Diane Marie Amann
Diane Marie Amann (Bluesky) is Departmental Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Oxford and serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. She is also Visiting Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science Law School, Honorary Professor at University College London Faculty of Laws, and Regents’ Professor Emerita and Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law Emerita at the University of Georgia School of Law. She has taught or visited at several other institutions, in France, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the United States.
Having served as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict, Amann frequently has published on that subject; in 2026, she gave evidence on children and conflict to the UK Parliament’s Standing Committee on Atrocity Crimes. Additional publications examine laws of war and peace, constitutionalism, human rights and security, and legal history (in particular, the roles of lawyers and other women professionals at post-World War II war crimes trials). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and past Vice President and Counsellor of the American Society of International Law, Amann clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens and was an Assistant Federal Public Defender in San Francisco.
