Chimène Keitner

Chimène Keitner is an American-Canadian legal scholar and professor of law. She currently holds the Martin Luther King Jr. Professorship at the University of California, Davis School of Law, where she also serves as the Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair in International Law. She is known for her work in international law, foreign sovereign immunity, and civil litigation.

Early life and career Keitner completed her Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature from Harvard University in 1996. She was a Rhodes Scholar and completed a DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford in 2001. She received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2002.

After completing law school, Keitner served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada. and visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.

From 2016 to 2017, she was the 27th Counsellor on International Law at the United States Department of State, where she advised on matters of international and national security law.

Awards and honors Keitner received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1995.

Personal life In 2003, She married Ram Fish.

Selected publications