Author: Abduletif Kedir Idris

Abduletif Kedir Idris is a legal scholar, and his research interests include comparative constitutional and administrative law, human rights in authoritarian political contexts, religion and human rights, as well as environmental rights. He is currently a lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Professor Dirk Hanschel supervised his doctoral research as part of the research group "Environmental Rights in a Cultural Context." His dissertation examines the role of environmental rights in protecting vulnerable communities within the context of large-scale infrastructure projects in Ethiopia.