Michael D Kirby Professor of International Law & Australian Research Council Future Fellow
Languages spoken: English, French
Anne Orford is the holder of the Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School. Her publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (CUP, 2011), International Law and its Others (CUP, 2006), and Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (CUP, 2003). She has been awarded two major Australian Resarch Council fellowships, to undertake projects on Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law (2007 to 2011) and From Famine to Food Security: The Role of International Law (2012 to 2015). Anne was the Foundation Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School from 2005 to 2012. She has been the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg (2011-12), a Visiting Professor at Lund University (2011, 2007, 2005), a core faculty member of the Workshop on Global Law and Economic Policy at Harvard Law School (2011), a Senior Emile Noël Research Fellow at New York University (2003), and has lectured in the Helsinki Summer Seminar on International Law (2012, 2004), the Cornell Law and Humanities Colloquium (2008), the NYU Institute for International Law and Justice Colloquium (2005), the Academy of European Law (1998) and presented the 2012 Rechtskulturen lecture hosted by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Humboldt University Law School. She has delivered keynote addresses and public lectures in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, the UK, and the US, and has presented her work by invitation to academic audiences from numerous disciplines (including development studies, diplomacy, English, ethics, history, international relations, law, political science, and public policy), non-governmental organisations, international organisations, law firms, and governments. She will be awarded an honorary doctorate by Lund University in May 2012.
Anne Orford, 'In Praise of Description' (2012) 25 Leiden Journal of International Law (In press)
Anne Orford, 'Europe Reconstructed' (2012) 75 Modern Law Review 275-286
Anne Orford, 'Constituting Order' in James Crawford and Martti Koskenniemi (eds), The Cambridge Companion to International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 271-289
Anne Orford, International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Anne Orford (ed), International Law and its Others (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)
