Alemante Selassie

Associate Professor of Law

Degrees

J.D., M.L.I., University of Wisconsin
LL.B., Haile Selassie I University

Areas of Specialization

Commercial Law; Comparative Law--African; Comparative Law--Constitutional; Contracts; Debtor-Creditor Law; Law and Development; Remedies; Secured Transactions.

Teaching This Coming Year (2008-2009)

Contracts, International Organizations, Public International Law

Representative Professional Activities & Achievements

Joined the faculty in 1987. Practiced law at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee. Served in various senior capacities in the Ethiopian Ministry of Land Reform for twelve years.

Author of articles in the Boston College Law Review, Stanford Journal of International Law, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Wisconsin Law Review, and the Yale Journal of International Law. Frequent panelist and presenter on topics of ethnic, African and human rights legal issues.

Recipient of the Walter L. Williams, Jr. Teaching Award in 2003. Member of the International Third World Legal Studies Association. Member of the Section on Africa for the Association of American Law Schools. Led the C.O.E.D.F. Delegation to the Congressional Task Force on Ethiopia and the Carter Center Talks on Ethiopia (1994 and 1995).

Professor Selassie's publications

Articles

Ethnic Federalsim: Its Promise and Pitfalls for Africa, 28 Yale J. Int'l L. 51 (2003).
Problems and Prospects of the Transition to Democracy in Ethiopia, 1 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 205 (1992).
Ethnic Identity and Constitutional Design for Africa, 29 Stan. J. Int'l L. 1 (1992)
Valuation Issues in Applying Fraudulent Transfer Law to Leveraged Buyouts, 32 B.C. L. Rev. 377 (1991).
Note, Inverse Liability of the State of Wisconsin for a de facto "Temporary Taking" as a Result of an Administrative Decision: Zinn v. State, 1984 Wis. L. Rev. 1431.

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