Tifani Sadek

Faculty Director

Professor Tifani Sadek is the Faculty Director of the Law and Mobility Program and the Editor-in-Chief of its Journal of Law and Mobility. She is also a clinical assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she directs the Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic. 

In addition to her roles at Michigan Law, Professor Sadek serves on the leadership team of Mcity, the University of Michigan’s test facility for connected and automated vehicles. As chair of Mcity’s legal working group, she leads attorneys and researchers from industry, government, and academia to foster a wide range of research on law and policy as they relate to this burgeoning technology.

Immediately prior to joining the Law School faculty, Professor Sadek was an attorney at General Motors, where she served as lead counsel on the expansion of connected vehicles into South America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. While at General Motors, she also supported connected vehicle operations and negotiated transactions related to data sharing.

Articles by Tifani Sadek

  • Keep the Driver in Driverless Cars

    Let’s take a few cues from the aviation industry. As a law professor who studies mobility, I spend many waking hours thinking about fully automated vehicles, those cars that drive themselves without any need for a human operator. As a true believer in this technology, I think the widespread deployment…