Ifeoma Ajunwa
Assistant Professor at ILR School
Associate Professor of Law / Founding Director, AI Decision-Making Research Program at University of North Carolina School of Law
Schools
- ILR School
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Biography
ILR School
Overview
Professor Ajunwa is an Assistant Professor in the Organizational Behavior Department of Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations School. She earned her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. Her doctoral work received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Immediately prior to her positon at Cornell ILR School, she was a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University (where she remains a Faculty Associate) and served as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School. Professor Ajunwa researches the organizational behavior of organizations, particularly in relation to stigma/social evaluation, diversity, and the adoption of new technologies. Other related research interests include labor and employment law, as well as, business and society concerns. Professor Ajunwa’s research has been published or is under review in both law review and peer reviewed journals, including the California Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review, Organization Science, the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Research in the Sociology of Work, etc. Her research has been mentioned in major media outlets such as, the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Nature Biotechnology, etc. Professor Ajunwa has served as a keynote speaker or panelist at international conferences such as SXSW and has presented her work before governmental agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC). Please visit her personal website for an updated list of published research articles and op-eds, as well as, media mentions.
Her forthcoming book, “The Quantified Worker” will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Teaching Statement
Professor Ajunwa teaches Technology, Management, and the Law, Controversies in the Management of the Modern Workplace, and Ethics and Technology in the Workplace.
Service Statement
Professor Ajunwa serves on the advisory board of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP), and as an independent Principal Investigator for the Cornell Reentry Initiative. She serves on the editorial board of Research in the Sociology of Work and is a regular reviewer for the Academy of Management Conference.
Ifeoma Ajunwa joined Carolina Law in January of 2021 as an Associate Professor of Law with tenure. She is also the Founding Director of the AI Decision-Making Research Program. Professor Ajunwa has been Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School since 2017. Her research interests include: Race & the Law, Law & Technology, Employment & Labor Law, Health Law, etc. She has a budding interest in law & literature. Professor Ajunwa’s work is published or forthcoming in high impact factor law reviews of general interest: the California Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and Northwestern Law Review, as well as, the top law journals for specialty areas such as: anti-discrimination law (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review), employment and labor law (Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law), and law and technology (Harvard Journal of Law and Technology). She has published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, etc., and her research has been featured in major media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Guardian, the BBC, NPR, etc. In 2020, she testified before the U.S. Congressional Committee on Education and Labor, and has spoken before governmental agencies, such as, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC). In 2018, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) awarded Professor Ajunwa the Derrick A. Bell Award in recognition of her scholarly and teaching efforts addressing racial discrimination. In 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) selected her NSF CAREER Award proposal on automated hiring for funding. And in 2020, She received a pioneer grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to research genetic testing as part of workplace wellness programs.
Areas of Expertise
- Civil Rights and Discrimination
- Corporate Board Diversity
- Critical Legal Theory
- Critical Race Theory
- Health Law and Policy
- Intellectual Property Law
- Labor and Employment Law
- Law and Society
- Leadership
- Privacy Law
- Public Law and Legal Theory
- Race and the Law
- Science and Technology Law
- Women and the Law
Videos
Artificial Intelligence & Law Colloquium: Ifeoma Ajunwa
Ifeoma Ajunwa on the limitless boundaries of employee surveillance
Ifeoma Ajunwa on Universities & IP
Databite No. 41: Ifeoma Ajunwa
Ifeoma Ajunwa on The Quantified Worker
Controversies of Ethics & Technology in Modern Workplace | Ifeoma Ajunwa | TEDxCornellUniversity
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