Atinuke Adediran

Atinuke (Tinu) Adediran’s is an Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Her areas of expertise include corporations, race and the law, nonprofits, and law and social science. Professor Adediran has published articles and essays in leading law review and peer reviewed journals, including the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Virginia Law Review, and UCLA Law Review, among others. She has also published in popular outlets such as Bloomberg Law and the Conversation. She is working on a book project on how large companies use disclosures to establish a race-conscious public image and treat claims of systemic racism in their business as social risk. Her work has been recognized by awards and grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Before joining the Fordham Law faculty, Professor Adediran was an Earl B. Dickerson Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, and the David and Pamela Donohue Assistant Professor of Business Law at Boston College Law School. She was previously 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 an active pro bono practice. Professor Adediran holds PhD and MA degrees in Sociology from Northwestern University, where she was a Ford Foundation Fellow, and received her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Education

Ph.D., M.A. Northwestern University
J.D. Columbia University School of Law
B.S. Long Island University

Selected Publications

Disclosing Corporate Diversity, 109 Virginia Law Review (Forthcoming, 2023).

Disclosures for Equity, 122 Columbia Law Review 865 (2022).

Nonprofit Board Composition, 89 Ohio State Law Journal 357 (2022).

Racial Allies, 90 Fordham Law Review 2151 (2022).

Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners and Counsels in Large Law Firms, 47 Law and Social Inquiry 635 (2022) (peer reviewed).

Corporate Accountability and Worker Empowerment, 69 Ucla Law Review Discourse 178 (2022) (invited book review).

The Racial Reckoning of Public Interest Law, 21 California Law Review Online 1 (2021) (with Shaun Ossei-Owusu) (invited symposium essay)

Media Appearances

The Big Idea: Combating Inequality in the Nonprofit Sector with Associate Professor Atinuke Adediran: https://vimeo.com/645372863