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Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann publishes “Nuremberg Women” chapter in Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law

“Absented at the Creation: Nuremberg Women and International Criminal Justice,” a chapter by University of Georgia School of Law Professor Diane Marie Amann, has just been published in a new Oxford University Press essay collection.

Amann is Regents’ Professor of International Law, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and a Faculty Co-Director of our Dean Rusk International Law Center here at Georgia Law. During her current research-intensive semester, she is an Affiliate Academic at University College London Faculty of Laws.

Her chapter appears in The Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law, co-edited by Professors J. Jarpa Dawuni (Howard University), Nienke Grossman (University of Baltimore), Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple University), and Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). The thirty-five-chapter volume spans many topics – topics that its four dozen authors explore through a variety of methods, including substantive legal analysis, legal history, and global critical race feminism.

Amann’s chapter draws from research that she had presented online as part of “In/ex-clusiveness of the Legal Construction of Justice,” a panel of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law, held in 2022 at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.

Here’s the abstract for Amann’s chapter:

Women seldom surface in conventional accounts of the many war crimes trials that took place after World War II. Yet as this chapter shows, hundreds of women lawyers and other professionals were present, thus helping to lay the foundations of an international criminal justice project that continues to this day. Combining methodologies of narrative with theories sounding in global legal history and feminist scholarship and discussing what it reveals as dances of absence-presence, visible-invisible, and inclusion-exclusion, this chapter first examines how and why women were absented and then surfaces their contributions. It concludes with a look at contemporary international legal practice.

Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann takes part in Warwick Law seminar on feminist histories of international law

University of Georgia School of Law Professor Diane Marie Amann participated last week in “How to Write Feminist Histories of International Law,” the first in a seven-session online seminar series entitled “Thinking Gender, History & International Law” hosted by the University of Warwick School of Law in Coventry, England.

Also joining in the conversation were: Professor Maria Drakopoulou, University of Kent Law School; Professor Gina Heathcote, Newcastle University Law School; Professor Aoife O’Donoghue, Queen’s University Belfast School of Law; and the seminar’s organizers, Dr. Paola Zichi and Dr. Aisel Omarova, both at Warwick Law.

Topics discussed included: what it means to apply feminist approaches to the history of international law; whether and how feminist viewpoints may enhance the writing of history; and what are the relations among feminist values, historical research, and theory or philosophy. (Register for future seminar sessions here.)

Amann, who has several publications broaching such issues, is Regents’ Professor of International Law, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and a Faculty Co-Director of our Dean Rusk International Law Center here at Georgia Law. This fall, she is spending a research-intensive semester in the United Kingdom, where she is a Research Visitor at the Oxford Faculty of Law Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Visiting Fellow at Exeter College Oxford.