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Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam is currently a PhD student specializing in constitutional law and constitutional design at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, and a Graduate Fellow of the Center for Constitutional Democracy. He holds the position of Lecturer-in-Law at Mekelle University School of Law. Throughout his academic career, he has taught constitutional law, political theory, and peace and conflict studies at various institutions in both Ethiopia and the United States, including Jimma University, Mekelle University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Suffolk University. Furthermore, he has delivered guest lectures at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Villanova University, and Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Alemayehu is also affiliated with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project at Gothenburg University in Sweden. In 2010, he served as the National Peace Advisor to the Ministry of Federal Affairs. He has participated in fellowships with the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, the SRF in New York, and the Academy for International Business Officials in Beijing, China. Alemayehu holds an LLB from Addis Ababa University, an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European University Center for Peace Studies in Stadtschlaining, Austria, and an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. Furthermore, he has pursued graduate training in the Great Books of the Western World at the Graduate Institute at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, as well as in philosophy at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. His teaching and research interests encompass constitutional law, political theory, and conflicts in the Horn of Africa.