Dr. Jamie O Connell

Biography

Jamie O'Connell is a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches and writes on political and legal development, specializing in law and development, transitional justice, democratization, and post-conflict reconstruction with a focus on business and human rights. O'Connell served as a Senior Fellow at the Honorable G. William Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught undergraduate law students. He has extensive experience in human rights development across a dozen countries spanning Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, working under the auspices of the United Nations and with various local and international non-governmental organizations and academic institutions. O’Connell co-founded International Professional Partnerships in Sierra Leone, an NGO aimed at enhancing the performance of civil service agencies. His career also includes roles as a researcher at Harvard Business School, directing the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Sierra Leone, and visiting positions at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. He clerked for the Honorable James R. Browning on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and has been admitted to practice in California (inactive status) and New York. O'Connell was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Valencia in Spain. His scholarly works encompass various publications on human rights and international law.

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