Dagmar R. Myslinska, JD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Dagmar R. Myslinska, JD, PhD

Associate Professor

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 book publishers, including Bloomsbury Academic and Stanford University Press. 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.

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Associate Professor

Books

  • Myslinska Dagmar Rita, Law, migration, and the construction of whiteness 2024

Articles

  • Public Sector Focus
    Myslinska Dagmar, Dawn of a New Immigration System, p. 54 - 55 2020

Publications

  • International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
    Myslinska Dagmar Rita, Not Quite Right
    34:3, p. 271 - 307 2021
  • Michigan State International Law Review
    Myslinska Dagmar, Retracing the right to free movement
    27:3, p. 383 - 439 2019
  • Tulane Law Review
    Myslinska Dagmar, Contemporary first-generation European Americans
    88:3, p. 559 - 625 2014
  • UMKC Law Review
    Myslinska Dagmar, Racist racism
    83:1, p. 1 - 55 2014
  • Pace Law Review
    Myslinska Dagmar, Intra-group diversity in education
    34:2, p. 736 - 813 2014
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Can I apply for asylum with a criminal record? 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Can I still apply for asylum after the one-year filing deadline? 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Chances of winning a grant of asylum 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, How to apply for a work permit based on asylum 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, How to prepare an affirmative asylum application 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, How to prepare an asylum application in removal proceedings 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Issues faced by detained applicants applying for asylum 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Living conditions in immigration detention center 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Preparing persuasive documents for your asylum application 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Timing of applying for asylum in removal proceedings 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Timing of the affirmative asylum application process 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, What will happen at your master calendar hearing? 2012
  • Myslinska Dagmar, Which U.S. agency will handle your asylum case 2012

Presentations

  • Citizenship and migration 2024
  • Discovery process in civil litigation 2024
  • Early Career Workshop 2022
  • Introduction to immigration law & hostile environment policies 2022
  • The future of immigration 2021
  • COVID-19 and the re-bordering of the world 2021
  • Civil rights and anti-discrimination in the workplace 2017
  • European citizenship, changes & challenges 2016
  • Limiting freedoms 2016
  • Relations between national institutions and supra-national/international institutions 2015
  • Movement 2015
  • Migration writing workshop 2015
  • Higher education access 2014
  • What to expect in a US law school classroom 2014
  • Diversity crisis 2013
  • Race, faith, and nation 2013
  • Class, race, and education 2013