Najarian R. Peters

Najarian R. Peters is a scholar and law professor who researches in the areas of privacy, torts, education, artificial intelligence governance (AI) ethics, and governance.  Professor Peters has been a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University since 2019.  Her work centers liberatory and human dignity centered frameworks and is interdisciplinary. She provides continuing legal education in AI Ethics and has been invited to present her AI and child privacy research both domestically and internationally including the Gamm Symposium at Tulane University and the Second Istanbul Privacy Symposium: Law, Ethics, and Technology, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.  She developed and designed a new course for the KU honors program called AI Governance and Privacy Law.  Her forthcoming publication co-authored with David Tamez, PhD is titled Liberatory Technologies:  A Framework for AI Legitimacy in Education.  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 privacy focused conference called PrivacyPraxis in 2020 and co-designed the Wellness in Democracy series at KU that she has co-hosted since 2022, focused on misinformation and disinformation. Professor Peters is the inaugural AI Governance and Law fellow at the Center for Cyber Social Dynamics.