Diane Marie Amann is Visiting Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science Law School, Regents’ Professor Emerita and Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law Emerita at University of Georgia School of Law. She serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

While at Georgia Law (2011-2025), she taught Constitutional Law, Public International Law, Laws of War, Human Rights, and Transnational & International Criminal Law, and served as Associate Dean and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, as well 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.

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

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 transnational and 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: University College London Faculty of Laws; 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.

She practiced law in San Francisco before state and federal trial courts and before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as an Assistant Federal Public Defender, Associate at Morrison & Foerster, and sole practitioner. Amann also served as a law clerk for US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and for US District Judge Prentice H. Marshall in Chicago.

She holds a Dr hc degree in law from Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands, and earned a JD 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 MA in political science, with emphases in international relations and political theory, from the University of California-Los Angeles, and a BS in journalism, with highest honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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 Prominent Woman 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.