INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM
Workshop
Professor Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics and Political Science, Matrix Chambers
“The UN Human Rights Council High Level Fact Finding Mission to Beit Hanoun”
January 7, 2009
12:30pm-2:00pm
Flavelle House (Room FLA)
Christine Chinkin is Professor in International Law at London School of Economics. She is also an overseas affiliated faculty member of the University of Michigan Law School. Professor Chinkin’s main interests are in public international law, especially the law of treaties, human rights, with emphasis on the protection of women's rights, and domestic and international dispute resolution.
Her publications include Halsbury's Laws of Australia, Title on Foreign Relations (2nd edition, 2001), Third Parties in International Law (1993) and Dispute Resolution in Australia (co-author, 2nd edition 2002). Her award-winning work (with H. Charlesworth and S. Wright) ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’ was published in the American Journal of International Law and led to a book-length treatment of this subject, The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (2000) co-authored with Hilary Charlesworth.
Christine is a on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law. She has been a consultant on Public International Law to the Asian Development Bank and a member of its External Forum on Gender, and on human trafficking to the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights. She advises a number of non-governmental organisations on gender and human rights issues.
A light lunch will be served
Please RSVP to
Kara Norrington at kara.norrington@utoronto.ca
