CV-Addis-Adeno.pdf Adeno Addis
- W.R. Irby Chair and W. Ray Forrester Professor of Public and Constitutional Law
- aaddis@tulane.edu
- Weinmann Hall, Room 230-E
- 504.865.5813
Education
- B.A., LL.B. (First Class Honors), 1980, Macquarie University (Australia)
- LL.M., 1983, J.S.D., 1987, Yale University
Biography
Adeno Addis is an internationally recognized scholar whose expertise spans a range of areas, but primarily focusing on human rights, constitutional law, and political and legal theory. He has published extensively in law and social science journals in the United States, Asia and Europe. He has taught at other law schools both in the United States and in other countries such as Australia, Germany, Hong Kong (SAR), and Japan. He has delivered many public lectures at many other institutions, including the University of Antwerp, University of Hong Kong, and the University of Texas (Austin).
Addis’ current research projects include: a study of the idea of dignity in comparative contexts, in both the legal and political domains; and an inquiry into the notion of “belonging” in a world in transition. The latter project is tentatively entitled “The Dignity of Belonging and the Indignity of Displacement.”
Selected Publications
Constitutional Preambles as Narratives of Peoplehood, 12 Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law 125 (2018)
Human Dignity in Comparative Constitutional Context: In Search of an Overlapping Consensus, 2 Journal of Int'l and Comparative Law 1 (2015)
The Concept of Human Dignity in a World of Plural Values and Ethical Commitments, 31 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 403 (2013)
Imagining the Homeland from Afar: Community and Peoplehoold in the Age of the Diaspora, 45 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 963 (2012)
Torture as a Counterterrorism Strategy, XLIV Comparative Law Review 127 (2010)
Deliberative Democracy in Severely Fractured Societies, 16 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 59 (2009)
Imagining the International Community: The Constitutive Dimension of Universal Jurisdiction, 31 Human Rights Quarterly 129 (2009)
The Concept of Critical Mass in Legal Discourse, 29 Cardozo L. Rev. 97 (2007)
“Informal” Suspension of Normal Processes: The “War on Terror” as an Autoimmunity Crisis, 87 B.U. L. Rev. 323 (2007)
Economic Sanctions and the Problem of Evil, 25 Human Rights Quarterly 573 (2003)
Cultural Integrity and Political Unity: The Politics of Language in Multilingual States, 33 Arizona State Law Journal 719 (2001).
Who's Afraid of Foreigners? The Restrictions on Alien Ownership of the Electronic Media, 32 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 133 (2000) (reprinted in 22 Immigration and Nationality Law Review 387 (2003))
Role Models and the Politics of Recognition, 144 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1377 (1996)
"Hell Man, They Did Invent Us": The Mass Media, Law, and African Americans, 41 Buffalo Law Review 523 (1993)
In Defense of Crookedness, 1992 University of Illinois Law Review 947 (1992)
Individualism, Communitarianism and the Rights of Ethnic Minorities, 67 Notre Dame Law Review 615 (1992)
International Propaganda and Developing Countries, 21 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 491 (1988)
Book Reviews
Essay (reviewing Fatsah Ouguergouz, The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights), 98 American Journal of International Law 879 (2004)
Adjudication and Institutional Legitimacy, 71 Boston University Law Review 161 (1991) (Reviewing Dworkin’s Law’s Empire)
Books and Book Chapters
Community and Jurisdictional Authority, in Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization 13 (Gunther Handl, Joachim Zekoll, and Peer Zumbansen eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012)
Constitutions as Autobiographies of Peoples (Nations), in The Future of Comparative Study in Law: The 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Comparative Law in Japan (Chuo University Press, 2011)
Law as a Process of Communication: Reisman Meets Habermas, in Looking to the Future: Essays in International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan, Robert D. Sloan & Siegfried Wiessner, eds. (2010))
On Human Diversity and the Limits of Toleration, in Ethnicity and Group Rights 112-153 (Will Kymlicka and Ian Shapiro eds.1997)
On Research on the State, Law and the Legal Process of Development (with B. Selassie and R. Seidman), in Twenty-First-Century Africa: Towards a New Vision of Self-Sustainable Development 243-283 (A. Seidman and F. Anang eds.1992)