Evan Criddle is the Ernest W. Goodrich Professor. His research interests focus on public international law, international legal theory, refugee and asylum law, human rights, administrative law, and fiduciary law. He is the author or editor of four books: Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (Oxford U. Press) (with Evan Fox-Decent), Human Rights in Emergencies (Cambridge U. Press), Fiduciary Governance (Cambridge U. Press), and the Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Oxford U. Press) (with Robert H. Sitkoff & Paul B. Miller). His scholarship has appeared in dozens of journals and edited collections, including the American Journal of International Law, Cornell Law Review, European Journal of International Law, Georgetown Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, Legal Theory, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Yale Journal of International Law. His research has received generous support from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and has been cited by the supreme courts of Canada and the United States.

Professor Criddle received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Essays Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then spent several years at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York representing foreign sovereigns, multinational corporations, and political refugees. Prior to joining William & Mary, Professor Criddle taught at the Syracuse University College of Law.