# Meetali Jain

Executive Director, Tech Justice Law. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. A lawyer who started out representing Guantanamo detainees now runs Tech Justice Law, which takes tech companies to court. ([techjusticelaw.org](https://techjusticelaw.org/about/))

- Education: BSFS, International development, peace and justice studies, Georgetown University ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meetali-jain-357ab829))
- Career: Tech Justice Law (Founder and Executive Director, 2023 to now); Reset Tech (Deputy Director, 2021–2023); University of San Francisco (Adjunct Professor of International Human Rights Law, 2018–2020); Avaaz (Legal and Campaign Director, 2017–2021); Constitutional Literacy and Service Initiative (Founder and Director, 2010–2017); University of Pretoria (Senior Researcher, 2014–2017); University of the Witwatersrand (Senior Researcher, 2013–2014); American University (Practitioner-in-Residence, International Human Rights Law Clinic, 2007–2010); Constitutional Court of South Africa (Judicial Law Clerk, 2005–2006); Goldstein Demchak (Associate, 2004–2006); Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (Attorney, 2003–2004); Morrison & Foerster (Associate, 2001–2003); U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Judicial Law Clerk, 2000–2001) ([techjusticelaw.org](https://techjusticelaw.org/about/), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/meetali-jain/), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meetali-jain-357ab829))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/meetali-jain/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/meetali-jain

- Began her legal career representing detainees accused of terrorism after 9/11, including at Guantanamo Bay. ([techjusticelaw.org](https://techjusticelaw.org/about/))
- Clerked for Justice Yvonne Mokgoro at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and taught law in clinics across South Africa. ([techjusticelaw.org](https://techjusticelaw.org/about/))
- Her group co-filed the first-ever lawsuits against an AI chatbot product, Character.AI, after a teenager's death in 2024. ([techjusticelaw.org](https://techjusticelaw.org/press-releases/meetali-jain-executive-director-of-tech-justice-law-named-to-time100-ai/))
- In May 2025 a federal judge ruled that Google and Character.AI must face her lawsuit; the companies settled in January 2026. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/meetali-jain/))
- In November 2025 her group and the Social Media Victims Law Center filed seven lawsuits against OpenAI over ChatGPT. ([peopleofsi.com](https://peopleofsi.com/people/meetali-jain/))
- Describes her team's role in AI cases simply: "I really see us as storytellers." ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/meetali-jain/))