CLE Workshop: "Empowering the Public in Algorithm Governance"
Ngozi Okidegbe
Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
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The Murphy Institute's Center on Law and the Economy hosts workshops each semester featuring both Tulane and guest faculty in law, economics, and political science who present their latest research in regulation, civil rights, the criminal legal system, and other key issues in law and the economy. Hosted by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, CLE workshops are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community.
Ngozi Okidegbe is a Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences. Her focus is in the areas of law and technology, evidence, criminal procedure, and racial justice. Her work examines how the use of predictive technologies in the criminal justice system impacts racially marginalized communities.
Professor Okidegbe is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and an Affiliated Fellow at Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She is also on the program committee of the Privacy Law Scholars’ Conference and serves on the advisory board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Prior to joining Boston University, Professor Okidegbe was an Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, where she first joined as the inaugural Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor in 2019. Before joining Cardozo, Professor Okidegbe served as a law clerk for Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and for the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She also practiced at CaleyWray, a labor law boutique in Toronto. Professor Okidegbe holds a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, where she graduated as a James Kent Scholar.
Professor Okidegbe’s articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Critical Analysis of Law, Connecticut Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Michigan Law Review.
