Won Kidane

Biography

Professor Kidane is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Seattle University School of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of international arbitration and litigation, international and comparative law, and immigration law and clinic. Professor Kidane has published a comprehensive book on dispute settlement in China-Africa economic relations. He has also published several articles in law journals associated with the Schools of Law of Cornell, University of Michigan, Catholic, Hastings, Chicago Kent, Wisconsin, Denver, Fordham and Berkeley. Before joining the Seattle University Law School, Professor Kidane taught at Penn State Dickinson School of Law for three years.

Prior to joining the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Professor Kidane practiced law in Washington D.C. with the Law firm of Piper Rudnick (now DLA-Piper), and later Hunton & Williams. His practice focused on international arbitration and litigation. He continues to consult in these areas with law firms.

Before his practice in Washington, D.C., Professor Kidane worked as a legal officer in association with the African regional office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Professor Kidane currently teaches International Arbitration and Litigation, and Immigration Law and Clinic.

Books

CHINA-AFRICA DISPUTE SETTLEMENT: THE LAW, ECONOMICS AND CULTURE OF ARBITRATION (Walters Kluwer, 2011)

Book Review

Review of International Law and Dispute Settlement: New Problems and Techniques, by Duncan French, Mathew Saul & Nigel D. White (eds) ( Hart Publishing 2010.) Law & Politics Review, Vol. 20, No. 10, 569ff.

Immigration Law as Contract: Everyday Law for Immigrants, By Victor C. Romero (Boulder Paradigm Publishers, 2009) 34 Seattle L. Rev. 889 (2010).

Articles

Managing Displacement by Law In Africa: The Role of the New African Union IDPs Convention, 44 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1 (Spring 2011).

 The Alienage Spectrum Disorder:  The Bill of Rights from Chinese Exclusion to Guantanamo, 20 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 89 (2010).

The Terrorism Bar to Asylum in Australia, Canada, The United Kingdom and the United States: Transporting Best Practices, 33 Fordham international Law Journal 300 (2010).

The Status of Private Military Contractors Under International Humanitarian Law, 38 Denver International Law Journal 361 (2010).

The Terrorism Exception to Asylum: Managing the Uncertainty in Status Determination, 41 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 669 (2008).

Revisiting the Rules of Evidence and Procedure in Adversarial Immigration Proceedings, 57 Cath. U. L. Rev. 93 (2008).

The Challenges of Representing Detained Noncitizens in Expedited Removal Proceedings from the Perspective of the Dickinson School of Law Immigration Clinic (symposium issue), 17 Widener L. J. 391 (2008).

Combating Corruption Through International Law in Africa: A Comparative Analysis (with Tom Snider), 40 Cornell Int'l L.J. 691 (2007).

Committing a Crime While a Refugee: Rethinking the Issue of Deportation in Light of the Principle Against Double Jeopardy, 34 Hastings Const. L. Q. 383 (2007).

The Jurisprudence of Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Tribunal, 25 Wis. Int'l L. J. 23 (2007).

An Injury to the Citizen a Pleasure to the State: A Peculiar Challenge to the Enforcement of International Refugee Law, 6 Chi-Kent J. Int'l & Comp. L 116 (2006).

The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials in M. Cherif Bassiouni (ed), POST CONFLICT JUSTICE (Transnational pub, 2002).