Professor Christine Chinkin CMG

Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the LSE and a barrister, a member of Matrix Chambers. Together with H. Charlesworth, she won the American Society of International Law, 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal ‘for outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law’. She is an Overseas Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Michigan and has been a Scholar in Residence for Amnesty International (2005), as well as Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2004) and at the Arts and Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2003). In June 2017, Christine Chinkin was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to advancing women’s human rights worldwide.