Professor Anne Orford

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Michaell D Kirby Professor of International Law, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities

Languages spoken: English, French

Anne Orford is the holder of the Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School. She researches in the fields of international law, international legal theory, international law and security, international economic law, international law and development, and histories of international law and empire. Her publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (CUP, 2011), the edited collection International Law and its Others (CUP, 2006), and Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (CUP, 2003). Anne 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, and has been awarded a research-only Future Fellowship by the Australian Research Council to undertake a project on From Famine to Food Security: The Role of International Law from 2012 to 2015. Anne has been the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg (2011-12), Visiting Professor at Lund University (2011, 2007, 2005), a core faculty member of the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy Workshop (2011), a senior Emile Noël Research Fellow at New York University (2003), and has lectured in the Cornell Law and Humanities Colloquium (2008), the NYU Institute for International Law and Justice Colloquium (2005), the Helsinki Summer Seminar on International Law (2004) and the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute (1998). She is a researcher in the project on Justice and International Law in a Global World at the University of Paris 1. With Professor Dino Kritsiotis (Nottingham) and Professor Joseph Weiler (NYU), she will convene the Annual Junior Faculty Forum in International Law from 2012.


 


Representative Publications
Anne Orford, ‘Europe Reconstructed' (2012) 75(2) Modern Law Review 275-286 (in press)
 
Anne Orford, 'Constituting Order' in James Crawford and Martti Koskenniemi (eds), The Cambridge Companion to International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 271-289
 
Anne Orford, International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
 
Anne Orford, International Law and its Others (edited collection, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
 

Anne Orford, Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Anne Orford, ‘Muscular Humanitarianism: Reading the Narratives of the New Interventionism’ (1999) 10 European Journal of International Law 679-711

Anne Orford, ‘Locating the International: Military and Monetary Interventions after the Cold War’ (1997) 38 Harvard International Law Journal 443-485


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Anne Orford


Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
 
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