As a research fellow at the University of Virginia’s  Karsh Institute of Democracy, D. Tinashé Hofisi is working in partnership with the UVA School of Law’s Karsh Center for Law and Democracy and the University of Wisconsin Law School to conduct and guide research associated with the “50 Constitutions” project. 

Hofisi joined UVA from New York University, where he was a Hauser Global Fellow. He holds a doctoral degree in comparative constitutional law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and certificates in constitution-building and strategic human rights litigation from the Central European University. His research interests include judicial design, presidential elections, constitutionalism, and courts as sites for human rights enforcement. Hofisi’s contributed a paper on presidential election petitions in apex African courts to the Research Handbook on Constitutions and Democracy and a chapter on negative enforcement of social rights in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Prior to pursing his doctoral studies, Hofisi was a litigation attorney with the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, and appeared in Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court as lead counsel, co-counsel, and amicus curiae.