Profile

Full Name

Diane Marie Amann

Position

Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center

Organization

University of Georgia School of Law

URL

https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/diane-marie-amann

Biography

Diane Marie Amann is the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law. She is widely published in international criminal law and related fields, including international humanitarian law, public international law, human rights, constitutional law, legal history, and security governance.

In 2018, she was a Research Visitor at Oxford University Faculty of Law’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Visiting Fellow at Mansfield College, an External Scientific Fellow at Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, and the inaugural Breslauer, Rutman & Anderson Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles. Prior appointments include: Professor of Law and founding Director of the California International Law Center at the University of California-Davis; Professeur invitée at Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne); and Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA, the University of California-Berkeley, and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland-Galway. A Counsellor and past Vice President of the American Society of International Law and recipient of ASIL’s Prominent Woman in International Law Award, Professor Amann also serves on the editorial boards of the International Criminal Law Review, Criminal Law Forum, and Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Her experience includes service as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and practice as a federal criminal defense attorney in San Francisco.

A dual Irish-US citizen, Professor Amann has served since 2012 as the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict, and assisted in the preparation of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor Policy on Children (2016). She contributes to this Forum solely in her personal capacity.

Selected Citations to Published Materials

• Arcs of Global Justice: Essays in Honour of William A. Schabas (Margaret M. deGuzman & Diane Marie Amann, eds., OUP 2018), paywall.
• Diane Marie Amann, The Post-Postcolonial Woman or Child, 30 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 41 (2015), paywall.
• Diane Marie Amann, Children and the First Verdict of the International Criminal Court, 12 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 411 (2013), paywall.
• Diane Marie Amann, Impartiality Deficit and International Criminal Judging, in Atrocities and International Accountability: Beyond Transitional Justice 208 (William A. Schabas, Ramesh Thakur & Edel Hughes, eds., UNU Press 2007), available online, doi.
• Diane Marie Amann, The International Criminal Court and the Sovereign State, in Global Governance and International Legal Theory 185 (Ige F. Dekker & Wouter G. Werner, eds., Martinus Nijhoff 2004), available online, doi.

History

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