D. Tinashé Hofisi

Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Zimbabwe
dth6583@nyu.edu

D. Tinashé Hofisi is a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at NYU Law. His research interests include judicial design, constitutional enforcement, human rights, and comparative constitutional law. Tinashé's doctoral project investigates the effectiveness of constitutional adjudication in southern Africa, focusing on Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

He is a YALI Mandela Washington Fellow, an IFES Manatt Fellow, and an ILS Law and Society Fellow. Tinashé has published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society, the Global Administrative Law Series, the Social Science Research Network, the University of Fort Hare's Speculum Juris, and the Zimbabwe Electronic Law Journal. His work is also in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights.

Tinashé is a frequent blogger and serves as the Secretary General of the Electoral Committee to the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers. For the past four years, he was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Centre for Law, Society, and Justice, where he developed an interdisciplinary course on courts, constitutionalism, and human rights. His research at NYU assesses the effectiveness of Presidential Election Dispute Resolution (PEDR) in apex African courts in the context of judicial legitimacy and electoral integrity.

He is a human rights lawyer with an SJD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an LLM from Loyola University, Chicago, and a Bachelor of Laws Honors Degree from the University of Zimbabwe. He also holds certificates in Constitution-building in Africa and Strategic Human Rights Litigation from the Central European University.

Center Affiliation: Center on Civil Justice
Research Project: The Higher the Appellate Court, the Lower the Public Support? Legitimacy and Judicial Design in African Presidential Election Petitions