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 immigration law, administrative law, and international and comparative law. Professor Kidane has published articles in the law journals of Cornell, University of Michigan, Catholic, Hastings, Chicago Kent, and Wisconsin. Before joining the Seattle University Law School, Professor Kidane taught at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law for three years. The courses he taught include immigration law, administrative law, and a clinical course in immigration and refugee law.

Prior to joining the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Professor Kidane practiced law in Washington D.C. for four years 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). His duties included refugee status determination, and the protection of rights of refugees. In that capacity, he travelled to and worked in various refugee camps in East Africa. At about the same period, he also taught criminal procedure and law of evidence as an adjunct in Addis Ababa.

Professor Kidane is a recipient of visiting scholars' awards and fellowships from various institutions including Northwestern University, DePaul University, University of Brussels, and San Ramo Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Articles

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).

Civil Liability for Violations of International Humanitarian Law, 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).