Diane Marie Amann currently is an Academic Affiliate at University College London Faculty of Laws, where she also served in Summer 2022 as a Visiting Academic.

Amann is Regents’ Professor, the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Centre at the University of Georgia School of Law. She has taught: Constitutional Law; Public International Law; Laws of War; NATO; International Human Rights; U.S., International, and Transnational Criminal Law; Children and International Law; and Refugee & Asylum Law.

She holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia School of Public & International Affairs, and is also an affiliated faculty member of the university’s African Studies Institute. She launched this website in 2012, and maintains it in her personal capacity.

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

Amann’s scholarship includes about a hundred publications in English, French and Italian, on issues related to public international law, constitutional law, international criminal justice, human and child rights, global legal history, and security governance. Among her most recent publications are “Child-Taking Justice and the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative,” 119 American Journal of International Law 629 (2025), and ‘A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy’, 35(3) European Journal of International Law 813 (2024).

During Michaelmas Term/Fall 2024, she was a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College and also a Research Visitor at the Oxford Faculty of Law Bonavero Institute of Human Rights—the latter a post she also had held in Hilary Term/Spring 2018. Additionally, she has held permanent or visiting positions at the University of California-Davis School of Law, Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, University of California-Los Angeles 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 practiced law in San Francisco, before state and federal trial courts and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She was an Assistant Federal Public Defender, a solo federal criminal defense practitioner, and a litigation associate at Morrison & Foerster. She also served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and for Judge Prentice H. Marshall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Professor Amann holds a Dr.h.c. degree in law from Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. She earned a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, where she served as a Note and Comment Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif, an M.A. in political science from the University of California-Los Angeles, and a B.S. in journalism, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Professor Amann is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a past Counsellor and Vice President of the American Society of International Law, and a past Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools. She received the 2013 Prominent Women in International Law award from ASIL’s Women in International Law Interest Group and the 2010 Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law from the Section on International Law of the American Bar Association. She was the founding contributor to IntLawGrrls blog from 2007 to 2012. Amann is frequently quoted in national and international media.