Professor Won L. Kidane is a Fulbright scholar and professor of law at Villanova University. He is the author and co-author of four other books and more than 40 law review articles and book chapters. Prior to his position at Villanova University, he taught at Seattle University for 15 years and at Penn State Law for three years. He has also practiced law with DLA Piper and Hunton and Williams in Washington D.C.
Kidane has represented African states and their instrumentalities and enterprises in investor-state, state-to-state, and commercial arbitration for more than 20 years. He holds a SJD from Georgetown, a JD from the University of Illinois College of Law Urbana-Champaign, an LLM from the University of Georgia and an LLB from Addis Ababa University. He is a member of the bars of District of Columbia, Illinois, and Washington state.