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Georgia Law Professor Sonja R. West presents at Oxford’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

University of Georgia School of Law Professor Sonja R. West participated in two events hosted by the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford in June. First, she was part of a Comparative Media Law Workshop; then, she presented as part of a panel titled “The Future of Press Freedom” at the Democracy, Law, and Independent Journalism conference.

The Bonavero Institute is dedicated to fostering world-class research and scholarship in human rights law, to promoting public engagement in and understanding of human rights issues, and to building valuable conversations and collaborations between human rights scholars and human rights practitioners.

West holds the Otis Brumby Distinguished Professorship in First Amendment Law, a post shared by the law school and Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She specializes in constitutional law, media law and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann speaks at Oxford Union on international law and head of state immunities

From left, Israr Khan, Professor Diane Marie Amann, and Professor Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos

University of Georgia School of Law Professor Diane Marie Amann spoke last Friday in the United Kingdom, on an Oxford Union panel entitled “Crimes of the Powerful: Should Head of State Immunity Be Abolished under International Law?”

Her co-panelist was Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, who is Professor of Law at the University of Athens, Greece, and the former President of the European Court of Human Rights. Moderating was Israr Khan, President of the Oxford Union, a 200-year-old debating society which draws much of its membership from the University of Oxford.

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.

Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann elected Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Exeter College

Earlier this month University of Georgia School of Law Professor Diane Marie Amann was elected a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford University, for this autumn’s Michaelmas Term.

While in the United Kingdom, she is serving simultaneously as a Research Visitor at the Oxford Faculty of Law Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.

Amann is Regents’ Professor, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center here at the University of Georgia School of Law. Her courses include Public International Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Transnational Criminal Law.

During this research-intensive semester Amann is pursuing her scholarship related to women professionals who played roles in international criminal trials after World War II and also her work on child rights, especially as they relate to armed conflict and similar violence.

Founded in 1314, Exeter College is the fourth-oldest among Oxford’s three dozen colleges. It is located in the city center next to the university’s Bodleian Library.

Georgia Law Professor Amann a Research Visitor at Oxford’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann is in the United Kingdom during this Fall 2024 semester, serving as a Research Visitor at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford University Faculty of Law.

The faculty sponsor for Amann’s visit is Professor Dapo Akande. Oxford’s Chichele Professor of Public International Law and a member of the U.N. International Law Commission, he has just been nominated as the UK candidate for election to the International Court of Justice.

Amann, who is Regents’ Professor, Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center here at the University of Georgia School of Law, held the same Oxford post during another research-intensive semester, Spring 2018.

She plans to pursue her scholarship related to women professionals who played roles in international criminal trials after World War II and also her work on child rights, especially as they relate to armed conflict and similar violence.

As a Research Visitor, she also will have the opportunity to take part in Bonavero Institute activities, and will benefit from Oxford’s libraries, seminars and lectures, and other offerings.

The Bonavero Institute was founded in 2016 as a unit of the Oxford Faculty of Law, under the direction of Professor Kate O’Regan, a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.