[3] The head of the commission Richard Goldstone subsequently changed his mind, but three other commission members (including Chinkin) continued to insist on the correctness of their conclusions despite the fact that "no domestic investigations at all have been started into any of the allegations of international crimes committed by members of Palestinian armed groups in Gaza".

[4][5] From January 2010, she is a member of the Human Rights Advisory Panel[6] of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

Chinkin studied law at Queen Mary University of London, earning an LLB with honors in 1971 and an LLM in 1972.

She later received a second LLM from the Yale Law School in 1981 and completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1990.

[8] Christine Chinkin was scientific advisor to the Council of Europe Committee that drafted the Istanbul Convention.