Center for Law & the Economy Workshop: Kushagr Bakshi (Tulane Law)
"Form and Substance in Trade Law Adjudication: Subsidies, State Action, and a Cosmopolitan Vision of Trade Regulation"
Murphy Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
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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. The Spring 2026 workshop series, co-convened by Associate Professor of Law and Murphy Affiliate Faculty Mateusz Grochowski, will focus on themes in consumer law, broadly construed.
Kushagr Bakshi is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in the Center on Law and the Economy (CLE) and Tulane Law School. Professor Kushagr is interested in structural themes across constitutional law which focus on the distribution and allocation of power. Using insights from comparative constitutional law and history, his work has two major strands: One focuses on mechanisms of institutional and federal design which help in strengthening democratic decision making in plural societies and best serve minority communities. The second strand focuses on institutional and interpretive differences between varieties of constitutional thought and practice, at the national and supranational level.
He has previously worked as foreign law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, a research assistant for the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights and as an associate at a major law firm in India.
His work appears in the European Yearbook of Constitutional Law: Varieties of Constitutionalism (forthcoming, 2025), the Michigan Law Review, the Journal of Comparative Law, the Harvard International Law Journal Online, and Verfassungsblog.
