Vivienne O'Connor
Program Officer, Rule of Law Center of Innovation
International Law | Human Rights | Post-Conflict Reconstruction | Rule of Law
| International Organized Crime | Training
Phone: (202) 429-3898
E-mail: voconnor@usip.org
Vivienne O’Connor joined USIP as a rule of law adviser in the Rule of Law program, in 2007. Her
focus at USIP is on criminal justice reform and rule of law training. She works on a number of
related projects in Liberia, Nepal and Afghanistan. Before joining USIP, she worked at the Irish
Centre for Human Rights as its rule of law project officer and director of the Model Codes for
Post-Conflict Criminal Justice Project, a project run jointly with USIP. She is also a senior
fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, where she teaches criminal law and development.
She has worked as a consultant and a trainer for the U.N. and as a trainer for the European
Commission Advanced Rule of Law Training Course. She has also taught at the University of Melbourne
Law School and was an adjunct lecturer at the Medical School of the National University of Ireland,
Galway, from 2003 to 2005.
O’Connor has published several articles on rule of law reform in academic journals and also
co-authored several USIP publications. She holds a bachelor’s of civil law from the University
College Dublin and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in international human rights law from the
National University of Ireland, Galway.
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