Emilia Justyna Powell

Emilia Justyna Powell

Professor

Fields of Study: International Relations, Constitutional Studies

Research and Teaching Interests: International law, the Islamic legal tradition, international conflict management, territorial disputes

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and by appointment

2018 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

574-631-1460

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Emilia Justyna Powell is a Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. She has written extensively on international law, international courts, international dispute resolution, the Islamic legal tradition, and Islamic constitutionalism. Her prominent publications include a book published in Oxford University Press (2020) entitled Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes, a Cambridge University Press (2011) book, Domestic Law Goes Global: Legal Traditions and International Courts (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell). Her new book, The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes (with Krista E. Wiegand) is forthcoming in Oxford University Press in 2023.

She has been a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Durham University, and at the University of Copenhagen Law School, icourts Centre for International Courts. Born in Toruń, Poland, Emilia Justyna Powell received education in the University of Nicholas Copernicus (Poland), Jean Monnet Center for European Studies, the University of Cambridge, and the Florida State University.

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