Chimène Keitner

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 Law School, 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 services, 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.