Vanderbilt University Law School
Erin A. O'Hara
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Director, Law & Human Behavior Program Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 322-3025
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: erin.ohara@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 108
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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's most recent work includes two books and a series of important articles on choice of law, as well as articles on the influence of law on apology in dispute resolution and articles on the influence of law on interpersonal trust in relationships. She was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in August 2008. Dean O’Hara taught at George Mason University School of Law from 1995 until she joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2001. In fall 2005, she was a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Law School. Prior to joining the George Mason faculty, Dean O’Hara clerked for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 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.
Representative Publications
Books
The Economics of Conflict of Laws, Elgar Publishing (2007)
The Law Market, Oxford Publishing (forthcoming 2008) (with Larry Ribstein)
Articles
"A Cognitive Theory of Trust," 84 Washington University Law Quarterly 1717 (2007) (with Claire A. Hill)
"Opting Out of Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis of Contractual Choice of Law," 53 Vanderbilt Law Review 1551 (2007)
"How Neuroscience Might Advance the Law," 359 Philosophical Transactions 1677 (2004). Reprinted in Law & the Brain 21 (S. Zeki & O. Goodenough eds., Oxford University Press, 2006)
"Choice of Law for Internet Transactions: The Uneasy Case for Online Consumer Protection," 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1883 (2005)
"Apology and Thick Trust: What Spouse Abusers and Negligent Doctors Might Have in Common," 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1055 (2004)
"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)
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