Professor Zeray Yihdego

Personal Chair

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 ), 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

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

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

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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