Karen Hall is the executive director for the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina, where she has championed an ethos of innovative reform work and training methodology. 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 audience participation teaching methods have made her a sought-after trainer on rule of law, comparative law, criminal law, and anti-corruption. She has led programs focused on Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Malawi, Zambia, and Oceania.

Previously, Ms. Hall was an associate professor and director at the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, where she taught courses on rule of law, anti-corruption, comparative law, program design, and the American legal system. She also served 10 years with the Department of State directing assistance to the Afghan civilian criminal justice system. She designed and implemented programs dealing with law enforcement and criminal justice training, institutional reform, victim assistance, gender justice, rule of law research, and legal education reform.

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 BYU, where she graduated magna cum laude.