Kebene Kejela Wodajo

Law & technology

Business & Human Rights/Business Ethics

International and human rights law

African human rights system and ethics

Theories and practice of structural injustice

Private ordering in algorithmic society

• Ph.D./S.J.D., Doctor of Laws, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (March 2019).
• M.A., & LL.M., Triple degree in European Master in Law & Economics, (Sep. 2017).
  • LL.M., Universität Hamburg with University of California at Berkeley
  • M.A., Aix-Marseille Université and
  • LL.M., Ghent University
• LL.M., International Law, (July 2013); LL.B., Laws, Mekelle University, (July 2008).

• Verantwortung/Responsibility: Corporate Responsibility In Sub-Saharan Africa - Health Care, Technology & Human Rights (spring 2022)
• Guest lecturer - on ‘business, human rights and technology in Sub-Saharan Africa’, part of a course - ‘Corporate Responsibility in Africa’ (2020 - spring, 2021).

• Member, Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, 2018 to present.
• Member, European Law and Economics Alumni and scholars, 2017 to present.
• Member, Swiss Society for African Studies, 2020 to present.
• Member, Black in AI, 2020 to present. 

• Kebene Wodajo, Putative Universality? The Globalisation of Legal Inclusion and Exclusion in the Data Value Chain, Edinburgh Global Law Conference, April 30-1 May 2026, Edinburgh, UK.
• Kebene Wodajo, Keynote on “Challenges and Ethical Questions Related to AI Driven Research” at Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships, 20 June 2025, Bern, Switzerland.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Duty of Care, Global Data Value Chain: a Subaltern Critique/re-reading?” presented at Polycritical Law, 8-9 May 2024, LSE Law School, UK.
• Kebene Wodajo, “A Structural Critique of the Digital Public Space” presentation at Re-imagining Digital Public Spaces for Democracy, 13-14 Feb. 2025, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law, Berline, Germany.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Data multiple” presented at Underworlds – Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering, 15-16 May 2024, LSE Law School and Queen Mary School of Law, UK.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Race as Technology / Technologies of Racialisation in International Law” chair at European Society of International Law Annual Conference, 5-6 Sep. 2024, Lithuania.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Law as a Structure: the Politics of Rights Discourse in AI Governance” presented at the ICON-S, 8-10 Jul. 2024, Spain.
• Kebene Wodajo, “The regulated capacity of the state and state violence on digital platforms” presented at the American Society of International Law Midyear meeting, 12 Nov. 2022, US.
• Kebene Wodajo, “The Responsibility of Victims: Towards Pluralistic People-centered Digital Justice” presented at European Society of International Law Annual Conference, 31 Aug. 2022, The Netherlands.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Platform governance during conflict: the case of Ethiopia” presented at Oxford Media Law and Policy Summer Institute, 8 Aug. 2022, UK.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Contested space and self-determination: The Dynamics of Ethiopia’s digital space” presented at VAD conference, 10 Jun. 2022, Germany.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Remedying adverse human rights impacts arising from Digital Technologies: a bird’s eye view” presented at OHCHR Multi-stakeholder Consultation on Access to Remedy in the Tech Sector, 23-24 September 2021, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Ebert, Isabel & Wodajo, Kebene, “Algorithms in the making - Addressing structural injustices in the data economy.” Women in Big Data. November 2021.
• Kebene Wodajo, “The Role of Tech-companies in Addressing Human Rights Risks in Africa,” Oral presentation at CCAR Launch, January 14-15, 2020, St.Gallen, Switzerland.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Handling the Costs of Litigation over Corporate Abuses,” in The Economic case for Promoting Human Right, Oral presentation at the 7th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, November 26-28, 2018, UN Geneva, Switzerland.
• Kebene Wodajo, “Multinational Enterprises’ Social Responsibility and Liability Rules: An Economic Analysis,” Oral presentation at The 3rd Business and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit in, April 19-20, 2018, New York University, New York, USA.