Diane Marie Amann

Diane Marie Amann is the Associate Dean for International Programs & Strategic Initiatives & Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Georgia African Studies Institute.^[4] She is an expert on the interaction of national, regional, and international legal regimes in efforts to combat atrocity and cross-border crime, in areas ranging from counterterrorism measures at Guantánamo to international criminal justice efforts at The Hague.^[5] In December 2012, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda named Amann her Special Adviser on Children in and affected by Armed Conflict.^[6]

Amann holds a Doctor honoris causa degree from Utrecht Universiteit in the Netherlands, 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.^[7] 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.^[8] Formerly Professor of Law and founding Director of the California International Law Center^[9] at the University of California, Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall), she served as Vice President of the American Society of International Law^[10] from 2009-2011 and as Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools from 2009 to 2010.^[11] She is a board member of the National Institute of Military Justice.^[12] She is on the External Board of the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster.

Amann is Editor-in-Chief of the American Society of International Law Benchbook on International Law (2014).^[13] In addition to her print publications,^[14] Amann has blogged at The New York Times' Room for Debate,^[15] SCOTUSblog,^[16] Slate's Convictions,^[17] The Blog of Legal Times,^[18] and The Huffington Post.^[19] She was the founding editor and contributor of IntLawGrrls,^[20] 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.^[21]

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