Dr. Dagmar Myslinska joined Creighton Law School as Associate Professor in 2023. She had previously taught Contracts, and Immigration Law for four years at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she founded and directed the Immigration Law & Policy Clinic. At Goldsmiths, she also served as the law department’s Director of Learning and Teaching, oversaw student affairs, and was a member of the University’s Academic Board. Prof. Myslinska is an Associate Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy, having obtained Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education in 2021. Prior to joining Goldsmiths, she taught at various law schools in the US and abroad, including at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School, and Temple University School of Law (Tokyo campus).
 
Earlier in her career, after being admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars, Prof. Myslinska practiced transactional law at Debevoise & Plimpton and complex litigation at Boies Schiller & Flexner in NYC. She clerked for Judge Mays of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. 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.
 
Prof. Myslinska’s 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 race theory, 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 has also been disseminated via various media outlets, and she has served as a manuscript referee for several law journals, including McGill Law Journal, and for textbook publishers, including Bloomsbury Academic. She is currently serving as Secretary for the Section on European Law of the Association of American Law Schools. Her research monograph, “Law, Migration and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility within the European Union” (Routledge, 2024) interrogates the history, wording, omissions, assumptions and applications of laws, policies and discourses pertinent to mobility and equality, to argue that the parameters of Central and Eastern European nationals’ status within the EU have been closely circumscribed, in line with the entrenched historical positioning of the west as superior to the east. Engaging current legal, economic, political, and moral issues—against the backdrop of Brexit and contestations over EU integration and globalization—the book opens avenues of thought to better understand law’s role in producing and sustaining social stratifications. Europe is a postcolonial space, as this book demonstrates. By addressing fractures within the construct of whiteness that are based on ethnicity, class and migrant status, the book also provides a theoretically nuanced, and politically useful, understanding of contemporary European racisms.
 
Prof. 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.