking place in the context of the developmental state approach pursued by the Ethiopian government.
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• Analytischer Rahmen zum Rechtspluralismus in Äthiopen
• Entwicklung des De-jure-Status der Muslime und Scharia-Gerichtsbarkeit in Äthiopien
• Charakteristika der Scharia-Gerichtsbarkeit
• Islamisches Recht und staatliches Recht im Spannungsverhältnis.

• 1. 1434-1974 / Aberra Jembere
• 2. 1974-2009 / Aberra Jembere, Woldetensay Woldemelak.

"This report documents how government security forces are forcing communities to relocate from their traditional lands through violence and intimidation, threatening their entire way of life with no compensation or choice of alternative livelihoods. Government officials have carried out arbitrary arrests and detentions, beatings, and other violence against residents of the Lower Omo valley who questioned or resisted the development plans."--Publisher's website.