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Anne Joseph O'Connell
Title: Assistant Professor of Law
Office: 433 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-9393
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: aoconnell@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Wanda Castillo
Anne Joseph O'Connell's primary areas of research are qualifications and tenure of agency officials; patterns of agency rulemaking; agency design and reorganization; agency oversight, including congressional hearings and U.S. Government Accountability Office auditing of policy programs; and science and the law. In 2006, she received an award from the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, which is given annually to "promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research," for her empirical project, Called to Account by Separated Powers: Regulatory Activity, Oversight, and Turnover of Federal Agency Leaders. At Boalt, she teaches Administrative Law, Advanced Administrative Law, and Civil Procedure. She has taught a graduate seminar, Politics, Economics, and Law of Administrative Agencies, in UC Berkeley's Department of Political Science.
O'Connell's publications have appeared (or are forthcoming) in the American Political Science Review, California Law Review, Southern California Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, among others. Her article, "Political Cycles of Rulemaking", won the Association of American Law Schools' 2007-2008 Scholarly Papers Competition for faculty members with fewer than five years of law teaching. She is currently working on an extensive collaborative project with Professor George Krause (University of Pittsburgh) on the loyalty and competence of agency officials from the past five completed administrations and the implications for their careers and agency performance.
Before joining the Boalt faculty, O'Connell clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court during the October 2003 term. From 2001 to 2003, she was a trial attorney for the Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division. She clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 2000 to 2001. O'Connell is a member of the New York bar.
Education:
B.A., Williams College (1992)M. Phil., Cambridge University (1995)
J.D., Yale Law School (2000)
Ph.D., Harvard University (2002)
