This book is based on my dissertation written in fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D./JSD (Doctor of Juridical Science) in International Water Resources Law at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, in Sacramento, California. I am extremely grateful to my supervisor, Professor Stephen C. McCaffrey, for allowing me to study under his supervision and tirelessly guiding my academic endeavors. Professor McCaffrey, one of the foremost authorities in the world on international watercourses law, was extremely supportive: This book could not have been completed without his critical review and precious comments. I sincerely appreciate his keen interest in the topic and his unwavering support throughout the development of this book.
I express my deepest gratitude to my distinguished jsd Dissertation Committee—External Examiner, Professor Daniel Magraw, President Emeritus of Center for International Environmental Law (ciel) and Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University; Committee Chair, Professor Omar Dajani, Director of Global Center for Business & Development at McGeorge School of Law; and Professor Rachael Salcido, Director of the Environmental Law Program and Sustainable Development Institute at McGeorge School of Law.
My sincere appreciation is also extended to McGeorge School of Law for awarding me the McGeorge Merit-Based Institutional Scholarship and Professor Stephen McCaffrey Scholarship for Water and Environmental Law. I am also grateful to the Open Society Foundations for the Civil Society Scholars Award they awarded me during the 2017/18 academic year. I would not have joined the jsd program at McGeorge School of Law and completed this book without these financial supports. Thank you so much all.
Finally, I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of the book for their insightful comments and Zoe Rosenblum, Ph.D. Candidate at Oregon State University, for proofreading the final draft of the book.
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Earlier versions of portions of this book have appeared in the following publications: Governing the Nile Under Climatic Uncertainty: The Need for a Climate-Proof Basin-Wide Treaty, 59 Nat. Res. J. (2019), and Sink or Swim: Alternatives for Unlocking the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Dispute, 59 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. (2020).