Anne Orford
- Nationality
- Australia
- Year of election
- 2025
Function(s)
- Melbourne Laureate Professor and Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, University of Melbourne
- Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
Area(s) of Expertise
- Public international law;
- history and theory of international law;
- international economic law;
- international law on the use of force;
- climate change and international law.
Biography
Anne Orford is Melbourne Laureate Professor and Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. She has been a Visiting Legal Fellow at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and an international expert adviser on climate change and international law to the Pacific Islands Forum. She presented a Special Course at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2021.
In addition to visiting at Harvard Law School since 2019, she has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Hedda Andersson Visiting Chair at Lund University, the Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Senior Emile Noël Research Fellow at NYU School of Law, and the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Stockholm University.
Her latest book, International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge University Press, 2021), was awarded the 2022 European Society of International Law Monograph Prize for Excellence in International Law Scholarship. She has been awarded honorary doctorates in law by Lund University, the University of Gothenburg, and the University of Helsinki, the Woodward Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences by the University of Melbourne, and three Australian Research Council fellowships, including the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship
Selected publications
1. ‘Reparations, Climate Change, and the Background Rules of International Law’ (2025) 119 American Journal of International Law 452-483
2. International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 3. ‘Regional Orders, Geopolitics, and the Future of International Law’ (2021) 74 Current Legal Problems 149-94
3. ‘A Global Rule of Law’ in M Loughlin and J Meierhenrich eds, The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 538-66
4. The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016) (co-edited with F Hoffmann)
5. ‘Food Security, Free Trade, and the Battle for the State’ (2015) 11 Journal of International Law and International Relations 1-67
6. International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
7. Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
8. ‘Locating the International: Military and Monetary Interventions after the Cold War’ (1997) 38 Harvard Journal of International Law 443-85
