Baraket Selassie
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Bereket Habte Selassie is a leading scholar on African law and government. He is William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a former attorney general of Ethiopia and an activist for Eritrean independence. He is the primary architect of the Eritrean constitution.[1]
His work in Eritrea has been well-chronicled through a number of books he has authored, the most recent being, The Making of the Eritrean Constitution: Dialectic of Process and Substance (2003). [2]
Professor Selassie taught at Howard University and Georgetown University, before joining the faculty of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated from the University of Perugia, and received his LL.B. and Ph.D from the University of London.
