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. During the autumn 2024 Michaelmas Term, she is in the United Kingdom, serving as Research Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Bonavero Institute of Human Rights^[2] and as a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford.^[3]

At Georgia Law, she has served since mid-2017 as a Faculty Co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, a position she took up after completing a term as Associate Dean for International Programs & Strategic Initiatives. Additionally, she is Professor (by courtesy) of International Affairs at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Georgia African Studies Institute.^[4]

Amann served from 2012 to 2021 as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's Special Adviser on Children in and affected by Armed Conflict;^[5] her service included assisting in preparation of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor Policy on Children (2016).^[6] Her 2019 lecture entitled "Child Rights, Conflict, and International Criminal Justice" is part of the United Nations Audiovisual Library on International Law.^[7]

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.^[8] 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.^[9] Formerly Professor of Law and founding Director of the California International Law Center^[10] at the University of California, Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall), she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Counsellor and past Vice President of the American Society of International Law,^[11] former co-chair of the European Society of International Law Interest Group on International Criminal Justice, and past Chair of the Section on International Law of the Association of American Law Schools.^[12] She is a board member of the National Institute of Military Justice.^[13]

In addition to her numerous print publications,^[14] including in the American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, Michigan Journal of International Law, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Amann has blogged at EJIL: Talk!,^[15] Just Security,^[16] The New York Times' Room for Debate,^[17] SCOTUSblog,^[18] Slate's Convictions,^[19] The Blog of Legal Times,^[20] and The Huffington Post.^[21] She was the founding editor and contributor of IntLawGrrls,^[22] 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.^[23]

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 4)

• Georgia Law webpage
• Personal website/blog
• SSRN page