Faith Majekolagbe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She teaches intellectual property law and entrepreneurial law at the Faculty of Law and pioneered the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic. She will also be teaching AI Law & Ethics in the 2023/24 academic year. Faith’s research interests include intellectual property law, the intersection of law, technology & public interest, artificial intelligence law & ethics, open access, open data, open science, data mining and machine learning. She emphasises the role of legal rules and policies in providing opportunities for human flourishing.
She is a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights, Academic Network on the Right to Research in International Copyright, Open African Innovation Research Network, and Intellectual Property and Innovation Researchers of Asia.
Prior to joining the University of Alberta, Majekolagbe was a Schulich Fellow at Dalhousie University and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany.
