Evan J. Criddle

William & Mary Law School

Professor of Law

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P.O. Box 8795

Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

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1.

The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in U.S. Treaty Interpretation

Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2004
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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treaties, interpretation, Vienna Convention

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A Fiduciary Theory of Jus Cogens

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 34, 2009
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 06 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2015
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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jus cogens, peremptory norms, human rights, international law, sovereignty, fiduciary, authority, legitimacy

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Human Rights, Emergencies, and the Rule of Law

Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 34, p. 39 (2012)
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2017
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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emergencies, state of emergency, state of exception, rule of law, human rights, international law

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Three Grotian Theories of Humanitarian Intervention

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 16(2), p. 473 (2015), William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-314
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Jul 2015
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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humanitarian intervention, human rights, responsibility to protect, fiduciary, guardian, trustee, Security Council, Grotius

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The Fiduciary Constitution of Human Rights

Legal Theory, Vol. 15(4), p. 301 (2010)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2017
Evan Fox-Decent and Evan J. Criddle
McGill University - Faculty of Law and William & Mary Law School
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human rights, sovereignty, Kant, fiduciary

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Deriving Peremptory Norms from Sovereignty

American Society of International Law Proceedings, Vol. 103, 2009
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 05 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2015
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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jus cogens, peremptory norms, fiduciary, rule of law, international law, human rights

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Fiduciary Foundations of Administrative Law

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 1, p. 117, 2006
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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administrative law, fiduciary

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Proportionality in Counterinsurgency: A Relational Theory

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 87, 2012
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 May 2011 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2011
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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international human rights law, human rights, international humanitarian law, counterinsurgency, proportionality, non-international armed conflict, sovereignty, lex specialis

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A Sacred Trust of Civilization: Fiduciary Foundations of International Law

Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law, Andrew Gold & Paul Miller eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-263
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Oct 2013
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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international law, responsibility to protect, sovereignty, fiduciary, Vitoria, guardian, mandate, trustee, trusteeship, colonialism, Security Council

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Fiduciary Administration: Rethinking Popular Representation in Agency Rulemaking

Texas Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 3, p. 441, 2010
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 02 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2010
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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administrative law, agencies, rulemaking, regulation, fiduciary, deliberation, deliberative democracy, representation, popular representation, sovereignty, popular sovereignty

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When Delegation Begets Domination: Due Process of Administrative Lawmaking

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 46, p. 117, 2011
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 18 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2011
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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nondelegation doctrine, delegation, republicanism, due process, administrative law, administrative procedure, rulemaking, separation of powers

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Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (Chapters 1 & 7)

Evan J. Criddle & Evan Fox-Decent, Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) (Chapters 1 & 7)
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 24 Oct 2016
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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international law, human rights, state recognition, jus cogens, laws of war, international humanitarian law, global constitutionalism, war on terror, national security law, international refugee law, international institutions, fiduciary, rule of law

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Interest Balancing vs. Fiduciary Duty: Two Models for National Security Law

Evan Fox-Decent & Evan J Criddle, "Interest Balancing vs Fiduciary Duty: Two Models for National Security Law" (2012) 13:5 German Law Journal 542.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 May 2011 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2015
Evan Fox-Decent and Evan J. Criddle
McGill University - Faculty of Law and William & Mary Law School
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national security, emergencies, emergency powers, torture, human rights, fiduciary

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Mandatory Multilateralism

113 American Journal of International Law (2019 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 Feb 2019
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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multilateralism, international law, UNCLOS, human rights, R2P, responsibility to protect, common resources, climate change, Paris Agreement, ICJ, WTO, sovereign equality, joint stewardship

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Introduction: The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller & Robert H. Sitkoff eds., OUP 2019)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Aug 2019
Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller and Robert H. Sitkoff
William & Mary Law School, Notre Dame Law School and Harvard University - Harvard Law School
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fiduciary, trust law, corporate law, agency law, loyalty, care, comparative law, legal theory, legal history, common law, equity

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Liberty in Loyalty: A Republican Theory of Fiduciary Law

Texas Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 5, p. 993, 2017
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 15 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2017
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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fiduciary, fiduciary duties, loyalty, republicanism, liberalism, domination, arbitrariness, remedies, rescission, constructive trust, disgorgement, agency, trust, guardianship, investment advice, corruption

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Mending Holes in the Rule of (Administrative) Law

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 3, 1271
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2011
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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administrative law, emergencies, rule of law, Schmitt, justification

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Fiduciary Law's Mixed Messages

Research Handbook on Fiduciary Law (Andrew S. Gold & D. Gordon Smith eds., Edward Elgar Publ., Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Mar 2017
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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fiduciary, fiduciary duty, loyalty, care, republicanism, domination, acoustic separation, conduct rule, decision rule, mixed messages, standards of review

