Michele Krech

Areas of Expertise

• Law and Global Governance
• Transnational Legal Theory
• International Human Rights Law
• Law and Gender
• Law and Science

Michele Krech is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Her research spans transnational law and global governance, with a particular focus on the intersection of private regulation and human rights. Drawing on socio-legal methods and critical legal theory, she examines how the interactions between domestic and international legal systems and public and private regulatory authorities facilitate or foreclose access to justice. Professor Krech is particularly interested in the accountability of transnational organizations and the role of science and other knowledge systems in legal decision-making.

Professor Krech has explored these questions in contexts including the regulation of sex and gender in global sport. She has worked in a consultative capacity with various international organizations, including the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Centre for Sport and Human Rights. She has also collaborated with Yale Law School’s Global Health and Justice Partnership and the World Medical Association.

Prior to joining the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Professor Krech was Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School; a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), where she served as an Assistant Editor of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL); and a doctoral researcher affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) at NYU School of Law. She also clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and at the International Court of Justice.