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Chimène Keitner

Chimène Keitner is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California Davis School of Law. Her expertise spans the fields of international law, international civil litigation, national security law, and emerging issues in cyberlaw. She served as the 27th Counselor on International Law at the U.S. Department of State, and serves as an Adviser on Sovereign Immunity for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. She has also served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and as founding co-chair of the International Law Association’s Study Group on Individual Responsibility in International Law. Chimène holds an A.B. in History & Literature from Harvard, a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. She is also on LinkedIn.

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Mo Brooks talks at a podium with the sign “Save America” and gestures into the air. American flags stand on either side of him. He wears a red hat that says, “Fire Pelosi”
Bristish and US envoys to Libyan rebels Christopher Prentice and Chris Stevens attend a press conference of Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil (not pictured) after his meeting with African head of states, in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi, on April 11, 2011. A reporter with a camera sits behind them.
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People without face masks protest the stay at home orders designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus and keep people healthy. They hold signs encouraging people to demand that businesses be allowed to open up, and people allowed to go back to work, at the Country Club Plaza on April 20, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri. They also wave American flags and stand very close together ignoring social distancing standards.
Gavel and stethoscope
Families sit and lie in overcrowded cells without privacy. Many individuals huddle in thin metallic emergency blankets as bedding. Barbed wire fencing serves as walls.
Honduran father Juan and his six-year-old son Anthony walk on their way to attend Sunday Mass on September 9, 2018 in Oakland, California. They fled their country and crossed the U.S. border at a lawful port of entry in Brownsville, Texas seeking asylum. They were soon separated and spent the next 85 days apart in detention. Juan was sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma, while his son was sent to a detention shelter New York. Juan said it took six weeks from the time of separation until he was able to make a phone call to his son.
Members of the jury sit in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, The Netherlands, on January 27, 2014 during the judgment on the territorial dispute between Chile and Peru.
Supreme Court Building
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