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Fiduciary Government: Provenance, Promise, and Pitfalls

Fiduciary Government (Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent, Andrew S. Gold, Sung Hui Kim & Paul B. Miller eds., Cambridge University Press 2018)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Dec 2018
Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent, Andrew S. Gold, Sung Hui Kim and Paul B. Miller
William & Mary Law School, McGill University - Faculty of Law, Brooklyn Law School, UCLA School of Law and Notre Dame Law School
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fiduciaries, government, public officials, , purepresentation, legitimacy, corruptionblic trust, positive rights

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Against Methodological Stare Decisis

102 Georgetown Law Journal 1573 (2014) , William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-266
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014
Evan J. Criddle and Glen Staszewski
William & Mary Law School and Michigan State University College of Law
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statutory interpretation, stare decisis, faithful agency, canons, methodological stare decisis, legislation, federal courts, Congress

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The Constitution of Agency Statutory Interpretation

Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, Vol. 69, p. 325 (2016)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Dec 2016
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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Statutory Interpretation, Statutory Construction, Administrative Law, Legislation, Chevron Deference

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Chevron's Consensus

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 88, 2008
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2008
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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Chevron, administrative law, legislation, statutory interpretation, pluralism

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Customary Constraints on the Use of Force: Article 51 with an American Accent

29 Leiden Journal of International Law, 2016, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Oct 2015
Evan J. Criddle and William Banks
William & Mary Law School and Syracuse University College of Law - Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs
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use of force, self-defense, self-defence, restrictivism, UN Charter, Article 51, proportionality, necessity, cyber attacks

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Standing for Human Rights Abroad

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 2 (2015)
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 22 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2015
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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international law, human rights, Grotius, sanctions, countermeasures, fiduciary, humanitarian intervention, self-determination, guardianship

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The Authority of International Refugee Law

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 62 (2021 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Nov 2020
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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refugees, international refugee law, non-refoulement, persecution, COVID-19, jus cogens, peremptory norm, emergencies, rule of law, fiduciary

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Humanitarian Financial Intervention

European Journal of International Law, 2013
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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international law, humanitarian intervention, asset freezes, sanctions, human rights, countermeasures, security council, armed conflict, Libya, Qaddafi, Libyan revolution, Arab spring

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Guardians of Legal Order: The Dual Commissions of Public Fiduciaries

Evan J. Criddle & Evan Fox-Decent, Guardians of Legal Order: The Dual Commissions of Public Fiduciaries, in FIDUCIARY GOVERNMENT (Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent, Paul B. Miller, Andrew Gold, Sung Hui Kim eds., Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Sep 2017
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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fiduciary law, public fiduciary theory, international law, public law, legal ethics, medical ethics, fiduciaries of humanity

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The Case Against Prosecuting Refugees

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 115, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 31 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2020
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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Refugee, Immigration, Criminal Law, Prosecution, Illegal Entry, Charming Betsy, Constitutional Avoidance, Lenity, Justification, Excuse

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Chevron Deference and Treaty Interpretation

112 Yale L.J. 1927 (2003)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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treaties, interpretation, chevron, deference

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Keeping the Promise of Public Fiduciary Theory: A Reply to Leib and Galoob

Yale Law Journal Forum, Vol. 126, p. 192 (2016)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Oct 2016
Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law School and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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fiduciary, fiduciary theory, fiduciary norms, international law, human rights, torture, administrative law, loyalty

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Fiduciary Principles in International Law

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan J. Criddle, Paul B. Miller & Robert H. Sitkoff eds., Oxford University Press 2019)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Sep 2019
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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fiduciary, international law, loyalty, agent, trustee, colonialism, international territorial administration, occupation, states, diplomats

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Stakeholder Fiduciaries

Fiduciaries and Trust: Ethics, Politics, Economics, and Law (Matthew Harding & Paul B. Miller eds., Cambridge U.P. 2020)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Nov 2020
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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fiduciary, stakeholder, duty of loyalty, duty of care, partner, partnership, joint venture, corporate law, trust law, spouses, public officials

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Legal Order at the Border

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 56, forthcoming 2023
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Nov 2022
Evan J. Criddle
William & Mary Law School
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immigration, asylum, rule of law, Lon Fuller

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The Internal Morality of International Law

Fox-Decent, Evan and Criddle, Evan J., "The Internal Morality of International Law" (2018) 63:3&4 McGill Law Journal 765
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 26 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2020
Evan Fox-Decent and Evan J. Criddle
McGill University - Faculty of Law and William & Mary Law School
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Public Fiduciary Law, International Law, Legal Theory, Jurisprudence, Lon Fuller