Anne Orford

Anne Orford is the holder of the Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Melbourne Law School. Her publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (CUP, 2011), 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 holds a Doctor of Laws honoris causa from Lund University and from the University of Gothenburg. Anne 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). She was the Foundation Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School from 2005 to 2012.

Anne will be a Visiting Professor at the Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne in January 2013. 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), and the Academy of European Law (1998).

Anne currently supervises 9 doctoral students working in the areas of international law, international legal history, international legal theory, collective security, law and development, international economic law, and human rights, and has supervised 10 doctoral students to completion. She welcomes new students in these and related fields. With Professor Dino Kritsiotis (Nottingham) and Professor Joseph Weiler (NYU), she co-convenes the Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law.