AUTHOR & PROFESSOR

About Adediran

Professor Atinuke Adediran, J.D., Ph.D., is an award-winning, empirically grounded scholar of corporate governance and business regulation.

Professor Adediran’s scholarship sits at the intersection of corporate governance and business regulation. She examines how corporate policies, governance practices, and public commitments shape decision making on contested social and environmental issues, generating reputational, financial, and legal consequences for firms, and influencing broader social outcomes. 

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, Law and Social Inquiry, Northwestern Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and UCLA Law Review. Her work has also been featured in popular outlets like Bloomberg Law, Fortune, Marketplace, and The Wall Street Journal.

Professor Adediran’s work has won many awards, including from 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. In 2023, she received the university-wide Distinguished Research Award for Interdisciplinary Studies at Fordham University.

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 & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago. Prior to entering academia, she was an Associate in the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where she represented clients in complex commercial business disputes with a focus on securities litigation and maintained active pro bono practice. 

Professor Adediran holds Ph.D. and MA degrees in Sociology from Northwestern University and received her JD degree from Columbia Law School.