Professors Amann, Bjorklund Nominated for ASIL Offices

Professors Diane Marie Amann and Andrea K. Bjorklund have been nominated for elected office in the American Society of International Law (ASIL).  Professor Amann has been nominated to become an ASIL vice president, and Professor Bjorklund has been nominated for the organization's Executive Council. Also nominated as an ASIL vice president is Dinah Shelton, a former visiting professor at King Hall who is now a professor at George Washington University School of Law.  They have been recommended by the ASIL 2008-09 Nominating Committee and approved by the Executive Council, and will be presented for election at the ASIL General Meeting on March 26, 2009.

Diane Marie Amann is a Professor at the UC Davis School of Law, Director of the California International Law Center at King Hall.  An expert on how national, regional, and international legal regimes interact, Professor Amann's scholarship examines U.S. policies respecting executive detention at Guantánamo and elsewhere, the war crimes trials of Saddam Hussein and others, and the use of foreign and international law in U.S. constitutional decision making.  In addition to her service for ASIL, Amann is the 2009-2010 Chair of the Section of International Law of the Association of American Law Schools.  

Andrea Bjorklund is a Professor at the UC Davis School of Law.  Her research focuses on international investment distribution and she has published widely in that area, with articles in the Virginia Journal of International Law, the American Review of International Arbitration, and the Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law.