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Chimène
Keitner

Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International Law

  • Office 322-200
  • Email Address keitnerc@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 565-4780
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Biography

Professor Chimène Keitner 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. She has authored two books and dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters on questions surrounding the relationship among law, communities, and borders, including issues of jurisdiction, extraterritoriality, foreign sovereign and foreign official immunity, and the historical understandings underpinning current practice in these areas.

Professor Keitner holds a bachelor’s degree in history and literature with high honors from Harvard, a JD from Yale, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Among other professional service, Professor Keitner has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law 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.

 

Expertise

  • Civil Procedure
  • Cyberlaw
  • Evidence
  • International Law
  • Law & Digital Technology

Education

  1. Yale Law School 2002

    J.D., Law

  2. Oxford University, St. Antony's College 2001

    D.Phil, International Relations

  3. Oxford University. New College 1998

    M.Phil, International Relations

  4. Harvard University 1996

    A.B. (Magna Cum Laude), History & Literature

Accomplishments

Selected Scholarship

  1. A Roadmap for Foreign Official Immunity Cases in US Courts 2021

    90 Fordham L. Rev. 677

  2. Prosecuting Foreign States 2021

    61 Va. J. Int'l L. 221

  3. Categorizing Acts by State Officials: Attribution and Responsibility in the Law of Foreign Official Immunity, 2016

    26 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 451

  4. Transnational Human Rights Litigation: Jurisdiction and Immunities 2013

    Dinah Shelton ed., The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press)

  5. The Forgotten History of Foreign Official Immunity 2012

    87 New York University Law Review 704

  6. Rights Beyond Borders 2011

    36 Yale Journal of International Law 55

  7. Conceptualizing Complicity in Alien Tort Cases 2008

    60 Hastings L.J. 61

  8. Victim or Vamp? Images of Violent Women in the Criminal Justice System 2006

    11 Colum. J. Gender & L. 38

Courses

  1. International Law
  2. Democracy, Technology and Security
  3. Evidence
  4. Civil Litigation Across Borders
  5. Civil Procedure I

Links

  1. Publications
  2. Law Review Articles on SSRN
  3. Personal Website
  4. Selected Works on BePress
  5. Academia.edu

Related News

Faculty Achievements: Fall 2021

11/28/21

Faculty Achievements: Summer 2021

10/09/21
Keitner on BBC

Chimène Keitner: “Don’t Bother Suing China for Coronavirus”

04/23/20
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Research Dean’s December 2019/January 2020 Roundup of Scholarly Activities

03/01/20
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