Kristina Daugirdas is a professor of law and the associate dean for academic programming at the University of Michigan Law School. She teaches and writes in the fields of international law and institutions and US foreign relations law.

Her scholarship currently focuses on how international law regulates (and fails to regulate) international institutions, as well as how they contribute to the development of international law. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Organizations Law Review and the US State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law.

In 2016–2017, Daugirdas was a Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and served as a consultant on public international law issues for the World Intellectual Property Organization. From 2014 to 2017, she co-authored the Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law: A section of the American Journal of International Law. In 2014, she was awarded the Francis Deák Prize for an outstanding article published in the American Journal of International Law by a younger author.

Before joining the Michigan Law faculty, Daugirdas was an attorney-adviser at the US Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser.  In that role, she provided guidance on the negotiation and implementation of UN Security Council sanctions and amicus participation by the U.S government in lawsuits with foreign policy implications. 

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Education

  • Brown University, BA, with honors
  • New York University, JD, magna cum laude

Recent Courses

Clerkships

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Hon. Stephen F. Williams

Featured Scholarship

"Back to Basics: The Benefits of Paradigmatic International Organizations"

Harvard National Security Journal
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"Funding Global Governance"

NYU Environmental Law Journal
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  • International and Comparative Law

"The Restatements and the Rule of Law"

The Restatement and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Foreign Relations Law
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  • International and Comparative Law

"Member States' Due Diligence Obligations to Supervise International Organizations"

Due Diligence in the International Legal Order
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  • International and Comparative Law
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Activities

December 2019

Co-organized and moderated the annual American Society of International Law's International Law in Domestic Courts Workshop, Lewis & Clark Law School

August 2019

Contributed a lecture, "How and Why International Law Binds International Organizations," to the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

January 2019

Presented "Extending the Shelf Life of the Fourth Restatement of Foreign Relations Law" at the Sokol Colloquium: The Restatement and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville

December 2018

Co-organized and moderated the annual American Society of International Law's International Law in Domestic Courts workshop, University of Pennsylvania Law School

September 2018

Presented "Was JASTA a One-Off?" at the Yale-Duke Foreign Relations Law Roundtable, New Haven, Connecticut

September 2018

Presented "The Role of Alternative Accountability Mechanisms: Is the Immunity of International Organizations Limited?" at the 2018 Legal Conference of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Beijing

June 2018

Joined the board of editors of the International Organizations Law Review

June 2018

Presented a book chapter at the Due Diligence in International Law conference, Max Planck Institute, Berlin

April 2018

Moderated a panel discussion on the role of the U.S. Congress in shaping foreign policy at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law