Erin A. O'Hara O'Connor
Dean and Donald J. Weidner Chair
Florida State University College of Law
Erin O’Hara O’Connor is dean and the Donald J. Weidner Chair at the Florida State University College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
Her research and teaching focus on law & economics, conflict of laws, arbitration, and the interaction between legal rules and human behavior. Her scholarship examines how legal regimes compete and how institutional design shapes dispute resolution and governance. She co-authored the book “The Law Market” and co-edited “The Economics of Conflict of Laws,” and is also a co-author of the casebook “Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials.”
O’Hara O’Connor previously taught at Vanderbilt Law School, where she served as director of the Law and Human Behavior Program, associate dean for academic affairs, and director of graduate studies for the Ph.D. Program in law & economics. Before that, she was on the faculty of George Mason University School of Law. Earlier in her career, she held visiting appointments at Northwestern University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center, served as a visiting assistant professor at Clemson University, and was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School. She began her legal career clerking for Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Her distinctions include election to the Order of the Coif and the Tamm Memorial Award for outstanding legal scholarship, as well as a university award for excellence in law teaching.
She earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and a bachelor’s from the University of Rochester.
