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Name
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Najarian R. Peters
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Bio
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Najarian R. Peters joined the KU Law faculty in summer 2020. Peters teaches torts as well as two privacy courses she created: Privacy Law and The Practice of Privacy Law. Peters’ work and scholarship focuses on privacy policy, law, governance, and emerging technology. Peters is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the KU Law faculty, she was the Inaugural Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Law at the Institute for Privacy Protection at Seton Hall Law School where she was the architect of its structure, operations and program portfolio. In 2020, Peters created PrivacyPraxis, an annual conference that brings together scholars, practitioners, and advocates from a cross-section of disciplines to discuss privacy law and policy. Peters’ scholarly articles have been published in the 5Rights Foundation/Digital Futures Commission, Michigan Journal of Race & Law, University of California Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and Seton Hall Law Review. Peters has three books forthcoming. Her first monograph will be published by University of California Press, in January 2024 and is titled Marronage and Modernity: Privacy, Technology, and Black Liberation. Additionally, Peters is the author of a forthcoming treatise on Kansas Tort/Personal Injury Law with Lexis Nexis Publishing and is the co-author of a forthcoming case-book tentatively titled Race and Privacy with West Publishing. Peters was named a co-principal investigator in 2021 for the Stories For All grant funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant funds her first work in the digital humanities titled The Jurisprudence and Child Privacy Praxis of Black and Native Home Education.
Peters earned her J.D. at Notre Dame Law School where she created and taught the seminar in the Center for Social Concerns, Environmental Human Rights in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and was the recipient of the Joseph Ciraolo Memorial Award and Africana Studies Book Award. She received her B.A. at Xavier University of Louisiana.
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Affiliation
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University of Kansas
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Position
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Faculty
