Diane Marie Amann

Diane Marie Amann returns during the 2024 Michaelmas Term as a Research Visitor at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University Faculty of Law, a post she also held in 2018. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College. She will pursue her scholarship related to the women who played roles in international criminal trials after World War II and also her work on child rights, especially as they relate to armed conflict and similar violence.

Amann is Regents’ Professor, 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. Currently a member of the Bring Back Kids UA Task Force, she served from 2012 to 2021 as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict.

She has also held permanent or visiting positions at the University of California-Davis School of Law, University College London Faculty of Laws, Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, UCLA School of Law, University of California-Berkeley School of Law, University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at University of Galway.

Amann is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Vice President and Counsellor of the American Society of International Law, and former Coordinating Committee member of the European Society of International Law International Criminal Law Interest Group. Before entering academia, she clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and practiced law in San Francisco. She holds a Dr.h.c. in law from Universiteit Utrecht, a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern University, an M.A. in political science from UCLA, and a B.S. in journalism, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.