Ifeoma Ajunwa

Ifeoma Ajunwa, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, serves as Associate Dean for Projects and Partnerships and Founding Director of the AI and the Future of Work Program. She earned her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2007, LL.M. from Yale Law School in 2024, Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 2017, M.Phil. from Columbia in 2012, and B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Davis in 2003. Before joining Emory in 2023, Ajunwa held a tenured position as Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law from 2021 to 2023, where she founded the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research Program. She was also Associate Professor at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations from 2020 to 2021, Assistant Professor at the University of the District of Columbia Law School from 2014 to 2017, and held fellowships at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School's Berkman Klein Center, and Columbia Law School.

Ajunwa's research examines law and technology, AI and ethics, privacy law, employment and labor law, and related fields. She is the author of The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Governance and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2025). Selected publications include "A.I. and Captured Capital" (Yale Law Journal Forum, forthcoming 2025), "Automated Governance" (101 N.C. L. Rev. 355, 2023), "Automated Video Interviewing as the New Phrenology" (36 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1173, 2022), and "The Auditing Imperative for Automated Hiring" (34 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 621, 2021). Her awards include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2019), Derrick A. Bell Award from the Association of American Law Schools (2018), election to the American Law Institute (2023), Life Fellowship in the American Bar Foundation (2023), and Fulbright Scholarship (2021-2022). Ajunwa has testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, contributed op-eds to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review, and holds positions as Senior Correspondence Fellow at Yale Law School's Center for the Study of Private Law and Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.

Professional Email: iajunwa@emory.edu