Evan J. Criddle

Evan J. Criddle

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Ernest W. Goodrich Professor of Law, and Director, Center for International Law and Policy
Degrees: J.D., Yale Law School; B.A., Brigham Young University
Email: [[ejcriddle]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3808
Office location: Room 204
Full resume: here (.pdf in new window)
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements

Evan Criddle is the Ernest W. Goodrich Professor. His research interests focus on public international law, international legal theory, refugee and asylum law, human rights, administrative law, and fiduciary law. He is the author or editor of four books: Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (Oxford U. Press) (with Evan Fox-Decent), Human Rights in Emergencies (Cambridge U. Press), Fiduciary Governance (Cambridge U. Press), and the Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Oxford U. Press) (with Robert H. Sitkoff & Paul B. Miller). 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.

Professor Criddle received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Essays Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then spent several years at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York representing foreign sovereigns, multinational corporations, and political refugees. Prior to joining William & Mary, Professor Criddle taught at the Syracuse University College of Law.


Scholarly Publications
Books
  • Mandatory Cooperation Under International Law (Cambridge U. Press, forthcoming 2025) (with Evan Fox-Decent).
  • The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle et al. eds., Oxford U. Press 2019). Online.
  • Fiduciary Government (Evan J. Criddle et al. eds., Cambridge U. Press 2018). Online.
  • Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (Oxford U. Press 2016) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • Human Rights in Emergencies (Cambridge U. Press 2016) (editor). Online.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • Extraterritorial Lawmaking and Self-Determination, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Extra-Territoriality and The Law (Danielle Ireland-Piper, Austen Parrish & Cedric Ryngaert eds., Edward Elgar Press (forthcoming 2025).
  • Extraterritoriality’s Empire: How Self-Determination Limits Extraterritorial Lawmaking, 118 Am. J. Int'l L. 607 (2024). SSRN.
  • Legal Order at the Border, 56 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1503 (2023). SSRN.
  • Turning Sanctions into Reparations: Lessons for Russia/Ukraine, 64 Harv. Int'l. L.J. Online (2023). Online.
  • The Authority of International Refugee Law, 62 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1067 (2021) (with Evan Fox-Decent) (symposium). SSRN.
  • Stakeholder Fiduciaries, in Fiduciaries and Trust: Ethics, Politics, Economics, and Law (Matthew Harding & Paul B. Miller eds., Cambridge U. Press 2020). SSRN.
  • The Case Against Prosecuting Refugees, 115 Nw. U. L. Rev. 717 (2020). SSRN.
  • Mandatory Multilateralism, 113 Am. J. Int'l L. 272 (2019) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • The Internal Morality of International Law, 63 McGill L.J. 765 (2018) (with Evan Fox-Decent) (symposium). SSRN.
  • Fiduciary Principles in International Law, in The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller, Robert H. Sitkoff eds., Oxford U. Press 2019). SSRN.
  • Introduction, in The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller & Robert H. Sitkoff eds., Oxford U. Press 2019) (co-authored with co-editors). SSRN.
  • Introduction: Fiduciary Government: Promise, Provenance, and Pitfalls, in Fiduciary Government (Evan J. Criddle et al. eds., Cambridge U. Press 2018) (co-authored with co-editors). SSRN.
  • Guardians of Legal Order: The Dual Commissions of Public Fiduciaries, in Fiduciary Government (Evan J. Criddle et al. eds., Cambridge U. Press 2018) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • Fiduciary Law's Mixed Messages, in Research Handbook on Fiduciary Law (Gold & Smith eds. 2017). SSRN.
  • Liberty in Loyalty: A Republican Theory of Fiduciary Law, 95 Tex. L. Rev. 993 (2017). SSRN.
  • Customary Constraints on the Use of Force: Article 51 with an American Accent, 29 Leiden J. Int'l L. 67 (2016) (with William Banks). SSRN.
  • Introduction: Testing Human Rights Theory During Emergencies, in Human Rights in Emergencies (Evan J. Criddle ed., Cambridge U. Press 2016).
  • Keeping the Promise of Public Fiduciary Theory: A Reply to Leib and Galoob, 126 192 (2016) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • The Constitution of Agency Statutory Interpretation, 69 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 325 (2016) (solicited). SSRN.
  • Protecting Human Rights During Emergencies: Delegation, Derogation, and Deference, 45 Neth. Y.B. Int'l L. 197 (2015).
  • Standing for Human Rights Abroad, 100 Cornell L. Rev. 269 (2015). SSRN.
  • Three Grotian Theories of Humanitarian Intervention, 16 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 473 (2015). SSRN.
  • A Sacred Trust of Civilization: Fiduciary Foundations of International Law, in Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law (Andrew Gold & Paul Miller eds., Oxford U. Press 2014). SSRN.
  • Against Methodological Stare Decisis, 102 Geo. L.J. 1573 (2014) (with Glen Staszewski) (essay). SSRN.
  • Humanitarian Financial Intervention, 24 Eur. J. Int'l L. 583 (2013). SSRN.
  • Proportionality in Counterinsurgency: Reconciling Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, in Counterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare (William C. Banks ed., Oxford U. Press 2013).
  • Human Rights, Emergencies, and the Rule of Law, 34 Human Rts. Q. 39 (2012) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • Interest Balancing vs. Fiduciary Duty: Two Models for National Security Law, 13 German L.J. 542 (2012) (with Evan Fox-Decent) (solicited). SSRN.
  • Proportionality in Counterinsurgency: A Relational Theory, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1073 (2012). SSRN.
  • When Delegation Begets Domination: Due Process of Administrative Lawmaking, 46 Ga. L. Rev. 117 (2011). SSRN.
  • Fiduciary Administration: Rethinking Popular Representation in Agency Rulemaking, 88 Tex. L. Rev. 441 (2010). SSRN.
  • Mending Holes in the Rule of (Administrative) Law, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1271 (2010) (essay). SSRN.
  • A Fiduciary Theory of Jus Cogens, 34 Yale J. Int'l L. 331 (2009) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • Deriving Peremptory Norms from Sovereignty, 103 ASIL Proc. 71 (2009) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • The Fiduciary Constitution of Human Rights, 15 Legal Theory 301 (2009) (with Evan Fox-Decent). SSRN.
  • Chevron's Consensus, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 1271 (2008). SSRN.
  • Fiduciary Foundations of Administrative Law, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 117 (2006). SSRN.
  • The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in U.S. Treaty Interpretation, 44 Va. J. Int'l L. 431 (2004). SSRN.
  • Chevron Deference and Treaty Interpretation, 112 Yale L.J. 1927 (2003) (comment). SSRN.
  • 26 Yale J. Int'l L. 272 (2001) (reviewing Susan Marks, The Riddle of All Constitutions: International Law, Democracy, and the Critique of Ideology) (book review).

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