Baine Kerr is a PhD Candidate at Utrecht University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, as well as a juris doctor from UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, United States. He also obtained an LL.M degree in Public International Law (cum laude) from Utrecht University.

Baine is researching climate pollution caused by international shipping, focusing on the legal duties to prevent and control it under international law. His interests also include carbon markets and aviation's climate impacts. Baine is supervised by prof. Seline Trevisanut and asst. prof. Natalie Dobson, and he is a member of the Utrecht Center for Water, Oceans, and Sustainability Law, and the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea. In the fall of 2022 Baine was a visiting researcher at Oxford University Faculty of Law. 

Before coming to Utrecht University, Baine was a Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, where he represented state agencies and officials in coastal, environmental, and land use disputes. He is licensed to practice law in California, and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.