Prof. Amann is the holder of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia. She has taught on the law faculties of the University of California-Davis, University of California-Berkeley, University of California - Los Angeles, and visited at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway and Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Recognitions of her extensive work in international law, on issues including child-soldiering, the laws of war, and post-conflict accountability, include an honorary doctorate in law from Utrecht Universiteit, the Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law, and the Article of the Year in International Criminal Law Award. Prior to joining academe, Prof. Diane Amann served as a judicial clerk for Judge Prentice H. Marshall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She has also practiced as a federal criminal defence attorney in San Francisco and served as a Vice President of the American Society of International Law. Prof. Amann has published widely in English, French and Italian, and a frequent commentator in national and international media, she is the founder of the “IntLawGrrls” blog. In December 2012 she was appointed by Madam Prosecutor as Special Adviser to the OTP on Children in and affected by Armed Conflict.