Ifeoma Ajunwa
Pronounced:
Ee-Faw-mah Ah-JUh-wah
Dr. Ajunwa is an award-winning tenured law professor and a graduate of Yale Law School (LL.M) and Columbia University (Ph.D). She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory School of Law and former Associate Dean for Projects and Partnerships. She is also the Founding Director of the A.I. and Future of Work Program. Prior to her position at Emory University, she earned tenure in 2020 in the Labor Relations, Law, and History Department of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School (ILR) where she received the Junior Faculty Champion Award. She was a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University in 2016 and has been a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University since 2017. She is an Affiliated Fellow of the Yale Law School’s ISP and Senior Corresponding Fellow at Yale Law School’s Center for Private Law. Dr. Ajunwa is a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and a 2018 recipient of the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). She has worked as advisory board member or consultant on AI technologies with Fortune 500 tech companies.
Dr. Ajunwa’s research interests are at the intersection of law and technology with a particular focus on the ethical governance of AI technologies. Dr. Ajunwa’s book, The Quantified Worker, which examines the role of technology in the workplace and its effects on management practices as moderated by employment law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. Dr.Ajunwa is a Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research Network. She has also previously served as a Board member for the Institute for Africa Development (IAD) at Cornell and for the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).
Dr. Ajunwa’s scholarly articles have been published or are forthcoming in both top law review and peer reviewed publications. She has been published by the following law publications: the Yale Law Journal, The California Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal (twice), the UCLA Law Review, Cardozo Law Review (twice), Fordham Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, the North Carolina Law Review, etc. She has been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress (Committee on Education and Labor), governmental agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC), and has served as a keynote speaker at several national and international conferences. Dr. Ajunwa is a public intellectual whose writing have been published in popular media such as the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Harvard Business Review, the ACLU Blog, etc. She was also a former Contributor for Forbes.
Other activities: Serving on corporate boards, film-making, law and film, law and literature, readings (historical fiction, science fiction, literary fiction), writing fiction and screenplays