Anne Orford is the Michael D Kirby Professor of International Law and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where she is also the Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities. She researches in the areas of international law and legal theory, with a current focus on histories of international law and empire. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (CUP, 2003) and the edited collection International Law and its Others (CUP, 2006). She was awarded a research-only Australian Professorial Fellowship by the Australian Research Council to undertake a project on Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law from 2007 to 2011. As part of that project, she is finalising work on a book entitled International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (CUP, forthcoming 2010). The book offers a history, from Hobbes to the UN, of attempts to ground de facto authority on the capacity to guarantee security and protection.
Professor Orford has held visiting positions at New York University and Lund University, and previous appointments at La Trobe University and the Australian National University. She has presented lectures and seminars by invitation at many institutions including the Central European University, Cornell University, DePauw University, the European University Institute, Keele University, Lancaster University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Osgoode Hall Law School, Stockholm University, the University of Helsinki, the University of Oxford, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Toronto, the University of Vienna, the University of Westminster, Uppsala University and the World Trade Organization.
She is on the Editorial Boards of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Transnational Legal Theory, and the Advisory Boards of the Journal of Intervention and State-Building, In-Spire: Journal of Law, Politics and Societies and the Melbourne Journal of International Law. She was a member of the Selection Committee for the Australian Government's Responsibility to Protect Fund in 2009.
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