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Personal Chair
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- Email Address
- zeray.yihdego@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272438
- School/Department
- School of Law
Biography
Professor Yihdego has joined Aberdeen Law School in January 2013. He studied for an LLM. and a PhD. at Cambridge and Durham Universities respectively. He also earned an LLB (Distinction) from Ethiopia. He is a Co-director of the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law. He held (2015/16) a Visiting Research Fellow position with the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford and a Senior Visiting Member at Linacre College, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the UN Expert Group on the Firearms Protocol which supplements the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime 2000. In addition to serving as an expert Dr Yihdego also acts as a consultant for the Vienna based UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Before joining Aberdeen Law School he was a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, a Tutor at Durham University and a Part-time Lecturer in Ethiopia. He has been researching and publishing on various aspects of public international law with emphasis on (conventional) arms control/trade, international humanitarian law, peace and security, democratic governance, development and human rights and the law of international watercourses issues relating to Africa. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law (EtYIL, Springer) and serves as a monograph and textbook reviewer for Hart, Routledge, Brill and Oxford University press and article reviewer for a number of international journals. Professor Yihdego participates as a Principal Investigator in a 5.5 million Euro EU funded multidisciplinary research project concerning the governance of the Zambezi and Omo river basins (details here http://dafne-project.eu/) and collaborates on various projects with law experts, economists, hydrologists, environmental and political scientists and policy experts that are working in Africa, Europe and the US.
External Memberships
- Member of the United Nations Expert Group on the Firearms Protocol which supplements the UN Convention against Transnational ORganised Crime 2000.
- Consultant, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
-Editor-in-Chief, Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law (EtYIL, Springer)
- External Examiner, Brunel University, School of Law.
-external examiner, Dundee University, School of Law.
- Research
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Research Overview
Dr Yihdego is interested in supervising research students in general international law, international humanitarian law, arms control law, peace and security law, African Union law and international watercourses law.
- Publications
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Submission to the Inquiry on the UK’s Legal Justification for the Iraq War and Lord Goldsmith’s Legal Advice
. 12 pages.Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE] Submission to a public Inquiry
Somalia at the Crossroads: Options for the World Community
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesSomalia at the crossroads: options for the world community
JuristContributions to Journals: ArticlesSomalia at the crossroads: options for the world community
JuristContributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesThe EU's role in restraining the unrestrained trade in conventional weapons
German Law Journal , vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 281-303Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBook Review, Konig, Stoll, Roben & Luck edn. International Law Today: New Challenges and the Need for Reform? ((Springer: Berlin, 2008)
Global Law BooksContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesDarfur and humanitarian law: the protection of civilians and civilian objects
Journal of Conflict and Security Law, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 37-69Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/krp016
Arms Sales and Parliamentary Accountability: the Role of the Quadripartite Committee
Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 661-680Contributions to Journals: ArticlesArms trade and public controls: the right to information perspective
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 379-394Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe UK arms export regime: progress and challenges
Public Law, vol. 2008, no. 3, pp. 546-565Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Role of Security Council Arms Embargoes in Stemming Destabilizing Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW): Recent Developments and Challenges
Netherlands International Law Review, vol. 54 , no. 1, pp. 115-132Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165070X07001155
Ethiopia's Military Action Against the Union of Islamic Courts and Others in Somalia: Some Legal Implications
International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 666-676Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.jstor.org/stable/4498095
The Arms Trade and International Law
Vol. 15, Hart, Oxford, Oxford. 357 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksIrresponsible Arms Transfers and Humanitarian Norms: The Principles of Humanity and Public Conscience Perspective
Journal of Human Security, vol. 2, no. 3Contributions to Journals: Articles