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Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

ERC Postdoctoral Fellow

Mount Scopus, Jerusalem

Mount Scopus, IL 91905

Israel

http://https://3gdr.huji.ac.il/people/yohannes-eneyew-ayalew

Monash University, Faculty of Law

Law Academic

Melbourne, 3168

Australia

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

  • Monash University, Faculty of Law

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“  My research interest spans the areas of human rights in the digital age, law and technology, media law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).  ”

  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Defining ‘Hate Speech’ under the Hate Speech Suppression Proclamation in Ethiopia: A Sisyphean exercise?

Ethiopian Human Rights Law Series Volume 12 (2020), in Sisay Alemahu (PhD) and Abadir Ibrahim (JSD) eds, Righting Human Rights through Legal Reform: Ethiopia’s contemporary experience (Addis Ababa University Press), Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3776922
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2021
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Hate Speech, Heckler’s Veto, Hatred, Disseminating, Legality, Freedom of Expression, Ethiopia

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Risk Allocation Norms of Civil Construction Contracts in Ethiopia

Mizan Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, December 2017
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 29 Mar 2018
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Risk; Civil construction contract; FIDIC; MOWUD format; Employer; Contractor

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Untrodden Paths Towards the Right to Privacy in the Digital Era under African Human Rights Law

(2022) 12 International Data Privacy Law 1, Oxford University Press , Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Feb 2022
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Digital age, Flexibility clause, Implied right, Privacy, Subsequent agreements

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Between Shut it Off and Keep it On: The Legality of Internet Shutdowns under International Law 

forthcoming at Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 59, No.3 2026
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Nov 2025 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2026
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Assessing the Limitations to Freedom of Expression on the Internet in Ethiopia Against the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights

African Human Rights Law Journal Vol 20(2) 2020
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Sep 2020
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Freedom of Expression on the Internet; Internet Shutdown; Internet Censorship; Hate Speech; Legality; African Charter; Ethiopia

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A Third-World Critique of the International Human Rights-Based Approach to Content Moderation

accepted at Transnational Legal Theory 
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 May 2025 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2025
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Content moderation, TWAIL, Social media, Low-resource languages, African Human Rights Law, International Human Rights Law, Global South

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Cyber Warfare: A New Hullaballo Under International Humanitarian Law

Beijing Law Review, 2015, 6, 209-223
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Jun 2016
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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Cyber Warfare, Hackers, Civilians, Combatants, Soft Law, International Humanitarian Law

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General Comment No. 25 on Children's Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment: Implications for Children's Right to Privacy and Data Protection in Africa

Human Rights Law Review, 2024, 24, ngae018 https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngae018
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Jul 2024
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew, Valerie Verdoodt and Eva Lievens
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Ghent University - Faculty of Law and Ghent University - Faculty of Law
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'Let the NetWork': The Role of African Sub-Regional Courts in Protecting Internet Access and Human Rights in the Digital Environment

Christopher Yaw Nyinevi & Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew, “Let the NetWork”: The Role of African Sub-Regional Courts in Protecting Internet Access and Human Rights in the Digital Environment (Fall 2022) 3 African Journal of International Economic Law 203., Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Jul 2023
Christopher Nyinevi and Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Monash University, Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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ECOWAS Court, EACJ, internet access, freedom of expression, media rights, digital rights, internet shutdown

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Enforcement of Human Rights in Ethiopia: Old and New Challenges, in Wondemagegen T. Goshu and Yohannes E. Ayalew (eds) Ethiopian Human Rights Law Series Volume XIII (Addis Ababa University, School of Law 2022)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 30 May 2023
Wondemagegen Tadesse Goshu and Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Monash University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
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The Internet Shutdown Muzzle(s) Freedom of Expression in Ethiopia: Competing Narratives

Journal of Information & Communications Technology Law Vol 28: 2 (2019)
Posted: 18 Sep 2020
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

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Internet Shutdown, Freedom of Expression, Muzzling Dissent, Exam Cheating, State of Emergency, Narratives, Ethiopia