Audiovisual Library of International Law

MS. DIANE MARIE AMANN Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center School of Law, University of Georgia

Diane Marie Amann is the Emily and 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. A dual Irish-US citizen, she has served since 2012 as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict, and helped research and draft the Policy on Children that the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor published in 2016. (She presents this lecture in her personal capacity.)

Amann’s teaching and scholarship (published in English, French, and Italian) examine issues related to collective/national/human security governance, public international law, transnational and international criminal justice, the laws of war and humanitarian law, human and child rights, and domestic and comparative constitutional law.

In furtherance of her ongoing research into the roles that women played at the post-World War II Nuremberg trials, in 2018 Amann was a Research Visitor/Visiting Fellow at Oxford University Faculty of Law’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Mansfield College, at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European & Regulatory Procedural Law, and at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Amann’s previous academic appointments include: Professor of Law and founding Director of the California International Law Center at the University of California-Davis School of Law; Visiting Professor, University of California-Berkeley School of Law, University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at National University Ireland-Galway; and Professeur invitée, Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Her professional affiliations include service as a Counsellor and past Vice President of the American Society of International Law, Chair of the International Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and member of the European Society of International Law.

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