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Mohammed Alshuwaiter is a legal consultant specialized in international law, human rights, and Yemeni law. He was a Fulbright-Humphrey scholar in law and human rights in Washington, DC, and has an LLM in international legal studies from American University Washington College of Law. Mohammed has provided consulting services to a number of international organizations, including the World Bank. He completed his law degree in Yemen, where he worked as a constitutional consultant with the Rapporteur of the Constitutional Drafting Committee and a legal researcher with the Ministry of Justice.
President Hadi and the future of legitimacy in Yemen
What is the future of legitimacy in Yemen? The question of what would happen if President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi were to die has been an unspoken concern for the past several years. It is important to address the question of legitimacy after Hadi because the constitutional rules on how to transfer his authority to a successor and how to avoid a presidential vacuum are impractical given the ongoing conflict.
