Professor in International Law at the London
School of Economics and Political Science and an overseas
affiliated faculty member of the University of Michigan Law
School. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in
2003 and is a member of Matrix Chambers. She has degrees in
law from the Universities of London (LLB and LLM) , Yale (LLM)
and Sydney (PhD). She has held full-time academic posts at
the Universities of Oxford, London, New York Law School, the
National University of Singapore, University of Sydney and
Southampton University and visiting appointments at a number
of places in Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia.
Professor Chinkin's main interests are in public
international law, especially the law of treaties, human
rights, with emphasis on the international protection of
women's rights, and international organisations, and
domestic and international dispute resolution. She is the
author of many articles on issues of international law and
of Halsbury's Laws of Australia, Title on Foreign
Relations (2nd edition 2001), Third
Parties in International Law (OUP 1993); co-author of
Dispute Resolution in Australia (Butterworths 1992, 2nd
edition 2002) (with H. Astor) and The Boundaries of
International Law: A Feminist Analysis (MUP 2000) (with
Hilary Charlesworth). The last was awarded the American
Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit, 2001
for ‘outstanding contribution to scholarship.’ In 2006 she
was also awarded the American Society of International Law’s
Goler T. Butcher Medal ‘for
outstanding contributions to the development or effective
realization of international human rights law’, again with
Hilary Charlesworth. Professor Chinkin has been a
consultant to the Asian Development Bank (and a member of
its External Forum on Gender), the UN Office of the High
Commissioner on Human Rights, the UN Division on the
Advancement of Women, the UN Development Programme and the
OSCE.
Professor in International Law at the London
School of Economics and Political Science and an overseas
affiliated faculty member of the University of Michigan Law
School. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in
2003 and is a member of Matrix Chambers. She has degrees in
law from the Universities of London (LLB and LLM) , Yale (LLM)
and Sydney (PhD). She has held full-time academic posts at
the Universities of Oxford, London, New York Law School, the
National University of Singapore, University of Sydney and
Southampton University and visiting appointments at a number
of places in Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia.
Professor Chinkin's main interests are in public
international law, especially the law of treaties, human
rights, with emphasis on the international protection of
women's rights, and international organisations, and
domestic and international dispute resolution. She is the
author of many articles on issues of international law and
of Halsbury's Laws of Australia, Title on Foreign
Relations (2nd edition 2001), Third
Parties in International Law (OUP 1993); co-author of
Dispute Resolution in Australia (Butterworths 1992, 2nd
edition 2002) (with H. Astor) and The Boundaries of
International Law: A Feminist Analysis (MUP 2000) (with
Hilary Charlesworth). The last was awarded the American
Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit, 2001
for ‘outstanding contribution to scholarship.’ In 2006 she
was also awarded the American Society of International Law’s
Goler T. Butcher Medal ‘