Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew

Yohannes

Eneyew

Ayalew

Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew’s current research explores the ways in which regional approaches, such as the African, European, and Inter-American human rights systems, inform, complement, and possibly depart from international human rights law (IHRL)

regarding human rights in the digital environment. While IHRL seeks to protect digital human rights in various ways, such as transposing existing offline rights to the online sphere, creating new digital rights, and imposing rights and obligations on big

tech companies, regional systems, on the other hand, offer normative and institutional frameworks that are unique to local realities and contexts across different regions.

Despite IHRL’s potential to provide a universal framework, it often ignores (and renders invisible) regional contexts in the Global South, which grapples with a wide digital divide and other structural challenges.

Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to that, he was a Sessional Academic and Tutor at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia. Dr Ayalew is an inaugural Majority World Initiative (MWI) Scholar at Yale Law School. He holds a PhD in Law at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia and dual Master of Laws (LLM) degrees, one in Public International Law from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and the other in International Human Rights Law from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He also earned his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Wollo University in Ethiopia, graduating cum laude and receiving the Vice President’s Gold Medal for the highest academic achievements. His work has been published in leading academic journals including The Human Rights Law Review, Information and Communications Technology Law, African Human Rights Law Journal, and The International Data Privacy Law.

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