Allison Marston Danner
Adjunct Professor of Law
Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California
Email: danneram@gmail.com
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Research Interests
International criminal law, international legal theory, criminal law
Education
J.D. Stanford Law School
B.A. Williams College
Biography
Allison Danner is an authority on international criminal law who now serves as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California. Professor Danner has authored amicus briefs on the law of war in litigation over the rights of enemy combatants and published articles in leading journals, including the Stanford Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the American Journal of International Law. In 2004, she received the prestigious Déak Prize from the American Society of International Law for outstanding scholarship by a young author. She serves on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School and is a past member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Before joining Vanderbilt's law faculty, Professor Danner was a clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and for Court of Appeals Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. Her scholarship and expertise encompass a variety of international law topics, including public international law, international criminal law, international trade law and policy, as well as U.S. criminal law. She is affiliated with Vanderbilt's International Legal Studies Program. In addition to serving on Vanderbilt's faculty from 2001-2007, she has taught at U.C.L.A. and Harvard Law Schools.
Representative Publications
- "Beyond the Geneva Conventions: Lessons from the Tokyo Tribunal in Prosecuting War and Terrorism," 46 Virginia Journal of International Law (2007)
- “The Nuremberg Industrialist Prosecutions and Aggressive War,” 46 Virginia Journal of International Law 651 (2007)
- "When Courts Make Law: How the International Criminal Tribunals Recast the Laws of War," 59 ," 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2006)
- "Judicial Oversight in Two Dimensions: Charting Area and Intensity in the Decisions of Justice Stevens," 74 Fordham Law Review 2051 (2006) (with Adam Samaha) (symposium issue)
- “The Nuremberg Industrialist Prosecutions and Aggressive War,” 46 Virginia Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2006) (symposium issue)
- "Beyond the Geneva Conventions: Lessons from the Tokyo Tribunal in Prosecuting War and Terrorism," 46 Virginia Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2006) (symposium issue) (link to SSRN) )
- "Guilty Associations: Joint Criminal Enterprise, Command Responsibility, and the Development of International Criminal Law," 93 ," 93 California Law Review 75 (2005) (with Jenny S. Martinez)
- "Enhancing the Legitimacy and Accountability of Prosecutorial Discretion at the International Criminal Court," 97 American Journal of International Law 510 (2003)
- "Navigating Law and Politics: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the U.S. Independent Counsel," 55 Stanford Law Review 1633 (2003) (symposium issue)
- "Constructing a Hierarchy of Crimes in International Criminal Law Sentencing," 87 Virginia Law Review 415 (2001)
