Diane Marie Amann, Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law in the University of Georgia School of Law, is available to offer commentary on the laws of war as they relate to the current situation with Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic.
Amann’s research examines the interaction of national, regional and international legal regimes in an effort to combat atrocity and cross-border crime. She has published more than four dozen chapters and articles in English, French and Italian in publications such as the American Journal of International Law, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the UCLA Law Review and the Revue de science criminelle et de droit pénal comparé.
Additional information on Amann is available at http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/diane-marie-amann and her blog is available at http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com/.
Amann can be reached atamann@uga.edu or 415/867-3874.
Amy Ross, associate professor of geography, is available to offer commentary onthe International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY, often called the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague), the crimes Mladic is alleged to have committed in Srebrenica, and the impact of this arrest on the landscape of international justice.
Ross’ research examines human rights and wrongs, international justice, geographies of justice, international institutions and the global civil society, genocide, the spatiality of violence. She has conducted research on truth commissions and international courts.
Additional information on Ross, including publications, is available at http://www.ggy.uga.edu/people/faculty/aross/.
Ross can be reached at rossamy@uga.edu or 706/380-1636.