Husen Tura
Project Researcher
Dr Husen Tura is a project researcher at the UEF Law School. He conducts scholarly research in the areas of commercial law, law and development and human rights, and teaches courses on EU Food Law, and Food Law and Policy.
husen.tura@uef.fi | +358 44 922 6417
Between March and September 2020, he worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law. He was an Early Stage Researcher at the UEF Law School between January 2016 and December 2019 where he was responsible to conduct scholarly research relating to his doctoral dissertation entitled “The Right to Food and Land in Ethiopia” and teaching courses on EU Food Law and Food Law and Policy.
He had also worked as a lecturer in law at three public universities in Ethiopia between August 2011 and December 2015. These are Addis Ababa University School of Law, Ambo University School of Law, and Wolaita Sodo University School of Law. In addition to teaching undergraduate law courses on contract law, international trade law, investment law, and legal research methods, Tura has published academic papers in interdisciplinary subjects such as the right to food, corporate governance, smallholder’s land rights, access to justice, legal aid, directors’ remuneration, WTO law and merger regulation. His papers appeared in refereed journals such as Land Use Policy, Third World Quarterly, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, African Journal of Legal Studies and International Human Rights Law Review, amongst others.
Dr Tura obtained his Doctorate Degree in Law (LL.D) from the UEF Law School in March 2020.
Research groups
Publications
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Land Rights, Urban Agriculture and the Right to Food: The Case of Addis Ababa
Tura, Husen Ahmed. 2020. Ethiopian civil and commercial law series. X: 1-22 -
Linking the rights to food and land in Ethiopia : the need to reform the relevant legal framework to enhance food and nutrition security
Tura, Husen Ahmed. 2020. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland. Dissertations in social sciences and business studies -
Achieving zero hunger: implementing a human rights approach to food security in Ethiopia
Tura, Husen Ahmed. 2019. Third world quarterly. 40: 1613-1633 -
The Right to Food and Its Justiciability in Developing Countries
Tura, Husen Ahmed. 2018. Haramaya law review. 7: 48-74 -
Land rights and land grabbing in Oromia, Ethiopia
Tura Husen Ahmed. 2017. Land use policy. 2018; 70: 247-255 -
Linking Land Rights and the Right to Adequate Food in Ethiopia: Normative and Implementation Gaps
Tura Husen Ahmed. 2017. Nordic journal of human rights. 35: 85-105 -
The Impact of Ethiopia's Anti-terrorism Law on Freedom of Expression
Tura Husen. Teoksessa: Davulis Tomas, Isokaite Indre, Harris Priscilla, Levon Justyna, Murauskas Donatas, Tamasauskaite-Janicke Gintare, Vebraite Vigita(toim.) , 2017. Proceeding of 5th International Conference of PhD Students and Young Researchers: How Deep is Your Law? Brexit. Technologies. Modern Conflicts. s. 393-404. Vilnius University, Faculty of Law, International Network of Doctoral Studies in Law -
Directors' Remuneration in Ethiopia
Tura HA. Teoksessa: Alexander Kostyuk, Markus Stiglbauer, Dmitriy Govorun(toim.) , 2016. The Theory and Practice of Directors' Remuneration: New Challenges and Opportunities. s. 185-212. Emerald -
Ethiopia's Accession to the World Trade Organisation: Lessons from Acceded Least Developed Countries
HA Tura. 2015. Joornaalii seeraa oromiyaa. 4: 125-152 -
A Woman's Right to and Control over Rural Land in Ethiopia: The Law and the Practice
Tura Hussein Ahmed. 2014. International journal of gender and women's studies. 2: 137-165