Alemante Selassie
Associate Professor of Law
Email: [[agsela]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3841
Office location: Room 209
Areas of Specialization
Commercial Law; Comparative Law--African Law; Comparative Law--Constitutional Law; Contract Law; Debtor-Creditor Law; Law and Development; Remedies Law; Secured Transactions Law
Currently Teaching
Contracts; International Organizations; Law & Development; Public International Law
Representative Professional Activities and 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).
Scholarly 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.
