Anne Orford is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, and an Australian Laureate Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where she directs the Laureate Programme in International Law. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and former President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. Her work has been recognised through the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (2015-20); a Future Fellowship (2012-15) and an Australian Professorial Fellowship, both awarded by the Australian Research Council (2007-2011); the Woodward Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences awarded by the University of Melbourne (2013); and honorary doctorates of laws awarded by Lund University (2012), the University of Gothenburg (2012), and the University of Helsinki (2017). She has held numerous visiting positions, including as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair at Lund University, Hedda Andersson Visiting Research Chair in History at Lund University, Visiting Professor at Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, and Senior Emile Noël Research Fellow at New York University.

Her scholarship combines study of the history and theory of international law, analysis of developments in international legal doctrines and practice, and an engagement with central debates and concepts in related fields, in order to grasp the changing nature and role of international law in contemporary politics. Her publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge University Press 2011), Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge University Press 2003), the edited collection International Law and its Others (Cambridge University Press 2006), and, as co-editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford University Press 2016). A collection of her essays in French translation, with an introduction by Martti Koskenniemi, will be published by Pedone in 2018.