What is transformative constitutionalism?

The School of History invites staff, students and members of the local community to this Institue of Legal and Constitutional Research (ILCR) Lecture on from Berihun Gebeye of University College London (UCL).

Berihun Gebeye is a Lecturer in Law in the Faculty of Laws at UCL, where his research and teaching focus on public law with a particular emphasis on comparative constitutional law, human rights, and international law.

His first book, A Theory of African Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press 2021), winner of the 2023 ICON*S Book Prize Special Mention, offers a comprehensive account of constitutional change and transformation in Africa from pre-colonial times to the present and advances a new theory for understanding African constitutionalism on its terms. He uses theoretical, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches and materials to study constitutions and constitutionalism, on which he has published extensively.

He is currently working on transformative constitutionalism, federalism, and the conditions for sustainable constitutionalism in an increasingly changing world. With Professor Richard Albert, he is editing The Oxford Handbook of African Constitutions (under contract with Oxford University Press). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Editor of the German Law Journal, and an elected member of the Council of the International Society of Public Law (ICON*S).

All welcome!