Emilia Justyna Powell

Biography

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, territorial and maritime disputes, 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 award winning book, The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes (with Krista E. Wiegand) was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Currently, Professor Powell is working on several research projects devoted to international law, the global order, the Islamic legal tradition, and constitutional studies: a book project, The Global Order in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (with Jarek Nabrzyski, an edited volume), a unified theory of forum shopping (with Richard Clark), and alternative sources of legal authority in the world constitutions (with Christina Bambrick).

Professor Powell 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.