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. In 2023 and in 2024, he was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Nottingham.

     Prof Jean Allain is, since 2008, Extraordinary Professor with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa; and, since 2023, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Univesitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia; and since 2025 Rights Lab Visiting Professor of International Law, University of Nottingham. 

    He received his Doctorate from the Graduate Institute for International Studies, University of Geneva.

   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 from the Graduate Institute for International Studies (HEI) University of Geneva, undertaking research at the Peace Palace Library in The Hague as a Grotius Research Fellow with the Asser Institute. During these latter graduate studies he clerked for the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Antonio Cassese. 

    Dr Allain 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 as Professor of International Law at the Wilberforce Institute (WISE) at the University of Hull, UK. 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.  While a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Rights Lab, University of Notthingham, he delivered Leverhulme Lectures on the evolution of the early international anti-trafficking framework  which are available on Spotify as podcasts.

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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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