Anne Joseph O'Connell

Anne Joseph O'Connell is an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches administrative law. She has a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University. Her primary areas of research are qualifications and tenure of agency officials; patterns of agency rulemaking; agency design and reorganization; and agency oversight, including congressional hearings and U.S. Government Accountability Office auditing of policy programs. Joseph 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.