Jean Allain

Jean Allain is Professor of International Law.

     Prof Allain joined the Faculty of Law of Monash University in 2017 and has since been the Associate Dean, Research, from 2018 to 2020; and Associate Dean, International, from 2021 to 2023.

   He is Leverhulme Visiting Professor at University of Notthingham Rights Lab for the September semesters of 2023 and 2024.

     Prof Jean Allain has been, since 2008, Extraordinary Professor with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa; and has been, since 2023, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Univesitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia. 

     Jean Allain's most recent book is: The Last Waltz of the Law of Nations: A Translation of The 1803 Edition of de Rayneval's The Institutions of Natural Law and the Law of Nations (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Prof Allain received his Doctorate from the Graduate Institute for International Studies, University of Geneva. During his graduate studies he clerked for the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Antonio Cassese. He wrote his Masters thesis at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in Costa Rica, as a Fellow of the Organization of American States; and his Doctorate at the Peace Palace Library in The Hague as a Grotius Research Fellow with the Asser Institute.

     He started his academic career at the American University Cairo, followed by Queen's University, Belfast, before joining Monash University. 

    From 2015-2019, Prof Allain was the Special Adviser to Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest international human rights organisation. From 2017-2021, He also held a concurrent appointment Professor of International Law at the Wilberforce Institute (WISE) at the University of Hull, UK; and from 2017 to 2020,  he was Visiting Professor with the Law School, Beijing Normal University, where he remains at Research Fellow with its Centre for Disaster and Human Rights.

Prof Allain welcomes PhD supervisons in, generally, public international law, and more specificially, international human rights law (including slavery, forced labour, trafficking) the history of international law, international humanitrian law, international criminal law, and Law of the Sea. He would especially welcome students from Asia and the global south.

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