International Women's Day talk - Professor Chrstine Chinkin, LSE
Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
- 03 Mar 2014
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights and the MA in Women's Studies, UCC
Lunchtime seminar on March 6th to mark International Women's Day
'The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence - the 'Istanbul Convention'.
Discussant: Dr Louise Crowley, Faculty of Law, University College Cork
Date:March 6th
Time 1-2.30pm,
Venue: Moot Court Room, Aras na Laoi (first floor),
Law Faculty,
Gaol Cross,
University College Cork
ALL WELCOME
Bio: Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the LSE and a barrister, a member of Matrix Chambers. Together with H. Charlesworth, she won the American Society of International Law, 2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal 'for outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law'. She is an Overseas Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Michigan and has been a Scholar in Residence for Amnesty International (2005), as well as Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2004) and at the Arts and Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2003). Professor Chinkin is a member of the Kosovo Human Rights Advisory Panel (appointed 2010) and was a scientific expert to the Council of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women (leading to the drafting and adoption of the Istanbul Convention.) She has published widely in the fields of gender and human rights law, and public international law. Recent publications include:
- (with Mary Kaldor) 'Gender and New Wars' Journal of International Affairs, 67 (1) (2013) pp.167-190; The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women : A Commentary (M. Freeman, C. Chinkin and B. Rudolf, eds) (Oxford, OUP, 2012) (This is the first comprehensive commentary on the CEDAW Convention); The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (with H. Charlesworth), (Manchester University Press, 2000), 414pp. (Translated into Japanese, 2004).
We are not offering CPD points for this event.
