Kebene Wodajo

Dr Kebene Wodajo is a law and technology scholar working at the intersection of law, technology, and business and human rights, with a particular focus on legal, moral, and political responsibility for data-mediated structural and intersectional injustice. Her broader research examines how law and sociotechnical systems, conceptualised as technologies of social ordering, structure accountability and responsibility in conditions of intersecting and normalised inequality, drawing on interdisciplinary and critical approaches.

She is an associate member and lecturer at the Institute for Business Ethics, University of St.Gallen, and an adjunct professor in the LL.M. in International and European Law Programme at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Previously, she was a senior researcher and lecturer at the Ethics, Technology and Society Group, ETH Zürich, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of St.Gallen, and a visiting lecturer of Law at Addis Ababa University School of Law. She has also been a visiting student researcher at UC Berkeley School of Law (Center for Law and Economics), where her work focused on the law and economics of multinational enterprises’ tort liability. From 2014 to 2017, she served as assistant editor of the Asian Journal of Law and Society.

Her research and teaching draw on critical international and human rights law, business and human rights, critical legal studies, decolonial and critical race theory, and Afro-communitarian philosophy. Kebene holds a Doctorate, SJD/PhD in Laws (major in International Law) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a European Master in Law and Economics triple degree LL.M, M.A. & LL.M. from the University of Hamburg with UC Berkeley, Aix-Marseille Université, and Ghent University, an LL.M. in International Law, Wuhan University and an LL.B. in Law from Mekelle University.