Karen Hall is the Deputy Executive Director for the Rule of Law Collaborative (ROLC). She has championed an ethos of innovative reform work and training methodology within the organization. Ms. Hall has designed and led a significant portion of the JUSTRAC program training curriculum—providing the federal government workforce engaged in rule of law reform with knowledge and practical skills to help them in their service assignments. Her training focuses are currently Comparative Law, Criminal Law, Anti-Corruption, Country Analysis, and Program Development. Her audience participation teaching methods have made her a sought-after trainer on rule of law topics. In addition to the workshop and core training she conducts, Ms. Hall flipped the traditional training modality into a truly learner-led experience by designing the gamified “Heist” simulation series. She has led rule of law programs focused on Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bangladesh, and Mongolia.
Previously, Ms. Hall was an Associate Professor and Director of the LL.M. program in Democratic Governance and Rule of Law at the Ohio Northern University (ONU) Pettit College of Law, where she taught courses on Rule of Law, anti-corruption, comparative law, program design, and the American legal system. She advised lawyers from all over the world on their culminating graduate research projects focused on reform efforts in their home countries.
Prior to joining ONU, she served ten years with the Department of State directing INL’s assistance to the Afghan criminal justice system. She designed and implemented programs dealing with law enforcement and criminal justice training, institutional reform, access to justice, rule of law research, protection of women’s rights, and legal education reform. In recognition of her work, Ms. Hall has earned multiple Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards from the State Department.
Ms. Hall has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in Security Studies with a concentration in international security from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. in Russian Honors from Brigham Young University, where she graduated magna cum laude.