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UCL Faculty Member
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Dr Berihun Gebeye is a Lecturer in Law in the Faculty of Laws, University College London and a Visiting Professor at the Central European University. His research and teaching center on public law with a particular focus on constitutional law, human rights, and international law. He uses theoretical, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches and materials to study the law and politics of constitutional government.
Prior to joining UCL Laws, he was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism held by Prof. Dr. Ran Hirschl at the University of Göttingen, and a Global Teaching Fellow at the University of Yangon in Myanmar. He held visiting positions at the Columbia Law School, the Center for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
He is Book Review Editor of Constitutional Studies, Editor of the German Law Journal, on the Advisory Board of Constituições: Center on Constitutionalism and Comparativism, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK, and is an elected member of the Council of the International Society of Public Law. He was a member of the 2022 Annual Meeting Committee of the American Society of International Law and a Columnist of the ICONnect Blog, A blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. Currently, with Professor Richard Albert, he is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of African Constitutions (under contract with Oxford University Press).
Representative publications:
A Theory of African Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press 2021)
“The Identity of the Constitutional Subject and the Construction of Constitutional Identity: Lessons from Africa,” 1 Comparative Constitutional Studies 1: 29-50 (2023)
“Global Constitutionalism and Cultural Diversity: The Emergence of Jurisgenerative Constitutionalism in Africa,” 10 Global Constitutionalism 1: 40-71 (2021)