Christine Chinkin is a professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science at the University of London. She is an internationally respected scholar of public international law, alternative dispute resolution, international criminal law, international human rights, especially women's human rights, and the intersection of feminist jurisprudence and international law. Prof. Chinkin received an LLB with honors from the University of London in 1971; an LLM from the University of London in 1972; a second LLM from Yale University in 1981; and a PhD from the University of Sydney in 1990.

Formerly dean of the law faculty at the University of Southampton and a member of the law faculty at the University of Sydney, she has served as a senior or guest lecturer on international law and international human rights at such universities as the National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University Law School, the International Law Institute of China, the European University Institute, Columbia University, and the University of Southhampton.

She is the co-editor of The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Commentary (OUP, 2012); author of The Making of International Law (OUP, 2007), The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (MUP, 2000), which was awarded the Certificate of Merit of The American Society of International Law, and Third Parties in International Law (OUP, 1993); and coauthor of Dispute Resolution in Australia (Butterworths, 2nd edition, 2002).

Prof. Chinkin is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. In 2006, she was awarded with Hilary Charlesworth the Goler T. Butcher Medal of the American Society of International Law for services to human rights. She is currently a member of the Kosovo Human Rights Advisory Panel.