Christopher Whelan is Barrister at 3PB, a Visiting Professor at Washington & Lee University, a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK.

He was formerly Associate Director of International Law Programmes and Member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. He has taught and visited at the University of Warwick in the UK, the Universities of California at Berkeley, Texas at Austin, South Carolina, Ohio State and, since 1995, Washington & Lee in the United States, and Bucerius Law School in Germany.