Dr Legesse Mengie
Full time
Adelaide Law School
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Legesse is a constitutional law and public international law researcher. His research interests include comparative constitutional law, international trade law, and international investment law. He has published widely in these areas, taught courses at different universities in Ethiopia and Australia, and managed projects and services. Currently, he is a casual academic at the University of Adelaide and University of South Australia. His academic roles include teaching (at Adelaide Law School and UniSA Justice & Society) and research at the Institute for International Trade at The University of Adelaide.
In 2022, Legesse was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies). He has held various prestigious scholarships including Adelaide Scholarship International, Netherlands Government Scholarship, Open Society Foundation London Civil Society Scholar Award, Central European University Scholarship and UN International Law Fellowship. He holds LLB (Haramaya University), LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law (Central European University), LLM in International and European Public Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam), and PhD in Law (the University of Adelaide). He is a member of national, regional, and international law societies including Ethiopian Lawyers Association, Australian Law Academics Association, the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, International Association of Constitutional Law, and International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2024 - ongoing Sessional Academic/Seminar Leader Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, and Justice & Society, University of South Australia 2024 - ongoing Casual Researcher Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide 2020 - 2024 Higher Degree by Research Student (PhD, Law) University of Adelaide 2018 - 2020 Assistant Professor in Law Ethiopian Civil Service University 2016 - 2018 Assistant Professor in Law Jimma University -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2020 - 2024 University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Law 2015 - 2016 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands LLM, International Law 2009 - 2010 Central European University Hungary LLM, Comparative Constitutional Law 2004 - 2008 Haramaya University Ethiopia LLB -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Mengie, L. (2023). The House of Federation of Ethiopia: Unfit for Federalism. Review of Constitutional Studies, 27(2), 129-160. 2021 Mengie, L. T. (2021). COVID-19 and elections in Ethiopia: exploring constitutional interpretation by the House of the Federation as an exit strategy. Law, Democracy and Development, 25.
2019 Mengie, L. T. (2019). The Global Financial Regulatory System and the Rule of Law: An Appraisal of the Regulatory Process under Basel III. Law, Democracy & Development, 23. 2017 Mengie, L. T. (2017). Restrictions on Rural Land Transaction in Ethiopia: The Case of the Regional States of Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples. Mekelle University Law Journal, 5. 2016 Mengie, L. T. (2016). Market Integration through WTO Law and Questions of Democracy: The Case of Ethiopia’s Accession to the WTO. Global Trade and Customs Journal, Vol. 11(3). 2016 Mengie, L. T. (2016). Global Trade Governance: WTO Accountability to Local Stakeholders. Global Trade and Customs Journal, 11(7). 2016 Mengie, L. T. (2016). Urban Land Acquisition and Social Justice in Ethiopia. Haramaya Law Review, 4(1). 2015 Mengie, L. T. (2015). ETHNIC FEDERALISM AND CONFLICT IN ETHIOPIA: WHAT LESSONS CAN OTHER JURISDICTIONS DRAW?. African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 23(3), 462-475.
Scopus10 WoS72014 Mengie, L. T. (2014). The Ethiopian Urban Land Lease Holding Law: Tenure Security and Property Rights. Jimma University Journal of Law, Vol.6. 2011 Mengie, L. T. (2011). Equal and Effective Protection for Ethiopian Urban Indigents: Constitutionality of the Existing Urban Land Tenure System and Access to Land. Jimma University Journal of Law, Vol. 3. - Mengie, L. T. (n.d.). Federalism as an Instrument for Unity and the Protection of Minorities: A Comparative Overview: Ethiopia, India and the US. Mizan Law Review, 10(2), 265.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2023 Mengie, L. (2023). Access to Constitutional Justice: The Case of Non-Judicial Constitutional Review. In Comparative Constitutional Law. Sydney. 2022 Mengie, L. T. (2022). The House of Federation of Ethiopia: Political and Adjudicative Roles in the Same Hands. In Constitutional Transformations. World Congress of Constitutional Law, Johannesburg. 2022 Mengie, L. T. (2022). Open Access to Constitutional Justice: Institutional Design as an Impediment. In Access to Justice. Oxford. 2021 Mengie, L. (2021). COVID-19, Elections and Constitutional Review in Ethiopia. In The Future of Public Law. Online. -
Internet Publications
Year Citation 2024 Mengie, L. (2024). Due Diligence Legislation and Policies: Australia’s Transparency-Based Approach to Addressing Risks of Modern Slavery in Supply Chains, Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide, Policy Brief 27. https://iit.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/2024/10/09/due-diligence-legislation-and-policies.
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Civil Society Scholar Award (Open Society Foundation London) 2022
Adelaide Scholarship International 2020
UN Regional Courses in International Law Fellowship 2017
Netherlands Masters Fellowship (NUFFIC) 2015
Central European University Scholarship 2009
University of South Australia
Law Government and Citizenship
Constitutional Law
Legal Analytics and Research
Administrative Law
University of Adelaide
Australian Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
Principles of Public Law
Jimma University
Constitutional Law
Federalism
International Trade Law
International Investment Law
Ethiopian Civil Service University
Comparative Constitutional Law
Subnational Constitutions and Local Government
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