Yohannes holds a PhD in International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, Monash University in Australia. Prior to joining Monash Law, he was a lecturer in law at School of Law, Bahir Dar University where he was teaching and researching on media law and human rights.
His PhD research explored the question of balancing privacy and freedom of expression in the digital age. In doing so, it examined the ways in which the balance between freedom of expression and privacy is shaped by the communal conception of human rights within the African human rights system, the unique dynamics of the Internet and online communication and selected contexts (publication of personal information and the right to be forgotten) on the Internet. His research interest spans the areas of human rights in the digital age, law and technology, media law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).
Experience
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2019–2020Lecturer, Bahir Dar University
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2015–2017Lecturer, Samara University
Education
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2024Monash University , Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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2018University of Groningen , Master of Laws - LLM in International Human Rights Law
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2017Addis Ababa University , Master of Laws - LLM in Public International Law
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2014Wollo University , Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Publications
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2023‘Digital crossroads: continuity and change in Ethiopia’s digital citizenship’, co-authored with Atnafu Brhane, in Tony Roberts and Tanja Bosch (eds), Digital Citizenship in Africa , Bloomsbury Publishing
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2022Untrodden paths towards the right to privacy in the digital era under African human rights law, 12 International Data Privacy Law 1
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2022Enforcement of Human Rights in Ethiopia: Old and New Challenges, co-authored with Wondemagegn T. Goshu, Imprint Addis Ababa University-School of Law
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2022‘Let the NetWork: The Role of African Sub-Regional Courts in Protecting Internet Access and Human Rights in the Digital Environment, co-authored with Christopher Yaw Nyinevi , 3 African Journal of International Economic Law
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2021From Digital Authoritarianism to Platforms’ Leviathan Power: Freedom of expression in the digital age under siege in Africa, 15 Mizan Law Review 2
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2020Defining ‘Hate Speech’ under the Hate Speech Suppression Proclamation in Ethiopia:A Sisyphean exercise? , 12 Ethiopian Human Rights Law Series
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2020Assessing the limitations to freedom of expression on the internet in Ethiopia against the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights , 20 African Human Rights Law Journal 1
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2019The Internet shutdown muzzle(s) freedom of expression in Ethiopia: competing narratives, 28 Information & Communications Technology Law 2
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2017Risk Allocation Norms of Civil Construction Contracts in Ethiopia, 11 Mizan Law Review 2
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