Erin Corcoran serves as the Executive Director for the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies and as a faculty member at the Keough School of Global Affairs. Ms. Corcoran oversees operations and staff administration at the Kroc Institute. She also gives leadership to the Institute’s five-year strategic plan.

Ms. Corcoran’s work has focused on immigration and refugee law, human rights law and other complex legal topics at the national and local level. Prior to joining the Kroc Institute, Ms. Corcoran provided counsel to Kids in Need of Defense and the Vera Institute of Justice. As a Professor of Law at University of New Hampshire School of Law her research centered on protecting vulnerable non-citizens including developing best practices for adjudicating claims of unaccompanied children seeking international protection.

Ms. Corcoran’s administrative experience includes a one-year term as the inaugural Executive Director for the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy and four years as the Director of the Social Justice Institute, both at the University of New Hampshire. She also served two years as a professional staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science Related Agencies.

Ms. Corcoran holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., and has a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Montana State University in Bozeman.