Wanjiru Njoya

Wanjiru Njoya (UK/KE) is a native of Kenya and earned her Ph.D. in Law from Cambridge University (UK) where she was a Rhodes Scholar at the university’s St. Edmund’s College. Prof. Njoya currently works as the Walter E. Williams Research Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a think tank in Auburn (AL). She is also a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and has previously taught at various law schools in the UK including the University of Exeter, the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics (LSE) or and Queen’s University in Canada. She has published widely on issues of individual liberty and economic freedom in the context of labor market regulation.

Her work appeared among others in the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy or the Journal of Libertarian Studies. Dr. Njoya is the author of Economic Freedom and Social Justice: The Classical Ideal of Equality in Contexts of Racial Diversity (2021). Her most recent publications include Redressing Historical Injustice: Self-Ownership, Property Rights and Economic Equality (2023, with David Gordon) and “You Stole Our Land: Common Law, Private Property, and Rothbardian Principles of Justice” (2024).