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Georgia Law Professor Sonja R. West presents at University College London

University of Georgia School of Law Professor Sonja R. West presented “The History and Tradition of Press Freedom” as part of the Comparative Media Law Workshop hosted by University College London during July. 

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. In recognition of her scholarship, West was awarded the School of Law’s 2022 Faculty Research Award in Public Law, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2022 and 2017 Harry W. Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy, and the National Communication Association’s 2016 Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression. Her work has been published in numerous law reviews and journals including the Harvard Law Review, the California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Michigan Law Review and the Northwestern Law Review. She also was selected to serve as a 2023-2024 Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

Georgia Law Professor Diane Marie Amann discusses nonpeaceful dispute settlement at University College London-National University of Singapore conference on “The Future of International Law”

University of Georgia School of Law Professor Emerita Diane Marie Amann recently took part in a panel entitled “(non-)peacefulness of the settlement of international disputes” at “The Future of International Law: Reflections on Challenges New and Old” conference at University College London Faculty of Laws. Cosponsoring along with UCL Laws was the National University of Singapore Centre for International Law.

Also on the panel were King’s College London Law Professor Christian J. Tams, International Law Commission  member Vilawan Mangklatanakul, University of Geneva Law Professor Makane Moïse Mbengue, and University of Reading Law Professor Marko Milanovic. Together they explored current developments in relation to legal norms on the use of force, territorial conquest, decolonization, and economic coercion.

Organizers of the daylong conference with UCL Laws Professor Martins Paparinskis and NUS Law Senior Fellow Nilufer Oral.

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. At present she is an Academic Affiliate at University College London Faculty of Laws.

UGA Law professor Diane Marie Amann and UCL Professor Martins Paparinskis

UGA Law Professor Amann presents “Child-Taking and the International Criminal Arrest Warrant” at University College London Faculty of Laws

University of Georgia School of Law Professor Diane Marie Amann, an expert on child and human rights, international criminal law, and the laws of war, presented a lecture entitled “Child-Taking and the International Criminal Arrest Warrant” at University College London Faculty of Laws in June.

News that the International Criminal Court is seeking the arrest of Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, and Child Rights Commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, drew attention to the war crimes charged: “unlawful deportation of population (children)” and “unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas.” Professor Amann’s lecture examined these and similar crimes, which she labels “child-taking.” International child-taking trials date to the Nuremberg tribunals, and have continued in modern forums like the ICC. Court records demonstrate that child-taking is no minor crime. Its present gravity and future consequences are heavy; so too, the prosecutorial burdens of securing indictments, conviction, and redress.

This presentation was chaired by UCL Professor of Public International Law, Martins Paparinskis.

Amann is the Regents’ Professor of International Law, the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, and a Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center.