Christine Mary Chinkin (born 1949) is a

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and founding Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the

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and the William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the

University of Michigan Law School The University of Michigan Law School (branded as Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparati ...

Biography

Chinkin studied law at

Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University ...

, earning an LLB with honors in 1971 and an LLM in 1972. She later received a second LLM from the

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

in 1981 and completed her PhD at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

in 1990. She has served on the law faculty at the

and as dean of the law faculty at the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

. She was a member of the four-person

United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report, was a United Nations fact-finding mission established in April 2009 pursuant to Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Cou ...

created by the

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. The commission's Report accused Israel of intentionally targeting civilians, which caused great outrage in Israel. The head of the commission

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subsequently changed his mind, but three other commission members (including Chinkin) continued to insist on the correctness of their conclusions despite the fact that "no domestic investigations at all have been started into any of the allegations of international crimes committed by members of Palestinian armed groups in Gaza". From January 2010, she is a member of the Human Rights Advisory Panel of the

United Nations Mission in Kosovo The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Привремена административна мисија Уједињених нација на Косову, Privremena administrativna misija Ujedinjenih na ...

. She is the Chair of the International Law Association, appointed in 2021. She was appointed

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(CMG) in the

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for services to advancing women's human rights worldwide. Christine Chinkin was scientific advisor to the Council of Europe Committee that drafted the Istanbul Convention. She is currently a member of the steering board of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative of the UK Government, and specialist advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Works

As author

* ''Dispute Resolution in Australia'', co-authored with Hilary Astor, Butterworths, 1992 * ''The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis'', co-authored with

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, Manchester University Press, 2000 * ''The Making of International Law'', co-authored with Alan Boyle, Oxford University Press, 2007 * ''International Law and New Wars'', co-authored with Mary Kaldor, Cambridge University Press, 2017

As editor

* ''Sovereignty, Statehood and State Responsibility: Essays in Honour of James Crawford'', co-edited with Freya Baetens, Cambridge University Press, 2015

Awards

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Living people Alumni of the University of London Yale Law School alumni University of Sydney alumni International law scholars Academic staff of the University of Sydney Academics of the University of Southampton Academics of the London School of Economics Fellows of the British Academy University of Michigan Law School faculty Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Year of birth missing (living people) British women non-fiction writers {{academic-bio-stub