Visiting Professors

Professor Diane Marie Amann (Visiting Professor)

https://dianemarieamann.com/about-diane-marie-amann/

Visiting Professor Diane Marie Amann is Regents’ Professor Emerita and the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law Emerita at the University of Georgia School of Law where she had served as Associate Dean and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. Previously Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at the University of California-Davis School of Law, Amann has held visiting posts at: University College London Faculty of Laws; Faculty of Law Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Exeter College, University of Oxford; Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne); UCLA School of Law; University of California-Berkeley School of Law; Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; USC Shoah Foundation; Max Planck Institute Luxembourg; Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway; and Trinity College Dublin School of Law.

Her scholarship includes works on public international law, constitutional law, laws of war and peace, human and child rights, global legal history, and national/transnational/international criminal justice; most recently, ‘Child-Taking Justice and the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative’, American Journal of International Law (2025), and ‘Absented at the Creation: Nuremberg Women and International Criminal Justice’, in The Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law (OUP, 2025).

A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Amann served as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict. She is a past Counsellor and Vice President of the American Society of International Law, and received ASIL’s Prominent Woman in International Law award.

She holds a Dr hc degree in law from Universiteit Utrecht, a JD cum laude/Order of the Coif from Northwestern University School of Law, an MA in political science from the University of California-Los Angeles, and a BS in journalism, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After serving as a law clerk for US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, she practiced in San Francisco, as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and a litigation associate at Morrison & Foerster.