Anne Orford

{{Short description|Australian International law scholar}}

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{{Infobox academic||alma_mater=University of Adelaide PhD|thesis_year=1999|thesis_title=Securing the new world order: an analysis of representations of the legality of Security Council actions in the post-Cold War era|footnotes=|influenced=|notable_works=|main_interests=|workplaces=Melbourne Law School|sub_discipline=|discipline=International law|era=|doctoral_advisor=Hilary Charlesworth|thesis_url=http://hdl.handle.net/2440/80080|website=|name=Anne Orford|awards=Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship, 2015|relatives=|parents=|spouse=|boards=|known_for=|period=|nationality=|death_place=|death_date=|birth_place=|birth_date=|honorific_suffix={{post-nominals|country=AUS|FASSA|size=100}}}}Anne Orford {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FASSA}} is a professor of law and an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Her main focus of research are in the areas of public international law, history and theory of international law and international economic law.

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2016{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Professor Anne Orford FASSA|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9MdAAI|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521131921/https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9MdAAI|archive-date=2021-05-21|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-AU}} and is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, furthermore she holds the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor title with which the University of Melbourne "recognises and rewards outstanding leaders within the University's professoriate".{{Cite web|last=Council|first=Australian Research|date=2018-06-12|title=Profiles: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellows|url=https://www.arc.gov.au/policies-strategies/strategy/gender-equality-research/kathleen-fitzpatrick-and-georgina-sweet-australian-laureate-fellows/profiles-kathleen-fitzpatrick-fellows|access-date=2021-05-13|website=www.arc.gov.au|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Katherine|date=2020-12-18|title=The University's Redmond Barry Distinguished Professors|url=https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/distinguished-professors|access-date=2021-05-13|website=About us|language=en}}

She has been awarded honorary doctorates in law by the University of Gothenburg (2012),{{Cite web|title=Honorary doctors {{!}} University of Gothenburg|url=https://www.gu.se/en/school-business-economics-law/about-us/facts-figures/honorary-doctors|access-date=2021-05-13|website=www.gu.se|language=en}} and the University of Helsinki (2017){{Cite web|date=2017-03-07|title=Angela Merkel, Sauli Niinistö and Irja Askola to receive honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki|url=https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/news/higher-education-science-policy/angela-merkel-sauli-niinisto-and-irja-askola-to-receive-honorary-doctorates-from-the-university-of-helsinki|access-date=2021-05-13|website=University of Helsinki|language=en|quote="The Faculty of Law will confer honorary doctorates on Anne Orford, professor of international law; "}} and the Woodward Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences by the University of Melbourne. She was awarded the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2015.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2015-06-24|title=University congratulates new ARC Laureate Fellows|url=http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/university-congratulates-new-arc-laureate-fellows|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102020211/http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/university-congratulates-new-arc-laureate-fellows|archive-date=2019-01-02|access-date=2021-07-13|website=The Melbourne Newsroom|language=en}}