Najarian R. Peters earned her J.D. at Notre Dame Law School and her B.A. at Xavier University of Louisiana. Professor Peters’ research focuses on privacy law, child law, home-education, emerging technology and legal history.
Since 2018, she has been a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She teaches the following courses: Marginalized Bodies in Literature, Medicine, and Law; Torts; Privacy Law; and The Practice of Privacy Law. She has recently developed a course called AI, Ethics and the Law. In addition to the Kansas Personal Injury Law treatise for LexisNexis published in 2024, she currently has two additional book projects: tentatively titled Privacy, Racial and Gender Marginality, and Marronage in Modernity: Privacy, Technology, and Black Liberation.
Her law articles and essays have been published in national and international journals including the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, University of California Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and Seton Hall Law Review, as well as the 5Rights Foundation’s Digital Futures Commission publication Education Data Futures: Critical, Regulator and Practical Reflections. Professor Peters created the new privacy focused conference PrivacyPraxis in 2020 and co-designed the Wellness in Democracy series at KU that she has co-hosted since 2022, which focuses on misinformation and disinformation. Professor Peters was recognized as the Linda D. Ferrell and Richard C. Tombari Honors Faculty Fellow at the University of Kansas in fall of 2023. Professor Peters is also the inaugural faculty fellow in AI Governance at the Center for Cyber Social Dynamics at KU.