Anne-Marie Carstens serves as Director of the Lawyering Program and teaches Lawyering, Property, Civil Procedure, and international law and cultural heritage courses. She previously served as visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center and, more recently, co-chaired its certificate program on Art and Cultural Heritage Law. She has also taught intellectual property and cultural heritage courses for Georgetown Law and for Tulsa Law in their London-based international study programs and taught an undergraduate legal writing course at the University of Maryland College Park.
Her research and scholarship focus primarily on international cultural heritage law and on cultural identity in the domestic and international spheres. She served as an expert advisor on cultural property issues at the U.S. Department of State and chaired the Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. She has presented widely on issues concerning the legal protection of cultural sites and artifacts, including at the U.S. Senate, U.S. Department of State, Acropolis Museum, Chatham House (Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs, London), and leading universities worldwide. Her publications include Intersections in International Cultural Heritage Law (as co-editor and contributor) and a forthcoming book on Safeguarding Cultural Property During Armed Conflict. In addition, she has authored book chapters on public international law and also been published in the Minnesota Law Review, the Washington Law Review, the Stanford Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law, the British Year Book of International Law, the American Journal of Legal History, among others. She also serves as a deputy editor and reviewer for a variety of peer-reviewed publications.
After law school, Professor Carstens clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced litigation in Washington and in London at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. She received her J.D. from Georgetown Law, where she served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Virginia and a DPhil in Law (Public International Law) from Oxford University. During her doctoral studies, she was competitively selected by the Oxford Law Faculty for a research residency at Yale Law School and awarded a grant for summer study at the Hague Academy of International Law.
