Adeno Addis holds the W.R. Irby Chair and is the W. Ray Forrester Professor of Public and Constitutional Law at Tulane University Law School. An internationally recognized expert in human rights, constitutional law, and political theory, his research focuses on dignity, belonging, statelessness, and constitutionalism in fractured societies, especially Ethiopia. Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam (PhD) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Addis Ababa University. His research interest is in social and political philosophy broadly construed. Adem Kassie Abebe (Dr) is Senior Advisor in the Constitutional Building Programme of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance; Vice President of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers; and Extraordinary Lecturer, at the Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Abduletif Kedir Idris is a student of interdisciplinary human rights, comparative constitutional and public law focusing on Ethiopia. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, and a Lecturer at the Center for Human Rights of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.