AUTHOR & PROFESSOR

About Adediran

Professor Atinuke Adediran, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning, empirically grounded scholar of corporate governance and business regulation whose work examines how law and corporations shape institutional accountability and social outcomes.

Professor Adediran is an interdisciplinary scholar and Professor of Law at Fordham University. Her research examines corporations as legal, political, and social institutions, with a focus on corporate governance, business regulation, and social accountability. Drawing on empirical social science methods, computational text analysis, Natural Language Processing, and Large Language Models, she studies how corporate policies, governance practices, and public commitments shape decision-making on contested social and environmental issues, with consequences for firms, law, markets, and society.

Professor Adediran is the author of Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress, published by Cambridge University Press in 2026. She has also published articles and essays in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and others. Her work has been featured in public-facing outlets including Bloomberg Law, Fortune, Marketplace, and The Wall Street Journal.

Professor Adediran’s research has been supported and recognized by the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She has also received Fordham University’s Distinguished Research Award for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Before joining Fordham, Professor Adediran was the David and Pamela Donohue Assistant Professor of Business Law at Boston College Law School and an Earl B. Dickerson Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Before entering academia, she was an Associate in the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where she represented clients in complex commercial disputes, with a focus on securities litigation, and maintained an active pro bono practice.

Professor Adediran holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.