Dagmar Rita Myslinska

Dr. Dagmar Myslinska joined Stetson Law as Associate Professor in 2025. She had previously taught at Creighton University School of Law, and at Goldsmiths, University of London. While at Goldsmiths, she founded and directed the Immigration Law & Policy Clinic, served as the law department’s Director of Learning and Teaching, oversaw student affairs, and was a member of the University’s Academic Board. She is an Associate Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy, having obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2021. Earlier in her academic career, Dr. Myslinska had taught at the London School of Economics, Fordham Law School, and School of Criminal Justice at SUNY Albany, and she served as Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, and as a Visiting Professor at Temple University School of Law (Tokyo campus). Dr. Myslinska is currently the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools’s European Law Section.

Before entering academia, Dr. Myslinska practiced transactional law at Debevoise & Plimpton, and complex litigation at Boies Schiller & Flexner, in NYC. In addition, she coordinated law firm pro bono asylum programs, and represented numerous asylum applicants, including detained individuals, from a variety of regions, including Tibet, Myanmar, Russia, Guatemala, Mexico, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Ivory Coast. In her spare time, she has volunteered extensively for animal shelters, and in the immigrant non-profit sector, including for Human Rights First in New York, Latin American Coalition in Charlotte, and as a Trustee for the Migrants’ Rights Network in London. While pursuing her Ph.D. studies, she also served as an elected Trustee of the LSE Student Union.

Dr. Myslinska research expertise falls at the intersection of immigration, equality rights, and race/ethnicity studies. Her qualitative studies of anti-discrimination and immigration laws and discourses rely on critical analytical frameworks (including critical whiteness studies, and postcolonial studies). Her work has engaged with policies in the US, UK, EU, and Japan, and has been published in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (peer-reviewed), Tulane Law Review, Pace Law Review, and UMKC Law Review, among others. Her research on East European migrants to the UK was cited in a briefing for the UK Parliament’s House of Lords, and in a Shadow Report published by the European Network Against Racism. Her monograph, Law, Migration and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility within the European Union (Routledge, 2024) was shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) Hart Book Prize for Early Career Academics 2025. She is currently working on a handbook on comparative international law.

Dr. Myslinska has been interviewed by various domestic and international media outlets, including The Daily Record (Omaha), The Guilty Feminist podcast (London, UK), LBC News (London, UK), IQ (Vilnius, Lithuania), Ta Nea (Athens, Greece), Radio France Online (London, UK), and The Times (London, UK). She has also served as a manuscript referee for several law journals and book publishers, including Stanford University Press, Hart, Bloomsbury Academic, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, University of Bologna Law Review, and McGill Law Journal, and had worked as an Assistant Editor of the LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series.

Dr. Myslinska obtained her Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Professors Nicola Lacey (Law) and Coretta Phillips (Social Policy). She received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University. She clerked for Judge Samuel H. Mays, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.