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Emilia Justyna Powell Curriculum Vitae, August 2014 Department of Political Science University of Notre Dame, 217 O’Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46656 e-mail: [email protected]; phone: 574-631-1460 EDUCATION 1996 II Liceum Ogólnoksztalcące im Jana III Sobieskiego, Grudziądz, Poland (highschool) 1999 Diploma in an Introduction to the English Law and the Law of the European Union, University of Cambridge, UK 2000 Certificate of the Intensive Course on European Law, Jean Monnet Center for European Studies, Torun, Poland 2001 Masters Degree, Law, University of Nicholas Copernicus, Torun, Poland Thesis: The Role of Public Notary Administration in the European Union 2001 Diploma from Jean Monnet Center for European Studies, Torun, Poland Thesis: The European Court of Justice 2003 M.A., Political Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 2006 Ph.D. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; Dissertation Title: Conflict, Cooperation, and Legal Systems of the World, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Chair PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 07/11 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame 08/09 - 05/11 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alabama 08/06 - 07/09 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia Southern University PUBLICATIONS Book 2011 Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Emilia Justyna Powell. Domestic Law Goes Global: Legal Traditions and International Courts. Cambridge University Press. Peer-Reviewed Research Articles 2015 Emilia Justyna Powell. “Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes.” Forthcoming in International Organization. 2014 Emilia Justyna Powell and Krista E. Wiegand. “Strategic Selection: Political and Legal Mechanisms of Territorial Dispute Resolution.” Journal of Peace Research 51(3): 361-374. 2013 Emilia Justyna Powell. “Islamic Law States and the International Court of Justice.” Journal of Peace Research 50(2): 203-217. 2013 Emilia Justyna Powell. “Two Courts – Two Roads? Domestic Rule of Law and Legitimacy of International Courts.” Foreign Policy Analysis 9(4): 349-368. 2011 Krista E. Wiegand and Emilia Justyna Powell. “Unexpected Companions: Bilateral Cooperation Between States Involved in Territorial Disputes.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 28(3): 1-21. 2011 Krista E. Wiegand and Emilia Justyna Powell. “Past Experience, Quest for the Best Forum, and Peaceful Attempts to Resolve Territorial Disputes.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 55(1): 33-59. 2010 Emilia Justyna Powell and Stephanie Rickard. “International Trade and Domestic Legal Systems: Examining the Impact of Islamic law on Bilateral Trade Flows.” International Interactions 36(4): 335-362. 2010 Emilia Justyna Powell and Krista E. Wiegand. “Legal Systems and Peaceful Attempts to Resolve Territorial Disputes.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 27(2): 129-151. 2010 Emilia Justyna Powell. “Negotiating Military Alliances – Legal Systems and Alliance Formation.” International Interactions 36(1): 28-59. 2009 Emilia Justyna Powell and Jeffrey K. Staton. “Domestic Institutions and Human Rights Treaty Violations.” International Studies Quarterly 53(1): 149-174. 2009 Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Emilia Justyna Powell. “Legal Systems and Variance in the Design of Commitments to the International Court of Justice.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 26(2): 164-190. 2007 Emilia Justyna Powell and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. “The International Court of Justice and the World’s Three Legal Systems.” Journal of Politics 69(2): 397-415. 2007 Emilia Justyna Powell. “Fighting Corruption – the United States’ Perspective.” Prokuratura i Prawo (1): 27-35. (Public Prosecution and Law), Poland. Book Reviews Schiff, Benjamin N. 2008. Building the International Criminal Court. Journal of Politics. 2009. 71(1): 361-362. PAPERS WITH REVISE AND RESUMBIT STATUS Islamic Law States and the Authority of the International Court of Justice: Territorial Sovereignty and Diplomatic Immunity: this paper is in consideration for a special issue of Law and Contemporary Problems (Karen Alter, Larry Helfer, and Mikael Rask Madsen, issue editors). The Role of the Domestic Opposition and International Justice Regimes in Peaceful Transitions of Power (co-authored with Monika Nalepa): this paper received a revise and resubmit decision (second round) from Journal of Conflict Resolution. Forum Shopping for the Best Adjudicator: Conflict Management and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) (co-authored with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell): this paper received a revise and resubmit decision from Journal of Conflict Resolution. WORK IN PROGRESS Book Project: Islamic Law States and International Law: Peaceful Settlement of Disputes. Paper: Islamic Law and International Law (co-authored with Catherine Sims, Ph. D student at Notre Dame) GRANTS AND SPONSORED PROGRAMS Islamic Law and International Courts. ICOURTS: Centre of Excellence for International Courts University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Principal Investigator. 