Izabela Krasnicka

Adjunct Professor krasnicka@uwb.edu.pl Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Izabela Kraśnicka joins the College of Law to teach a 2025 summer course “Transnational Lawyering in the European Union: A Comparative Study of EU and US Legal Practices and Perspectives”.

Kraśnicka is a University Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland. She was an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, taught in two ABA-accredited summer programs with the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and with Michigan State University College of Law. She was a Visiting Professor at the Lancaster University (UK) and Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania).

Her primary research is focused on international public law (with special emphasis on the law of the air and law of international organizations), U.S. Constitutional law, and constitutional European Union law, as well as the practical approach to legal education. 

Kraśnicka has published over 80 scholarly articles, in Polish and English. Her most recent works include a book chapter “Has Belarus Violated International Law?” (Routledge 2024), the article “Gender Equity in Deanship of the Central and Eastern European Law Schools” in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 2024, and the book “Legal System of the United States. An introduction (Temida 2, 2023)”. She has also co-authored the article “Polish Response to the War in Ukraine: The Protection of Refugees” for the 2023 special issue of the Syracuse Law Review.    

She received her master’s degree, doctoral degree and post-doctoral degree in law from the University of Bialystok Faculty of Law. She was a recipient of the Boeing Corporation Scholarship and the Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship.

Kraśnicka in on the board of the European Law Faculties Association, Global Alliance for Justice Education, and the Polish Legal Clinics Foundation.