Mary Ellen O'Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School[1] and a research professor of international dispute resolution at Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace in Studies.
Prior to joining Notre Dame's faculty, she taught at Ohio State University (1999–2005), as the William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law in the Moritz College of Law[3] and was a senior fellow of the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security and Public Policy.
[citation needed] She received a British Marshall Scholarship, a German Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, a Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law (Cambridge)/MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a U.S. Army Certificate of Achievement, funding from the Mershon Center (OSU) and the Kroc Institute (ND) for an international/inter-disciplinary conference "What is War?
Her latest solo-authored book is The Art of Law in the International Community (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
[citation needed] During the 2014–2015 academic year, O'Connell served as the Senior Templeton Foundation Legal Scholar at the Center of Theological Inquiry/Law and Public Affairs (Princeton).