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SUMMARY:The Rule by law in Ethiopia: Rendering constitutional limits on go
 vernment power nonsensical - Adem Kassie\, CGHR visiting doctoral student 
 from University of Pretoria
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DESCRIPTION:This is a CGHR Research Group seminar\, for more information s
 ee: http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/cghr/research_research_group.html.\n\nRule 
 of law is one of the most controversial yet most often used legal and poli
 tical concepts. Scholars have distinguished between formal and substantive
 \, and between thin and thick conceptions of the rule of law. Following th
 e bandwagon\, the Ethiopian Constitution commits itself to ‘building a p
 olitical community founded on the rule of law’ and conditions the succes
 s of this laudable goal on the full respect of individual and people's fun
 damental freedoms and rights. This paper intends to assess the constitutio
 nal basis and understanding of the rule of law and limits on government po
 wer in Ethiopia. It then discusses the manifestation of rule by law or the
  law of rules (much in line with the thin or formal conceptions of rule of
  law) in practice particularly since the most contested 2005 Ethiopian ele
 ctions. It also identifies the constitutional\, political\, cultural\, his
 torical and practical factors that breed and reinforce rule by law and the
  defiance of the constitutional limits on government power including those
  limits embodied in the human rights guarantees. It concludes by suggestin
 g the way forward in fulfilling the constitutional promise of a limited co
 nstitutional government.
LOCATION:Senior Common Room\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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