Desalegn Amsalu’s scientific contributions

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8. Use and abuse of ‘the right to consent’: Forum shopping between shimgilinna and state courts among the Amhara of Ankober, northcentral Ethiopia
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December 2020

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Desalegn Amsalu

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of negotiation, and their strategic application of law can lead to unwanted confusion, but also to sustainable conflict resolution, innovative new procedures and hybrid norms. The book thus generates important knowledge on the conditions necessary for stimulating a cooperative co-existence of different legal systems.

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... It has also issued a Regulation to implement the Oromia Region Customary Courts, (Regulation No. 10/2021). These laws provide for a procedure for giving recognition and establishing customary courts that resolve disputes and reconcile in accordance with customary laws, their responsibilities, and the manner of revocation of the recognition given to them etc. 78 Desalegn Amsalu (2020 This can be taken as legal hybridity which allows an accommodation of the affiliation of individuals to two or more institutions or legal systems whereby elders can play their roles in the customary system and at the same time become members of LAC (a state institution) to adjudicate land disputes. 81 This recognition by the law is a form of deference given to the roles of elders in the settlement disputes related to rural land holding rights. ...

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Effect of Formalization of Rural Women’s Land Rights in a Plural Justice System: The Case of the Sidama Regional State
8. Use and abuse of ‘the right to consent’: Forum shopping between shimgilinna and state courts among the Amhara of Ankober, northcentral Ethiopia
Desalegn Amsalu