04/2014. $4,000. Islamic Law and International Law. Institute of Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Faculty Research and Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame. Principal Investigator. 04/2014. $2,390. Qatar’s International Peaceful Resolution of Disputes. The Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame Faculty and Faculty Fellow Research Grant. Principal Investigator. 05/2014 $5,000. Faculty Travel and Research Grant, the Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame, Poland’s Laws and International Courts, Principal Investigator. 10/2013. $2,000. Interim Travel to International Conferences Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame. 09/2013. $1,670.00. Poland’s Domestic Laws and International Courts. Faculty Research Grant, the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. Principal Investigator. 03/2013. $3,868. Interim Travel to International Conferences Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame.01/2013. $1,755.00. Islamic Law States, International Law and Courts. Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, Large Research Grant. 03/2012. Principal Investigator. $10,000. Islamic Law and States’ Foreign Policy Behavior. Faculty Research Scholarship Program (FRSP) Initiation Grant. Principal Investigator. 01/2012. $9,977. Poland’s Views of International Law and Courts. Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, Research and Creative Work Small Grant. 12/2011. Principal Investigator. $2,500. Poland’s Views of International Law and Courts. Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame, Faculty Travel and Research Grant. 12/2011. Principal Investigator. $2,000. Islamic Law and States’ Foreign Policy Behavior. University of Alabama Research Grants Committee (RCG) Grant. 05/2010. Principal Investigator. RECENT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS 2014 “Islamic Law States and the Authority of the International Court of Justice: Territorial Sovereignty and Diplomatic Immunity,” to be presented at the Conference on International Courts in their Social and Political Contexts, iCourts – Center of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen and Duke University Law School, Durham, North Carolina, May 26-27, 2014. “Islamic Law States and Peaceful Settlement of Territorial Disputes: Relationship between International and Islamic Law in the Context of International Mediation and Adjudication.” Presented at the Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations and International Law, The Center on Law and Globalization (American Bar Foundation and Illinois College of Law, May 16-17, 2014. “Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes,” presented at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, January 21, 2014. 2013 Islamic law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes, presented at the Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Il, October 7, 2013. The International Court of Justice. Conference on International Courts in their Social and Political Contexts, iCourts – Center of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 20-21, 2013. To Stay or to Go: Peaceful Surrender of Control After the International Criminal Court. Presented with Monika Nalepa (co-author) at the Center for Civil and Human Rights Roundtable Series, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame, February 4th, 2013. Islamic Law States and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes. Presented at the Loyola University, Chicago, March 25, 2013. Islamic Law States and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Presented at the Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations and International Law, The Center on Law and Globalization (American Bar Foundation and Illinois College of Law, May 16-17, 2014. 2012 Women in Academia, Roundtable on Women’s Professional Development Issues in Academia, International Studies Association-Midwest Annual Conference, November 1-4, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri. Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes and Islamic Law States, presented at the KROC Institute, Peace and Conflict workshop, University of Notre Dame, February 29, 2012. Poland and the European Union, presented at the Nanovic Institute Roundtable “Where is ‘Europe’ Going in the Wake of the Debt Crisis?” University of Notre Dame, February 29, 2012. Strategic Selection:
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