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Ethiopia - Penal Code 2004
Éthiopie - Code pénal 2004
 

'Abar¯a Gambaré (Aberra Jembere), An introduction to the legal history of Ethiopia, 1434-1974,  Münster : LIT ; Piscataway, NJ : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, [2000], ix, 315 p., ISBN: 3825847764; note: "Dr. Aberra Jembere is an Assistant Professor of Law at Addis Ababa University's Faculty of Law since 1984 "A publication of the African Studies Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands)"--Facing t.p  Rev. ed. of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Erasmus University, 1998" (source: Biddle Law Library Catalogue, University of Pennsylvania);
 

Le code pénal de l'Empire d'Ethiopie du 23 juillet 1957, présenté avec une introduction  de Jean Graven, Paris: Centre francais de droit comparé, 1959,  271 p., (Nouvelle collection du Comité de législation étrangère et de droit international);

The Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of  Ethiopia, 2004, available at http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/70993/75092/F1429731028/ETH70993.pdf  and at http://www.apapeth.org/Docs/Criminal%20Code%20(English%20Version).pdf  (accessed on 30 September 2007); also available at http://www.law.ugent.be/pub/nwr/elw/criminalcode/criminalcodepage.htm (accessed on 15 January 2009);

Criminal Procedure Code of 1961, available at  http://mail.mu.edu.et/~ethiopialaws/Criminalprocedure/MainCriminalProcedure.htm (accessed on 29 June 2006); also available at http://www.law.ugent.be/pub/nwr/elw/Criminalprocedure/MainCriminalProcedure.htm (accessed on 15 January 2009);
 

DONOVAN, Dolores A. and Getachew Assefa, "Homicide in Ethiopia: Human Rights, Federalism, and Legal Pluralism", (2003) 51 The American Journal of Comparative Law 505-551;
 

DRAPKIN, Israel, 1905-, Crime and Punishment in the Ancient World, Lexington (Mass.): Lexington Books, c1989, xviii, 423 p., see "The Fetha Nagast: The Law of the Kings (Ethiopia)" at pp. 289-307, ISBN: 0669012793;

"The Ethiopian Penal Code", (1944) 8 Journal of Criminal Law 316-320;
 

FISHER, Stanley Z., "Traditional Criminal Procedure in Ethiopia", (1971) 11 American Journal of Comparative Law 709;
 

GRAVEN, Jean, "De l'antique au nouveau droit pénal éthiopien ou l'abolition des peines corporelles", La vie judiciaire, Paris, no. 445, 18-23 octobre 1954, aux pp. 1-4 et no. 446, 25-30 octobre 1954;
 

___________"L'Éthiopie moderne et la codification du nouveau droit", (1957) Revue pénale suisse 398;
 

__________"Le jubilé du couronnement impérial et la nouvelle législation éthiopienne", La vie judiciaire, Paris, no. 525, 30 avril-5 mai 1956 aux pp. 1-6 et no. 526, 7-12 mai 1956 à la p. 6;
 

__________"The Penal Code of the Empire of Ethiopia", (1964) 1 Journal of Ethiopian Law 267-298;
 

___________"Vers un nouveau droit pénal éthiopien (De la plus ancienne à la plus récente législation du monde) ", (1954) 4 Revue internationale de criminologie et de police technique 250-280;
 

GRAVEN, Philippe, An Introduction to Ethiopian Penal Law (Arts. 1-84 Penal Code), Addis Ababa, The Faculty of Law Haile Sellassie 1 University & Oxford University Press, 1965, vii, 289 p.; copy at Dalhousie University, Halifax;  Research Note: The Ehiopian code is very much influenced by the Swiss Penal Code of 1942;
 

HAILE, Hagos, Pretrial Criminal Procedure in Ethiopia , J.S.D. thesis, Yale Law School, 1978;

HOFFMAN, Paul et al., Ethiopia, reckoning under the law, New York, NY : Human Rights Watch/Africa, [1994], 38 p. (series; Human Rights Watch/Africa ; vol. 6, no. 11);
 

LOWENSTEIN, Steven, "Ethiopia",  in Alan Milner, ed., African penal systems, London:  Routledge & K. Paul, 1969, xiii, 501 p.,  at pp. 33-39,  ISBN: 0710061277; copy at Ottawa University, MRT General, KQC 974 ,M54 1969;
 

___________Materials for the study of the penal law of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa : Faculty of Law, Haile Sellassie I University, 1965, xlix, 425 p., copy at McGill University;
 

__________"The Penal System of Ethiopia", (1965) 2 Journal of Ethiopian Law 383-399;
 

Penal code of the Empire of Ethiopia of 1957, Addis Ababa:  [1957?], viii, 277 p., 25 cm., (series; Nagarit gazeta. Batalay yawata, 1957:1. Negarit gazeta, extraordinary issue no. 1 of 1957); copy at McGill University;
 

RUSSELL, Franklin F., "The New Ethiopian Penal Code", (Summer 1961) 10(3) The American Journal of Comparative Law. 265-277;

Penal Code of 1957 and Criminal Code of 2004, available at http://mail.mu.edu.et/~ethiopialaws/criminalcode/criminalcodepage.htm (accessed on 29 June 2006);

STRAUSS, Peter L., "On Interpreting the Ethiopian Penal Code", (1968) 5 Journal of Ethiopian Law 375-440;
 

SUMMER, C., "Justice et sanctions dans la philosophie éthiopienne", (1986) 12 Revue Droit et Cultures - Anthropologie et histoire 33-54;
 

TESHOME, Yeshak, 1954-, Principles of Criminal Liability: A Comparative Study, LL.M. thesis, Dalhousie University, 1991, ix, 228 p.; (Canadian and Ethiopian Legal Systems);
 

United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General. International Affairs Division, The criminal law system of Ethiopia : a criminal law survey / prepared by the Foreign Law Branch, International Affairs Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army,  [Washington : s.n.], 1962, 19 p. ; 27 cm.; copy at McGill University;
 

YOHANNES, Mebrahtu, Penal sanctions in Ethiopia: a study of the influences of social change on the traditional administration of criminal justice, Thesis (LL.M.), McGill University, Montreal, 1969, 156 leaves; copy at Dalhousie University, Sir James Dunn Law Library;

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