Erin O'Hara O'Connor
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics
Voice: (615) 322-3025
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: erin.ohara@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 244
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Links
- SSRN Page
- Law & Economics PhD Program
- Cecil D. Branstetter Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
Media Links
- Truth on the Market invited blog entry, December 2010
- Contracts Roundtable invited blog entry, July 2011
Research Interest(s)
Choice of law; conflict of laws; dispute resolution; international contracts
Education
J.D. Georgetown University
B.A. University of Rochester
Biography
Erin O’Hara O’Connor is a leading scholar in the field of conflict of laws. Her most recent work includes three books and a series of significant articles on choice of law, as well as articles that examine the influence of law on apology in dispute resolution and that address the influence of law on interpersonal trust in relationships. Professor O'Connor taught at George Mason University School of Law from 1995 to 2001, when she joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty. In fall 2005, she was a visiting professor at Northwestern Law School. Prior to joining the George Mason faculty, Professor O'Connor clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, as a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and as a visiting assistant professor in the departments of Legal Studies, Economics and Finance at Clemson University. She served as Vanderbilt Law School’s associate dean for academic affairs from 2008-10. She was named Director of Graduate Studies for the Law and Economics Ph.D. Program in 2011. Professor O’Connor has also served as the chair of the AALS Section on Conflict of Laws and as director of Vanderbilt’s Law and Human Behavior Program. She is a research associate at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, and is a visiting fellow at Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munchen, Center for Advanced Studies in fall 2011.
Representative Publications
Books
Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2011) (with R. Lea Brilmayer and Jack Goldsmith)
The Law Market, Oxford Publishing (2009) (with Larry Ribstein)
The Economics of Conflict of Laws, 2 volumes, Elgar Publishing (2007)
Articles
"Preemption and Choice-of-Law Coordination," Michigan Law Review (forthcoming 2012) (with Larry Ribstein)
"Customizing Employment Arbitration," Iowa Law Review (forthcoming 2012) (with Randall Thomas and Ken Martin)
"Arbitration Clauses in CEO Employment Contracts: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis," 63 Vanderbilt Law Review 959 (2010) (with Randall S. Thomas and Kenneth J. Martin)
"Group Conflict Resolution: Sources of Resistance to Reconciliation," 72 Law & Contemporary Problems i (2009) (special editor for volume)
"A Cognitive Theory of Trust," 84 Washington University Law Quarterly 1717 (2007) (with Claire A. Hill)
"Choice of Law for Internet Transactions: The Uneasy Case for Online Consumer Protection," 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1883 (2005)
"Economics, Public Choice, and the Perennial Conflict of Laws," 90 Georgetown Law Journal 941 (2002)
"On Apology and Consilience," 77 Washington Law Review 1121 (2002) (with Douglas Yarn)
"From Politics to Efficiency in Choice of Law," 67 University of Chicago Law Review 1151 (2000) (with Larry Ribstein)
"Opting Out of Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis of Contractual Choice of Law," 53 Vanderbilt Law Review 1551 (2000)
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