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Jamie O'Connell
Title: Lecturer in Residence; Program Officer
Office: 585 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-642-1438
Fax: 510-643-2362
Email Address: joconnell@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Wanda Castillo
Jamie O'Connell is Lecturer in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and Program Officer in the School's International Human Rights Law Clinic. He has worked on human rights and development in over a dozen countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, under the auspices of the United Nations, local and international non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions. He has particular expertise in transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, democratic political development, and business and human rights. O'Connell has directed the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Sierra Leone and served as a clinical instructor in human rights at Harvard Law School. Since 2005 he has taught a seminar on transitional justice at Berkeley Law. He clerked for the Honorable James R. Browning on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and is admitted to practice in California (inactive status) and New York.
O'Connell's publications include "East Timor 1999," in The Responsibility to Protect: Moving the Campaign Forward (2007); "Gambling with the Psyche: Does Prosecuting Human Rights Violators Console Their Victims?" (Harvard International Law Journal, 2005); "Here Interest Meets Humanity: How to End the War and Support Reconstruction in Liberia, and the Case for Modest American Leadership" (Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2004); and Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Special Court: A Citizen's Handbook (with Paul James-Allen and Sheku B.S. Lahai, 2003).
Education:
A.B, Harvard College (1994)J.D., Yale Law School (2002)
