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Bulto, Asst. Prof. Takele

takele bulto

Assistant Professor, International Studies
Faculty of Arts & Design

Bldg, Floor & Room: 20, C9
Telephone: (02) 6201 2646
Facsimile: (02) 6201 2649
Takele.Bulto@canberra.edu.au

Biography

Dr Takele Soboka Bulto studied for his PhD at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, where he had been an Inaugural Teaching Fellow during the 2009 and 2010 academic years. He is the winner of the Harold Luntz Graduate Research Prize (Best PhD Thesis Prize), Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne (2012) and the Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis (2012), University of Melbourne. He took his LLB and MA Degree (International Relations) Degrees from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and an LLM Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Previously, he was an Australian Research Council's Lauereate Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ) in the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University, and is currently a Visiting Fellow of the CIGJ . He is also a visiting Assistant Professor of Law in Addis Ababa University’s School of Law (Ethiopia).

A former judge of Oromia State Supreme Court in Ethiopia, Dr Bulto has ample national and international experience as a human rights lecturer, researcher, practitioner and consultant. He specialises in international, regional and comparative human rights law, with a special focus on the African human rights system. His areas of research cut across human rights and international water law regimes, with a special focus on economic, social and cultural rights, particularly the human right to water and its extraterritorial application.

Before moving to Australia, he had practiced before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. As a Legal Officer at a Pan African NGO, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (Banjul, The Gambia), he represented victims of human rights violations from Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kenya and Angola and defended their cases before the two African regional human rights tribunals. He had also worked as Eastern and Central Africa Human Rights Programme Coordinator for Child Rights and Child Rights Programming in the Regional Office of Save the Children Sweden.

Dr Takele has published numerous research works in reputable journals and edited collections in Australia, America, Africa, The Netherlands and UK.

Areas of Teaching

  • International Human Rights Law
  • Economic Social and Cultural Rights
  • International Studies 

Research Interests

  • Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Norms
  • Socio-Economic Rights
  • The Human Right to Water
  • African Human Rights System
  • International Law of Watercourses

Qualifications Obtained

  • LLB (Addis Ababa University)
  • LLM (University of Pretoria)
  • M.A (International Relations, Addis Ababa University)
  • PhD (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)

Recent Publications

Books

  • Takele Soboka Bulto, Extraterritorial Application of the Human Right to Water in Africa (Forthcoming 2013, Cambridge University Press/UK).
  • Takele Soboka Bulto, Extraterritoriality and International Human Rights Law: Transnational Violations and African Human Rights Treaties (Forthcoming 2014, Routledge/Oxford, UK).
  • Takele Soboka Bulto and Lilian Chenwi (eds), Justice beyond Borders: The Extraterritorial Reach of African Human Rights Instruments (Forthcoming 2013, Intersentia).
  • Takele Soboka Bulto, Principles of the Ethiopian Federal Family Law (work in progress, forthcoming 2013). 

Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

  • Bulto, T, ‘Exception as Norm: The Local Remedies Rule and Socio-Economic Rights in the African Human Rights System,’ 16 (4) The International Journal of Human Rights (2012) 555-576.
  • Bulto, T, ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? The Interpretation and Application of the Equality Guarantee under the Ethiopian Constitution’ 25 Afrika Focus Journal (Forthcoming, 2012).
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Emergence of the Human Right to Water: Invention or Discovery?’  12(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law (2011) 290-314.
  • Bulto, T, ‘Patching the ‘Legal Black Hole’: The Extraterritorial Reach of States’ Human Rights Duties in the African Human Rights System’ 27(2) South African Journal of Human Rights (2011) 249-278.
  • Bulto, T, ‘Towards Rights-Duties Congruence: Extraterritorial Application of the Human Right to Water in the African Human Rights System,’ 29 (4) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (2011) 491-523.
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Human Right to Water in the Corpus and Jurisprudence of the African Human Rights System’ 11(2) African Human Rights Law Journal (2011) 341-367.
  • Bulto, T, ‘Judicial Referral of Constitutional Issues in Ethiopia: from Practice to Theory’ 19(1) African Journal of International and Comparative Law (2011) 99-123.
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Utility of Cross-Cutting Rights in Enhancing the Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ 29(1) University of Tasmania Law Review (Forthcoming 2010) (pp. 142-176).
  • Bulto, T, ‘Between Ambivalence and Necessity in the Nile Basin:  Occlusions on the Path towards a Basin-Wide Treaty’ 20(3) Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy (2009) 291-320.
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Monist-Dualist Divide and the Supremacy Clause: Revisiting the Status of Human rights Treaties under the Ethiopian Constitution’ 23 (1) Journal of Ethiopian Law (2009) 132-160.
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Promises of the New Constitutional Engineering in the Post-Genocide Rwanda’, 8(2) African Human Rights Law Journal, (2008) 187-206.
  • Bulto, T, ‘Beyond the Promises: Resuscitating the State Reporting Procedure Under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights’, 12 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, (2006) 157-192.

Book Chapters

  • Bulto, T ‘The AU, Human Rights and the Environment: Cases of the AU Commission,’ in Werner Scholtz and Jonathan Verschuuren (eds) Regional Environmental Law: Transregional Comparative Lessons in Pursuit of Sustainable Development (Forthcoming 2013, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK).
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Human Right to Water at the Global Level: Too Familiar to Ignore, Too New to recognise?’ in Jose Esteban Castro (ed) The Human Right to Water as a Public Policy: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration (Forthcoming 2012).
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Environment and Human Rights’  in Anja Mihr  and Mark Gibney (eds) SAGE Handbook of Human Rights (Forthcoming 2013).
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Public-Private Duties Dichotomy and Extraterritorial Violations in the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights’ (eds) Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations (Forthcoming 2013).
  • Bulto, T, ‘Soering in Africa: Torture by Proxy and Extraterritorial State Responsibility,’ in Takele Soboka Bulto and Lilian Chenwi (eds) Justice beyond Borders: The Extraterritorial Reach of African Human Rights Instruments (Forthcoming 2013).
  • Bulto, T, & Llilian Chenwi, ‘Unpacking Extraterritoriality’ in Takele Soboka Bulto and Lilian Chenwi (eds) Justice beyond Borders: The Extraterritorial Reach of African Human Rights Instruments (Forthcoming 2013).
  • Bulto, T, & Llilian Chenwi, ‘Extraterritoriality: Current Problems and Future Directions’ in in Takele Soboka Bulto and Lilian Chenwi (eds) Justice beyond Borders: The Extraterritorial Reach of African Human Rights Instruments (Forthcoming 2013).
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Indirect Approach to Promote Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ in Rachel H Murray (ed.) Human Rights Litigation and the Domestication of International Human Rights Standards in Sub-Saharan Africa (Stockholm and Nairobi,  International Commission of Jurists, 2009), pp.135-167.
  • Bulto, T, ‘The Interplay of the Equality Clause and Affirmative Action Measures under the Ethiopian Constitution: The Benishangul Gumuz Case and Beyond,’ in Girmachew Alemu and Sisay Alemahu (eds) The Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects (2008, Addis Ababa University Printing Press), pp.59-98.

 

Awards

  • Winner, Harold Luntz Graduate Research Prize (Best PhD Thesis Prize), Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne (2012).
  • Winner, Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne (2012).
  • Winner, Best Student Medal, MA studies, Addis Ababa University (2005).
  • Co-Winner, 2003 Book Award for Best Research, LLM studies, University of Pretoria.