Columbia Law School Faculty Tenured in 2024

Two legal scholars joined Columbia's tenured faculty in 2024, including Daniel Abebe, the 16th dean of Columbia Law School. Tenure is a distinction that recognizes scholarly excellence, demonstrated capacity for imaginative, original work, and great promise for continued contributions at the leading edge of one's field.

Daniel Abebe

Daniel Abebe

Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Daniel Abebe is the Dean of Columbia Law School and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law. Before joining Columbia, Dean Abebe was vice provost for academic affairs and governance at the University of Chicago from 2018 to 2024. He was the Harold J. and Marion F. Green Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as deputy dean from 2016 to 2018.

Dean Abebe’s scholarship centers on the relationship between the constitutional law of U.S. foreign affairs and public international law. His research has been published in leading academic journals, such as International Studies Quarterly, The University of Chicago Law Review, The Supreme Court Review, and the Stanford, Chicago, Virginia, and University of Pennsylvania journals of international law, and he has presented at conferences and symposia around the world. Dean Abebe has taught Property, Foreign Relations Law, Conflict of Laws, Public International Law, and Legal Issues in International Transactions.

Dean Abebe is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Higher Learning Commission. He earned his JD from Harvard University and his PhD from the University of Chicago. He joined the Columbia faculty in 2024.

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Madhav Khosla

Madhav Khosla

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Professor of Indian Constitutional Law

Madhav Khosla is a leading scholar of comparative constitutional law, focusing on, among other things, the Indian Constitution as a point of reference for understanding global constitutional law.

Trained in political theory and with deep knowledge of the law, politics, and intellectual history of India, his overall scholarly project is to examine the relationship among constitutional design, post-colonial democracy and more recent trends toward populist authoritarianism. Some of his standout scholarly works include his 2020 book publication, India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of the Most Surprising Democracy, which not only conducts an intellectual history of the founding of the Indian Constitution, but also places that history in conversation with Western political theories of liberal democracy. Dr. Khosla also intervenes in the field methodologically. Published in the Harvard Law Review, the methodological paper, “Is Science of Comparative Constitutionalism Possible?” exposes the assumptions in the field of comparative law, including a “positivist trend” rooted in the reliance on large datasets, and argues for the need to consider context and the realities of difference for the effective study of comparative constitutionalism.

Dr. Khosla earned his PhD from Harvard University. He served on the faculty of Ashoka University before joining the Columbia faculty in 2022.

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