Prof. Diane A. Desierto, J.S.D. (Yale), LL.M. (Yale), LL.B., B.S. Econ. (University of the Philippines), is Professor of Law and Global Affairs, tenured at both Notre Dame Law School and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. At the Law School, she serves as Faculty Director of the LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law and the Global Human Rights Clinic. At the Keough School, she is Faculty Fellow in five institutes—the Klau Institute on Civil and Human Rights, Kellogg Institute of International Studies, Liu Institute on Asia and Asian Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Pulte Institute for Global Development—and Co-Principal Investigator of the Notre Dame Reparations Design and Compliance Lab.  She is also appointed by the Supreme Court of the Philippines as Professor in the Philippines Judicial Academy.

Prof. Desierto teaches International Law, International Dispute Settlement, Global Human Rights Clinic I & II, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and directed readings on specialized topics in international law and human rights. She is the sole author, co-author, or editor of eleven books and 200 law review articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews on public international law, human rights and humanitarian law, international economic law and development, maritime security, and marine environmental protection.

She completed 12 years of service as a Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law (and EJIL:Talk!), and 5 years in the Journal of World Investment and Trade, and International Law Studies. She presently serves in the Editorial Boards of the Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law, Global Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence, and the Kluwer Law monographs on Human Society and International Law. She has served as Chair-Rapporteur of the United Nations Expert Group on the Right to Development. She was one of the drafters of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration, the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, and the Draft International Covenant on the Right to Development.