Public International Law Hub Seminar - Nuremberg Women: New Histories of the Monster Trial
Speaker
The Public International Law Hub hosts seminars and talks for graduate students and colleagues with an interest in international law. A wide range of topics is encompassed, and all LSE students and staff are welcome to attend.
On Thursday 26 November 2026, Diane Marie Amann will present on the following topic – Nuremberg Women: New Histories of the Monster Trial.
Abstract:
This study takes its subtitle from the reportage of Russia-born French journalist Elsa Triolet. For her the 1945-1946 International Military Tribunal was 'un procès monstre', a trial of monstrous size, at which Allied victors judged monstrosities committed by surviving leaders of the vanquished Nazi regime. This presentation explores the experiences of the hundreds of professional women who contributed to the IMT — journalists like Triolet as well as uniformed servicemembers, stenographers and interpreters, fine artists and evidence analysts, and a handful of lawyers.
Speaker Bio:
Diane Marie Amann is a Visiting Professor at LSE Law School, Departmental Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Oxford, and Regents’ Professor Emerita and Woodruff Chair in International Law Emerita at the University of Georgia School of Law. Amann served as Special Adviser to International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Journal of International Law Board of Editors, and has held leadership posts in the American and European societies of international law. She is writing an Oxford University Press book about lawyers and other women professionals at the first Nuremberg trial.
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