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Dr Firew Kebede Tiba

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Personal website: http://www.hku.hk/tiba
Firew is a native of Ethiopia. He received his LLB from Addis Ababa University with Distinction. He also holds LLMs in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria (2001) and in International Economic and Business Law from Kyushu University in Japan (2004). His PhD in international dispute settlement was awarded by the University of Hong Kong in 2008. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Professional Legal Education of the Faculty of Law at HKU.
He was previously (1999-2003), a Lecture in Law at the Faculty of Law of the Ethiopian Civil Service College and a Research Officer with the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (Aug 2008-July 2009).
A one time visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a DAAD and Monbukagakusho Scholar; Firew has, among others, obtained several certificates in international law, human rights, humanitarian law, and international criminal law.
 Research Interests

  • International Law
  • Legal Education

Publications:

  • MONGOGRAPHS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
  • Firew Kebede Tiba, Multiplicity of International Courts and Tribunals: Implications for the Coherent Application of Public International Law, (VDM Verlag, 2008) ISBN 978-3-639-11226-9, Paperback, 288p)
  • Firew Kebede Tiba, “Mengistu Hailemariam & Others Case”, The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice (ed. Professor Antonio Cassese et.al.), (Oxford University Press- 2009), p. 807 (a brief entry)
  • Firew Kebede Tiba, “Mengistu and Red Terror Trials”, in Godfrey Musila, Domestic Prosecution of International Crimes and the Role of Regional Organizations: Some African Case Studies, Institute of Security Studies, South Africa, 2009 (forthcoming)
  • JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • The International Judge in an Age of Multiple International Courts and Tribunals, Chicago Journal of International Law (2009) Vol 9(2), p 407-470 ( with Suzannah Linton)
  • Firew Kebede Tiba, The Mengistu Genocide Trial in Ethiopia, Journal of International Criminal Justice (2007), Vol 5 (2), pp. 513-528
  • Firew Kebede Tiba, Book Review, Punishment and Process in International Criminal Trials by Ralph Henham, Asian Journal of Criminology (2007)
  • Firew Kebede Tiba, What Caused the Multiplicity of International Courts and Tribunals, 10 Gonzaga Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, (2006), pp. 202-225
  • CONFERENCE PAPERS
  • Firew Kebede Tiba, Civil Societies and International Criminal Law, ARCA-Net Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 2007