Professor Daniel Abebe

Daniel Abebe is Deputy Dean, Harold J. and Marion F. Green Professor of Law, and Walter Mander Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. His scholarship focuses primarily on the relationship between the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations, public international law, and international politics. Abebe currently teaches property, foreign relations law, conflict of laws, and public international law. He has previously taught international trade law, legal issues in international transactions, and refugee and asylum law. Abebe earned a B.A. from Maryville University of St. Louis, a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He clerked for Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and later worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City.