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Diane Marie Amann
OccupationLaw Professor
Academic background
EducationNorthwestern University (JD)
University of California, Los Angeles (Master of Arts in political science)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS in journalism)
Utrecht University (Dr h.c. in law)
Academic work
Disciplinepublic international law, constitutional law, legal history, human rights, children's rights, national security, laws of war, comparative law, criminal law
Sub-discipline
International Law
InstitutionsLSE Law School University of Georgia

Diane Marie Amann is Visiting Professor at London School of Economics LSE Law School.[1]. She is also Regents' Professor of International Law Emerita and Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law Emerita at the University of Georgia School of Law where, between 2011 and 2025, she taught courses such as Constitutional Law, Public International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights, and Transnational & International Criminal Law, and served as an Associate Dean, as a Faculty Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, and as Professor International Affairs (by courtesy) at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. Previously, she was Professor of Law, Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar, and founding Director of the California International Law Center[2] at the University of California, Davis School of Law.

Amann has held visiting posts at: University College London UCL Faculty of Laws; the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Bonavero Institute of Human Rights[3] and Exeter College, Oxford[4]; University of Paris Faculty of Law; UCLA School of Law; UC Berkeley School of Law; Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; USC Shoah Foundation; School of Law, Trinity College Dublin; and Max Planck Institute Luxembourg.

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, a 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 U.S. District Judge Prentice Marshall, and practiced as a federal criminal defense attorney in San Francisco before entering academia.[9]

Amann is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, former Counsellor and past Vice President of the American Society of International Law,[10] 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.[11] She is a Distinguished Fellow of the National Institute of Military Justice.[12]

In addition to her numerous print publications,[13] 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!,[14] Just Security,[15] The New York Times' Room for Debate,[16] SCOTUSblog,[17] Slate's Convictions,[18] The Blog of Legal Times,[19] and The Huffington Post.[20] She was the founding editor and contributor (2007-2021) of IntLawGrrls,[21] a blog that featured contributors from hundreds of judges, academics, students, and practitioners.

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References

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  1. ^ https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/visiting-professors/diane-amann. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ California International Law Center
  3. ^ "Diane Marie Amann". Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
  4. ^ "Professor Diane Marie Amann". Exeter College, Oxford.
  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. ^ "The American Society of International Law Leadership". Archived from the original on 2009-12-18. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  11. ^ "Diane Marie Amann | WWW.law.uga.edu".
  12. ^ "American University Washington College of Law". www.wcl.american.edu. Archived from the original on 2006-09-09.
  13. ^ http://dianemarieamann.com/publication/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ "In Bemba and Beyond, Crimes Adjudged to Commit Themselves".
  15. ^ "Diane Marie Amann, Author at Just Security".
  16. ^ "Guantanamo Bay - Room for Debate Blog - the New York Times". 9 March 2010.
  17. ^ "Diane Marie Amann, Author at SCOTUSblog".
  18. ^ "Slate Blogs". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
  19. ^ "Justicestevens".
  20. ^ "HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. And World News". HuffPost.
  21. ^ "IntLawGrrls".
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