Berihun Adugna Gebeye is a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Previously, he has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Gottingen and held visiting fellowships at Columbia Law School and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford. He taught comparative constitutional law and politics at the Central European University, University of Yangon, and the University of Gottingen. He holds degrees in law, human rights, and comparative constitutional law, and has extensively published in these fields with a focus on Africa.