| Diane Marie Amann | |
| Discipline: | International law, constitutional law, human rights, children's rights, national security, laws of war, comparative law, criminal law |
| Workplaces: | University of Georgia School of Law |
| Clerked For: | Judge Prentice H. Marshall, Justice John Paul Stevens --> |
| Education: | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BS) Northwestern University (JD) |
Diane Marie Amann is Regents' Professor of International Law[1] and holds the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. She has served since mid-2017 as a faculty co-director of the law school's Dean Rusk International Law Center, a position she took up after completing a two-and-a-half-year term as Associate Dean for International Programs & Strategic Initiatives. Additionally, she serves as Professor (by courtesy) of International Affairs at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs and as an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Georgia African Studies Institute.[2] From December 2012 to June 2021, she served as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's Special Adviser on Children in and affected by Armed Conflict;[3] her service included assisting in preparation of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor Policy on Children (2016).[4] Her 2019 lecture entitled "Child Rights, Conflict, and International Criminal Justice" is part of the United Nations Audiovisual Library on International Law.[5]
Amann holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, an M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[6] She served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and practiced as a federal criminal defense attorney in San Francisco before entering academia.[7] Formerly Professor of Law and founding Director of the California International Law Center[8] at the University of California, Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall), she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Counsellor and past Vice President of the American Society of International Law,[9] from 2009 to 2011 and past Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools.[10] She is a board member of the National Institute of Military Justice.[11]
Amann is Editor-in-Chief of the American Society of International Law Benchbook on International Law (2014).[12] In addition to her print publications,[13] Amann has blogged at,[14] Just Security,[15] The New York Times' Room for Debate,[16] SCOTUSblog,[17] Slate's Convictions,[18] The Blog of Legal Times,[19] and The Huffington Post.[20] She was the founding editor and contributor of IntLawGrrls,[21] a blog that featured contributors from more than 300 judges, academics, students, and practitioners, from 2007 to 2012; subsequently, she launched a solo blog, Diane Marie Amann.[22]