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Diane Marie Amann

Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law

B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., University of California at Los Angeles
J.D., Northwestern University
Dr.h.c., Universiteit Utrecht

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Courses

International Law
Laws of War

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Biographical Information

International law scholar Diane Marie Amann joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2011 as the holder of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law. She comes to the law school from the University of California at Davis, and this year will teach International Law and the Laws of War.

Her research examines the interaction of national, regional and international legal regimes in efforts to combat atrocity and cross-border crime. She has published more than four dozen chapters and articles in English, French and Italian and was honored with the Article of the Year in International Criminal Law Award in 2005 by the International Association of Penal Law for her article "Abu Ghraib."

Her work has appeared in publications such as the American Journal of International Law, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the UCLA Law Review and the Revue de science criminelle et de droit pénal comparé.

During her 16-year tenure at UC Davis, Amann served as the founding director of the California International Law Center and was a Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Research Scholar for the 2010-11 academic year. She received the school's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000 and its inaugural Homer Angelo Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Law in 2011. Her other academic experience includes serving as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland-Galway, and as a professeur invitée at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Prior to joining academe, Amann served as a judicial clerk for Judge Prentice H. Marshall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, whose biography she is writing. She has also worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster, as an assistant federal public defender and as a solo practitioner in San Francisco.

She has served as vice president of the American Society of International Law and chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools. Additionally, the Section on International Law of the American Bar Association gave her its Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law in 2010.  A frequent commentator in national and international media, Amann is the founder of IntLawGrrls blog.

Amann earned her bachelor's degree with highest honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; her master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles; her law degree cum laude from Northwestern University, where she served as note and comment editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif; and her Dr.h.c. degree in law from the Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands.

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