Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam (born 8 June 1980) is an Ethiopian constitutional law scholar, political theorist, conflict analyst, and a public intellectual. Early life and education Alemayehu Fentahun was born in Alamata, Tigray Province, Ethiopia on 8 June 1980. Alemayehu Weldemariam teaches Constitutional Law at Mekelle University School of Law where he is also Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He holds a Master of Science in Conflict Analysis & Resolution (2016) from George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia and a Master of Arts (summa cum laude) in Peace & Conflict Studies (2009) from the European University Center for Peace Studies at Stadtschlaining, Austria, where he was also a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. Besides, he was a fellow of the Academy for International Business Officials, in Beijing, China. Moreover, he received an LL.B degree from Addis Ababa University School of Law in July 2005. Alemayehu has also a year-long graduate training in philosophy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and spent another year reading the Great Books at the Graduate Institute at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He moved to the United States in November 2011 as a guest scholar at the University of Chicago to collaborate with Professor Donald N. Levine on a book project on Ethiopia, published by Tsehay Publishers as Interpreting Ethiopia as well as an International Conference on George Simmel. He had delivered lectures at several universities in Ethiopia, the US and Japan, including, Villanova University, outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He served as a scholar-in-residence at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin and Austin Community College. He was also a visiting professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences at Suffolk University. Career Weldemariam is a Lecturer-in-Law in the Constitutional and Public Law Program at Mekelle University where he teaches constitutional law, federalism, and human rights courses. He taught various courses at Jimma University Law School, including constitutional law, criminal law, jurisprudence, and law of traders and business organizations. He also served as the founding editor of the Jimma University Journal of Law and was head of the Research and Publications Office. Besides, he has served as project officer with the Organization for Social Justice in Ethiopia, legal advisor to the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce, and regional director of the Ethiopian Global