Dr. Kristina Daugirdas

Biography

Kristina B. Daugirdas is the Francis Allen Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Her scholarly work primarily focuses on international law and institutions, especially international organizations and accountability mechanisms. Daugirdas has had a distinguished career in academia and has significantly contributed to the evolution of the international legal system. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Organizations Law Review and serves as an adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law. In her prior role as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. State Department's Office of Legal Adviser, she provided counsel on public international law issues and played key roles in negotiations and the implementation of UN Security Council sanctions. Daugirdas is recognized for her involvement in legal scholarship, including co-authoring the Contemporary Practice of the United States International Law between 2014 and 2017, for which she received the Francis Deák Prize for outstanding contributions by a younger author. She is actively engaged in various international law forums and has presented her research at numerous conferences.

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