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Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann publishes in European Journal of International Law

“A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy,” an essay by University of Georgia School of Law Professor Diane Marie Amann, has just been published at European Journal of International Law 813 (2024).

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.

Her article, which draws upon her ongoing research into lawyers and other women professionals played at post-World War II trials, forms part of the journal’s special review series marking the centenary of the Hague Academy of International Law.

Available here, the article focuses on the life of one “Nuremberg woman,” Dr. Aline Chalufour, who attended the Academy in 1937 and again in 1957. Her experiences both shed light on how marginalized groups fared in the Academy’s first 100 years, and also call upon the Academy, and the field it promotes, to do better in the next 100 years.

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.