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Georgia Law Professor Emerita Diane Marie Amann presents during ESIL gathering at University of Málaga, Spain

University of Georgia School of Law Professor Emerita Diane Marie Amann recently presented “Ungentlemanlike Behaviour; or, Official Immunisation and Uneven Judicialisation” during the annual gathering of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), held this year at the University of Málaga in Spain.

Amann’s talk considered the interrelation of international and national legal developments respecting grants of immunity to heads of state and certain other high-ranking officials, using the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the topic as a point of departure.

Hers was one of eight papers discussed during “Conflicts before Courts: Revisiting ‘Uneven Judicialization in Global Order’ Fifteen Years On,” a pre-conference workshop sponsored by ESIL’s Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals the morning that ESIL’s annual conference began. Serving as discussing and moderator, respectively, were Professors James Devaney (Glasgow) and Yusra Suedi (Manchester).

Amann, who is Regents’ Professor Emerita and Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law Emerita at Georgia Law, served for many years as a Faculty Co-Director of our Dean Rusk International Law Center. Currently Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science Law School and Honorary Professor at University College London Faculty of Laws, starting in October she will begin service as Departmental Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Oxford.

Georgia Law Professor Nathan Chapman gives scholarly presentations at Oxford and Heidelberg universities

Nathan Chapman, Pope F. Brock Associate Professor of Professional Responsibility here at the University of Georgia School of Law, is just back after giving scholarly presentations at Oxford University in the United Kingdom and the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

The Oxford Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Governance hosted Professor Chapman’s visit last month to the Oxford University Faculty of Law, where he gave two presentations:

  • “Judicial Review in the US As a Tradition of Moral Reasoning.” Commenting were Professor Richard Ekins (St. John’s, Oxford) and Professor Fernando Simon Yarza (Oxford/Navarre).
  • “The Doctrine of Qualified Immunity,” which summarized his argument in “The Fair Notice Rationale for Qualified Immunity,” forthcoming in the Florida Law Review. Professor Timothy Endicott (All Soul’s, Oxford) commented.

In Germany, Chapman presented as part of the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum, or International Academic Forum, at the University of Heidelberg. Entitled “Government Conditions on Religious School Funding,” the chapter will appear in an interdisciplinary book on The Impact of Political Economy on Character Formation. Workshop participants were the other authors and editors of the book. They included scholars in social theory, theology, philosophy, economics, and law from the Universities of Chicago, Heidelberg, Bonn, Queensland, and Stellenbosch, located, respectively, in the United States, Germany, Australia, and South Africa.