Adem Kassie Abebe supports constitution-building processes around the world, and designs and implements projects particularly in transitions to peace and democracy in politically complex and fragile contexts. He convenes platforms for dialogue, advises and provides technical assistance to high level constitution and decision makers at national and international levels and to civil society stakeholders. He was an editor of and managed ConstitutionNet from 2016 to 2021, an online platform providing continuous updates on comparative constitutional reform processes around the world. A notable feature of ConstitutionNet is 'Voices from the Field', a series in which local experts provide analysis and updates on the process, content and principal actors in ongoing constitutional-reform proposals.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I.CON) and Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL). In addition to his extensive publications, Abebe regularly publishes opinion pieces in prominent platforms including Foreign Policy and The Conversation and has appeared as commentator on major international and media outlets such as The BBC World News and France 24. He has also delivered lectures at universities in Belgium, Ethiopia, Germany, The Netherlands, South Africa and Switzerland, and is invited to participate in high level conferences. He has served as assistant professor in the postgraduate studies programme of the Faculty of Law of the University of Addis Ababa.

Abebe has been recognized as an Extraordinary Lecturer at the University of Pretoria.  He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, and was also granted a Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (UK), Centre of Governance and Human Rights (2011) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2012). He has been recognized since 2015 as a Fellow of the Centre for Jurisprudence and Constitutional Studies at Kabarak University in Kenya.

Adem's tweets:  @AdamAbebe: <https://twitter.com/AdamAbebe>

Op-Eds published: 

• A Blueprint for Peace in Ethiopia, Foreign Policy, 12 November 2021
• Denounce Guinea’s Coup—and Incumbent Leaders’ Abuses of Power, Foreign Policy, 20 September 2021
• Ethiopia's encumbered elections, Foreign Policy, 14 June 2021
• Ethiopia Needs a Constitutional Convention, Foreign Policy, 1 April 2021 
• The African Union’s Hypocrisy Undermines Its Credibility, Foreign Policy, 27 August 2020
• Africa's Attempts to Abandon Practice of Presidents for Life Suffer Another Setback, The Conversation,16 August 2020
• Ivorian president might be sorely tempted to seek a third term. Why he mustn’t, The Conversation, 21 July 2020
• Under the shadows of COVID-19, a potential African spring of alternation of power, Africa Network for Constitutional Lawyers, 8 July 2020
• Malawi’s victory for democracy: After the euphoria, long, hard work, The Conversation, 29 June 2020
• Beating around the bush on the constitutional conundrum, Ethiopia Insight, 14 May 2020
• The threat of intraethnic strife in Ethiopia, Al Jazeera, 4 November 2019
• What Ethiopians can learn from Sidama's thorny statehood journey , Al Jazeera, 18 September 2019
• What Ethiopia needs is an independent prosecution , Al Jazeera, 22 July 2019
• It's time for the African Union to put a stop to 'third-termism' , Al Jazeera,  9 July 2019
• Sudan: a chance for the AU to refine support for countries in crisis , The Conversation, (republished) 10 June 2019
• Popular protests pose a conundrum for the AU’s opposition to coups , The Conversation, (republished) 8 May 2019
• Establishing confidence in the judiciary: Why Meaza Ashenafi should lead a process of judicial vetting , Addis Standard, 7 November 2018