Ngozi Okidegbe is an 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. She also was recognized with a Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship, which she held from 2022 to 2025.
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 Bachelor of Civil Law and a Bachelor of Laws from McGill University’s Faculty of Law. She subsequently earned her 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, Wisconsin Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Michigan Law Review.