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Chimène Keitner | |
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| Citizenship | American-Canadian |
| Occupation | Legal Scholar |
| Notable work | The Paradoxes of Nationalism |
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 recognized for her scholarship in international law, foreign sovereign immunity, and civil litigation.[1][2] In 2003, She married Ram Fish.[3]
Early Life and Career
[edit]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. She was also a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.[4][5]
After completing law school, Keitner served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada. She has held faculty positions at several law schools in the United States, including a regular appointment at UC Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco), and visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.[6][7]
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.
Academic work
[edit]Keitner's research focuses on International law, transnational litigation, national security law, and foreign sovereign immunity. The U.S. courts and the Supreme Court of the United States have cited her work. She is the author and co-author of several academic books and articles.
- International Law (8th ed., 2023, co-authored with Allen S. Weiner and Duncan B. Hollis)[8]
- International Law Frameworks (6th ed., 2025)[9]
- The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and Its Meaning for Contemporary Nation Building (2007)[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Kachagina, Viktoria (2023-06-27). "Chimène Keitner | School of Law". law.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
- ^ Kachagina, Viktoria (2024-07-03). "Faculty Feature: Professor Chimène Keitner | School of Law". law.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
- ^ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Chimène Keitner, Ram Fish (Published 2003)". 2003-09-14. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
- ^ "Chimene Keitner Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
- ^ "Chimene Keitner". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
- ^ "Chimène Keitner". Transnational Litigation Blog. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
- ^ "Why are Israel's leaders worried about international courts? Chimène Keitner Statement". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
- ^ Weiner, Allen S.; Hollis, Duncan B.; Keitner, Chimène (2023-06-10). International Law. Aspen Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5438-4032-2.
- ^ Bederman, David J.; Keitner, Chimène Ilona Robbins (2016). International Law Frameworks. Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1-63459-293-2.
- ^ Keitner, Chimene I. (2008-01-03). The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and Its Meaning for Contemporary Nation Building. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-6958-3.