Dinah Shelton is an American lawyer. She has been a university professor and served as commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights between 2010 and 2013.
She is a professor emeritus of International Law at the George Washington University Law School, has been a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, and a visiting professor at several universities both in the United States and France.[1]
She has written, co-written, or edited at least nineteen books, as weell as authored dozens of book chapters and articles, about human rights and international law.[1]