MR TEWELDE BAHTA

Tewelde Bahta (LLM, MA) began his legal education in Amsterdam where he studied Dutch Law for a year. He moved to Maastricht where he completed Bachelors and Masters in European Law School at the University of Maastricht. After briefly working at the prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, he then attended an MA programme in Human Rights at the European Inter University Center in Venice, Italy, and at the Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights in Vienna, Austria.

Tewelde represented the Dutch faculties at the international rounds of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, and he is a holder of the Dutch record for the best oralist for that competition. He is also a senior fellow of Humanity in Action, a New York based human rights advocacy group.

Tewelde is currently working on his PhD on access to justice and legal aid at the University of Amsterdam. His research mainly concerns making a comparative analysis of smart solutions of contemporary issues of legal aid and access to justice throughout Europe using the Netherlands as a starting point.