Center for Law & the Economy Workshop: Behirun Gebeye (University College London)

Center for Law and the Economy Workshop Series 

The Murphy Institute's Center for Law and the Economy hosts workshops each semester featuring Tulane and guest faculty from the fields of law, economics, and political science. Presenters share their latest research on a range of topics, including regulation, civil rights, the criminal legal system, and other key issues in law and political economy. Papers are distributed beforehand to the participants who read the paper and prepare discussion questions for the presenter.

The workshops, organized by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community. 

Dr Berihun Gebeye is a Lecturer in Law in the Faculty of Laws, University College London, where his research and teaching center on public law with a particular focus on constitutional law, human rights, and international law. He uses theoretical, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches and materials to study the law and politics of constitutional government. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Prior to joining UCL Laws, he was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. He earned an S.J.D./Ph.D. in Comparative Constitutional Law (summa cum laude) from the Central European University and law and human rights degrees from Haramaya University (LLB), Addis Ababa University (LLM), and Central European University (LLM).

He is the author of A Theory of African Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2021), winner of the 2021 International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism Book of the Year Prize in the Constitutional Theory category and of the 2023 ICON•S Book Prize Honorable Mention. The book offers a new theoretical framework for understanding constitutions and constitutionalism in Africa. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Global Constitutionalism, and Comparative Constitutional and is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of African Constitutions with Professor Richard Albert (under contract with Oxford University Press).