Mekonnen Firew Ayano

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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 HUMAN RIGHTS GLOBALIZATION & LEGAL PROFESSION LAW & DEVELOPMENT

ARTICLES Tenants without Rights: Immigrants’ Experiences in the U.S. Low-Income Housing Market, 28 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 159 (2021).

Law and Social Conflict in Transitional Market Economies, 18 International Journal of Constitutional Law 988 (2020).

Rural Land Registration in Ethiopia: Myths and Realities, 52 Law and 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)). My research focuses on property rules and social practices to analyze the distributive outcomes for various social groups in different settings. I have written, drawing on ethnography, about rural land registration and distributive outcomes for women, smallholders, and pastoralists; conflicts connected to law and land inequality in emerging market economies; and immigrant tenants and housing law in major U.S. cities. My ongoing research considers the steadily intensifying ChinaAfrica ties in relation to land, labor, and the legal profession.”