Mekonnen Firew Ayano A S S O C I ATE P R O F E S S O R S.J.D., Harvard Law School LL.M. American University (Cairo, Egypt) LL.B., Addis Ababa University
(716) 645-5134
mfayano@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST PROPERTY LAW IMMIGRATION LAW NATURAL RESOURCES ENERGY LAW
My research focuses on
HUMAN RIGHTS
property rules and social
GLOBALIZATION & LEGAL PROFESSION
practices to analyze the
LAW & DEVELOPMENT
distributive outcomes for various social groups in different settings. I
ARTICLES
have written, drawing on
Tenants without Rights: Immigrants’
ethnography, about rural land
Experiences in the U.S. Low-Income
registration and distributive
Housing Market, 28 Georgetown
outcomes for women,
Journal on Poverty Law
smallholders, and pastoralists;
and Policy 159 (2021).
conflicts connected to law and land inequality in emerging
Law and Social Conflict in
market economies; and
Transitional Market Economies,
immigrant tenants and housing
18 International Journal of
law in major U.S. cities. My
Constitutional Law 988 (2020).
ongoing research considers the steadily intensifying China-
Rural Land Registration in Ethiopia:
Africa ties in relation to land,
Myths and Realities, 52 Law and
labor, and the legal profession.”
Society Review 1060 (2018). BOOK REVIEWS Book Review, 89 Journal of the International African Institute 202 (2019) (reviewing William Beinart et al., Rights to Land: A Guide to Tenure Upgrading and Restitution in South Africa (Jacana Media 2017)).
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