Personal Chair
- About
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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 widely published in international watercourses, arms trade, humanitarian, peace and security and African Union laws. He held 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 also held visiting professorial positions with Halle University, Germany and the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS), India. Prof Yihdego collaborates with hydrologists, economists, political scientists and others. He has been involved in funded (and unfunded) interdisciplinary projects, including in the 5.5 million Euro Horizon 2020 multidisciplinary research project concerning the governance of the Zambezi and Omo-Turkana river basins (details here http://dafne-project.eu/), and in the £583, 349 UK&RI funded Horn of Africa governance project. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law (EtYIL, Springer), member of the World Bank’s Water Law Working Group (WL-WG) and served as a member of the UN Expert Group on the Firearms Protocol which supplements the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime 2000 for over a decade. Prof Yihdego is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and was a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, a Tutor at Durham University and a Part-time Lecturer in Ethiopia.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (ACCPIL), member and (founding) former co-director
- School of Law Operational Executive, Member
- School Internationalisation Committe, Member
- External Memberships
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- Editor-in-Chief, Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law (EtYIL, Springer)
- World Bank Water Law Group, member
- International Water Resources Association (IWRA), member
- Funding and publication reviewer for multiple agencies and journals and publishers, including Oxford University Press
- Community Link Childcare, Aberdeen Charity, Trustee
- External Examiner, Oxford Brookes University
- United Nations Expert Group on the Firearms Protocol which supplements the UN Convention against Transnational ORganised Crime 2000, former member and consultant
- 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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Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law 2017
Vol. 2, Springer, Cham, Switherland. 238 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksTowards Resolving Our Development, Integration and Security Challenges Through International Law
Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law 2017. Yihdego, Z., Desta, M. G., Hailu, M. B., Merso, F. (eds.). Springer, pp. 3-9, 7 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90887-8_1
The Grand Ethiopian renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin: Implications for Tranboundary Water Cooperation
Routledge, London. 242 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351661560
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315160122
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Identification of Water Governance Structures in the Zambezi River Basin: A Water-Energy-Food Nexus Perspective
Commissioned by European Commission. European Commission. 63 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsRight process in sharing Nile waters’
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesThe fairness dilemma in sharing Nile waters
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and WebsitesThe Fairness ‘Dilemma’ in Sharing the Nile Waters: What Lessons from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for International Law?
International Water Law , vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1-80Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWebinar: The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam - A Catalyst for Cooperation on the Nile
Webinar-IWRAContributions to Specialist Publications: Special IssuesA Multi-disciplinary Analysis of the Risks and Opportunities of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam for Wider Cooperation in the Nile
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin: Implications for Transboundary Cooperation. Yihdego, Z., Rieu-Clarke, A., Cascão, A. E. (eds.). Earthscan, pp. 1-14, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEthiopian Yearbook of International Law 2016
Vol. 2016, Springer. 355 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55898-1
- [ONLINE] Rebalances the narrative of international law with a predominantly African perspectiveSpecial focus on the role of international law in development, equity and equalityClose engagement with, and participation of, international law practitionersClosely examines the latest developments in international law affecting Africa and developing countries at largeBrings together legal expertise from both the global South and North