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Diane Marie Amann

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Diane Marie Amann
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS)
Northwestern University (JD)
Academic work
Disciplinepublic international law, constitutional law, legal history, human rights, children's rights, national security, laws of war, comparative law, criminal law
InstitutionsUniversity of Georgia School of Law, University of Oxford

Diane Marie Amann is Regents' Professor of International Law[1] and holds the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. During the autumn 2024 Michaelmas Term, she is in the United Kingdom, serving as Research Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Bonavero Institute of Human Rights[2] and as a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.[3]

At Georgia Law, she has served since mid-2017 as a Faculty Co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, a position she took up after completing a term as Associate Dean for International Programs & Strategic Initiatives. Additionally, she is Professor (by courtesy) of International Affairs at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Georgia African Studies Institute.[4]

Amann served from 2012 to 2021 as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's Special Adviser on Children in and affected by Armed Conflict;[5] her service included assisting in preparation of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor Policy on Children (2016).[6] Her 2019 lecture entitled "Child Rights, Conflict, and International Criminal Justice" is part of the United Nations Audiovisual Library on International Law.[7]

Education and career

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Amann holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, an M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[8] She served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and practiced as a federal criminal defense attorney in San Francisco before entering academia.[9] Formerly Professor of Law and founding Director of the California International Law Center[10] at the University of California, Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall), she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Counsellor and past Vice President of the American Society of International Law,[11] former co-chair of the European Society of International Law Interest Group on International Criminal Justice, and past Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools.[12] She is a board member of the National Institute of Military Justice.[13]

In addition to her numerous print publications,[14] including in the American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Amann has blogged at EJIL: Talk!,[15] Just Security,[16] The New York Times' Room for Debate,[17] SCOTUSblog,[18] Slate's Convictions,[19] The Blog of Legal Times,[20] and The Huffington Post.[21] She was the founding editor and contributor of IntLawGrrls,[22] a blog that featured contributors from more than 300 judges, academics, students, and practitioners, from 2007 to 2012; subsequently, she launched a solo blog, Diane Marie Amann.[23]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Two UGA faculty members named Regents' Professors". 8 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Diane Marie Amann". Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
  3. ^ "Professor Diane Marie Amann". Exeter College, Oxford.
  4. ^ "Amann named associate dean for international programs and strategic initiatives at Georgia Law | WWW.law.uga.edu".
  5. ^ "ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda appoints Patricia Sellers, Leila Sadat and Diane Marie Amann as Special Advisers". Archived from the original on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  6. ^ "Policy on Children".
  7. ^ "Lecture Series - Ms. Diane Marie Amann".
  8. ^ "Diane Marie Amann | WWW.law.uga.edu".
  9. ^ "Diane Marie Amann | WWW.law.uga.edu".
  10. ^ California International Law Center
  11. ^ "The American Society of International Law Leadership". Archived from the original on 2009-12-18. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  12. ^ "Diane Marie Amann | WWW.law.uga.edu".
  13. ^ "American University Washington College of Law". www.wcl.american.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-09-09.
  14. ^ "Publications". 12 December 2011.
  15. ^ "In Bemba and Beyond, Crimes Adjudged to Commit Themselves".
  16. ^ "Diane Marie Amann, Author at Just Security".
  17. ^ "Guantanamo Bay - Room for Debate Blog - the New York Times". 9 March 2010.
  18. ^ "Diane Marie Amann, Author at SCOTUSblog".
  19. ^ "Slate Blogs". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
  20. ^ "Justicestevens".
  21. ^ "HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. And World News". HuffPost.
  22. ^ "IntLawGrrls".
  23. ^ "Diane Marie Amann".
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