University of Georgia Scholar Named a Special Adviser to the International Criminal Court

Diane Marie Amann, who holds the Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia, has been appointed the special adviser on children in and affected by armed conflict at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands.

Professor Amann joined the faculty at the University of Georgia in 2011. Previously, she taught at the University of California at Davis, where she was the founding director of the California International Law Center.

Professor Amann is a graduate of the University of Illinois. She earned a master’s degree in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles and a juris doctorate from the Northwestern University School of Law.