Biography
Professor Chimène Keitner is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California Davis School of Law. She is a leading authority on international law and civil litigation and served as the 27th counselor on international law in the U.S. Department of State. Chimène has authored two books and dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters on questions surrounding the relationships among law, communities, and borders. Her work has focused on a range of issues including jurisdiction, extraterritoriality, foreign sovereign and foreign official immunity, and the historical understandings underpinning current practice in these areas. Among other professional service, Chimène has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and as co-chair of the ASIL International Law in Domestic Courts Interest Group. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an adviser on the ALI’s Fourth Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. She is also a founding co-chair of the International Law Association’s Study Group on Individual Responsibility in International Law. Professor Keitner received a J.D. from Yale Law School, both a D.Phil. and M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, and an A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard University.
