Ifeoma Ajunwa
Pronounced:
Ee-Faw-mah Ah-JUh-wah
Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., LL.M, Ph.D., an award-winning tenured law professor, is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School, Founding Director of the AI and Future of Work Program, and the former Associate Dean for Projects and Partnerships. In 2026, she received The Provost’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education. She was also named among the top 50 legal innovators in academia in 2026. Dr. Ajunwa is an expert in AI Law and Privacy Law and has testified before the U.S. Congress, advised U.S. governmental agencies like the FTC and the EEOC, and worked with international bodies like the ILO and OECD. Her prolific publication history includes her first book, The Quantified Worker, published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press, which focuses on AI technologies in the workplace. Her second book, The Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Governanceand the Law (co-authored with Prof. Jeremias Adams-Prassl) was published by Oxford University Press in 2025. She has also published nearly 30 articles in both top law review and high impact factor peer review publications. She is an engaged public intellectual who has published op-eds in the NYTimes, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Forbes, Slate, Harvard Business Review, etc. She has also provided legal commentary for National Public Radio (NPR), The Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, etc. She is a regular keynote speaker and has been invited for panels (including at SXSW) and endowed lectures at universities and corporations in both the United States and internationally. She has served as ethical tech advisory board member and consulted for Fortune 500 tech companies. Dr. Ajunwa is a graduate of Yale Law School (LL.M.) and Columbia University (Ph.D.).
Ajunwa’s recent law review publications include “The Artificial Intelligence Commission” (Georgetown Law Journal), “Provenance” (UCLA Law Review), and “AI and Captured Capital” (Yale Law Journal forum). She has also been published in the California Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, and the top specialty journals for her field including the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, the Berkely Journal of Technology, and the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. Her peer review publications can be found in the American Journal of Law and Equality, the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Nature, PLOS One, and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).