Professor Evan Criddle Examines How Self-Determination Limits Extraterritorial Lawmaking in International Webinar
On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, Professor Evan Criddle of William & Mary Law School was the featured speaker for an international webinar supported by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and hosted by faculty at North South University, Bangladesh’s leading law school.
During the webinar, Criddle, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at William & Mary Law, discussed his article, "Extraterritorial Empire: How Self-determination Limits Extraterritorial Lawmaking," which appeared recently in the American Journal of International Law. Learn more.
The session was moderated by Professor Md Rizwanul Islam, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor at the Department of Law, NSU, moderated the webinar. Dr Ishtiaque Ahmed, Chairman of the Department of Law, NSU, made introductory remarks.
Watch the webinar below.
Professor Criddle was appointed Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at William & Mary Law School, effective July 1, 2023. Criddle has been a member of the Law School faculty since 2013, where he is Ernest W. Goodrich Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Law and Policy.
Criddle teaches and writes across several fields, including public international law, international human rights, fiduciary law, administrative law, immigration law, and civil procedure. He is the author or editor of five books: Mandatory Cooperation Under International Law (Cambridge U. Press, 2024) (with Evan Fox-Decent), The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Oxford U. Press) (with Robert H. Sitkoff & Paul B. Miller), Fiduciary Government (Cambridge U. Press) (with Evan Fox-Decent, Andrew S. Gold, Sung Hui Kim & Paul B. Miller), Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (Oxford U. Press) (with Evan Fox-Decent), and Human Rights in Emergencies (Cambridge U. Press).
His scholarship has appeared in dozens of journals and edited collections, including the American Journal of International Law, Cornell Law Review, European Journal of International Law, Georgetown Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, Legal Theory, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Yale Journal of International Law. His research has received generous support from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and has been cited by the supreme courts of Canada and the United States.
His expert commentary has appeared in BBC Newshour, the Boston Globe, Euronews, and Politico.