Diane Marie Amann is an Academic Affiliate at University College London Faculty of Laws, having been a Visiting Academic there in Summers 2022 and 2025.

She is Regents’ Professor Emerita and the 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 (jus ad bellum and jus in bello), Human Rights, and Transnational & International Criminal Law, and served as an Associate Dean, as Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, and as Professor of International Affairs (by courtesy) at the School of Public & International Affairs. Previously, she was Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at the University of California-Davis School of Law.

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

Her scholarship includes more than a hundred publications in English, French, and Italian, on public international law, constitutional law, laws of war and peace, human and child rights, global legal history, and national/transnational/international criminal justice. Her most recent publications are “Child-Taking Justice and the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative,” 119 American Journal of International Law 629 (2025), and “Absented at the Creation: Nuremberg Women and International Criminal Justice,” in The Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law 69 (J. Jarpa Dawuni, Nienke Grossman, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Hélène Ruiz Fabri eds., Oxford University Press, 2025).

She is frequently quoted in the media and posts online commentaries, including at her Substack site, “gloss.”

Amann has held visiting posts at: Faculty of Law Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Exeter College, and Mansfield College, University of Oxford; Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne); University of California-Los Angeles School of Law; University of California-Berkeley School of Law; Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; University of Southern California Shoah Foundation; Max Planck Institute Luxembourg; Irish Centre for Human Rights at University of Galway; and Trinity College Dublin School of Law.

Amann practiced law in San Francisco, before state and federal trial courts and before the US 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 US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and for Judge Prentice H. Marshall of the US 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 & Comment Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif, an M.A. in political science, with emphases in international relations and political theory, from the University of California-Los Angeles, and a B.S. in journalism, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She 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 Prominent Women in International Law award from ASIL’s Women in International Law Interest Group and the Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law from the Section on International Law of the American Bar Association.