Henok Asmelash

Dr Henok Asmelash

Birmingham Law School
Associate Professor in International Economic Law

Contact details

Telephone: +44(0)121 414 6045
Email: h.b.asmelash@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Law School
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Henok Asmelash is an Associate Professor in International Economic Law at Birmingham Law School. Before joining the University 麻豆精选, he was a Postdoctoral Global Fellow at New York University and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.

Henok has been awarded the Global Innovation Fellowship from the British Academy (£147,087.37) and is currently on a policy secondment with the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

His research focuses on legal and policy issues at the intersection of trade, energy and the environment with a particular emphasis on the role of trade law and policy in the energy transition and African economic integration. He has published his work in leading international law journals such as the Journal of International Economic Law, the European Journal of International Law and Journal of World Investment and Trade. His publications have been cited widely, including by governmental and intergovernmental bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Qualifications

PhD in International Law and Economics (Bocconi University)
LLM in International Economic Law and Policy (University of Barcelona)
LLM in Business Law (Addis Ababa University)
LLB (Jimma University)
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (University 麻豆精选)

Biography

Henok holds a PhD in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University (Milan) and LLM degrees in International Economic Law and Policy from the University of Barcelona and in Business Law from Addis Ababa University. He has held visiting research and teaching positions at various institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, University of St. Gallen, Bocconi University and University of Barcelona. 聽

He has consulted governmental and intergovernmental institutions such as OBREAL Global, the World Institute for Development Economics Research the International and the Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development on a range of legal and policy issues related to trade, energy, environment and regional economic integration.

Henok is a marathoner with a personal best of 02:46:15 set at the 2024 London Marathon.

Teaching

International and European Economic Law (Module Leader)
International Trade Law and Policy (LLM) (Module Leader)
Preferential Trade Agreements and Regional Blocks (LLM)
Legal Foundations of the European Union

Postgraduate supervision

Henok is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:

International trade law
International investment law
Regional economic integration in Africa
Global energy transition governance

Find out more - our PhD Law page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

Henok鈥檚 research primarily focuses on legal and policy issues at the intersection of trade, energy and the environment with a particular emphasis on the regulation of energy subsidies in the multilateral trading system and other intergovernmental forums. Another strand of his research examines the external and non-economic dimensions of the regional economic integration process in Africa.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

de Amstalden, M, Moran, N & Asmelash, H (eds) 2023, . European Yearbook of International Economic Law, 1 edn, Springer.

Article

Mekonnen, S & Asmelash, H 2024, '', Journal of African Law.

Asmelash, H 2023, '', The Journal of World Investment & Trade, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 847鈥�878.

Asmelash, H 2023, '', Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 321-333.

Asmelash, H 2022, '', World Trade Review, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 455鈥�478.

Asmelash, H 2022, '', European Journal of International Law, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 993鈥�1023.

Asmelash, H 2022, '', Journal of World Trade, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 803鈥�830.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Asmelash, H 2024, . in F Sindico, K McKenzie, G Medici-Colombo & L Wegener (eds), Research Handbook on Climate Change Litigation. Research Handbooks in Climate Law, Edward Elgar, pp. 326-341.

Asmelash, H 2022, . in H Ruiz Fabri & E Stoppioni (eds), International Investment Law: An Analysis of the Major Decisions. 1st edn, Studies in International Trade and Investment Law, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 529鈥�544.

Asmelash, H 2021, . in Trade and Environmental Law. Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Edward Elgar, pp. 608-611. <>

Chapter

Asmelash, H 2023, in Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Futures: The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Policy and Law. Springer.

Asmelash, H & Kassahun, T 2022, . in Materials on African Regional and Continental Integration in Higher Education. OBREAL Global, pp. 65-95. <>

Commissioned report

Acton, J, Anderson, P, Andres, L, Angus, M, Amor, P, Arrowsmith, J (ed.), Asmelash, H, Bartington, S (ed.), Bengtsson, F, Bhullar, L, Bloss, W, Bonet, B, B枚rner, S, O Bonsu, N, Bryson, JR, Burns, V, Burrows, A, Calvert, C, Cassidy, N, Cavoski, A, Chadyiwa, M, Chapman, H, Chapman, L, Cockram, M, Degendardt, L, Dickinson, D, Ding, Y, Dobrzynski, D, Dolo, M, Dora, J, Ercolani, M, Ersoy, A, Farag, H, Ferranti, E, Fisher, R, Freer, M, Goldmann, N, Goode, CE, Greenham, S, Gulati, S, Hadfield-Hill, S, Harper, G, Hegerl, G, Hillmansen, S, Holmes, J, Huang, JJ, Huser, C, Jackson, R, Jaroszweski, D, Jefferson, I, Johnson, J, Kaewunruen, S, Kelly-Akinnuoye, F, Kettles, G, Kraftl, P, Krause, S, Leckebusch, GC, Lee, R, Lockwood, B (ed.), Lohse, J, Luna Diez, E, Lynch, I (ed.), MacKenzie, R, Maddison, D, Makepeace, J, Mann, V, Marino, R, Mavronicola, N, McDonald, M, McGowan, K (ed.), Metje, N, Ng, K, Nicol, J, O'Sullivan, C, Phalkey, N, Prestwood, E, Pyatt, N, Quinn, A, Radcliffe, J (ed.), Ravi, M, Reardon, L, Reeder, T, O鈥橰egan, P, Remedios, L, Roberts, J, Rogers, C, Rungskunroch, P, van Schaik, W, Swan, J (ed.), Thomson, I, Toft, H (ed.), Tong, J, Botello Villagrana, F, Walton, A, Wason, C (ed.), Weir, C, Wood, R & Zhong, J 2021, . University 麻豆精选.

Other contribution

Asmelash, H 2024, . University 麻豆精选. <>