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 (2018-20) and Associate Dean, International (2021-23). Prof Jean Allain is, since 2008, Extraordinary Professor with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa; since 2023, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Univesitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia; and since 2025, Rights Lab Visiting Professor of International Law, University of Nottingham where he was previously Leverhulme Visiting Professor (2023-24). 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 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 those latter graduate studies he clerked for the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Prof. 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. 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 that are available on Spotify as podcasts. ------------ 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. Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Humanitarian Law, Slavery, Forced Labour, Law of the Sea, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Legal history, Right to Food, Right to Housing, Right to Health

[2024] Slavery, trafficking, and the law. In: Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking: in the Age of Global Conflict. Altink , H. (ed.). 1st ed. London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, Vol. 5. p. 35-50 16 p. [2026] Guarantees of non-repetition and the future of transboundary harm: lessons flowing from the Montara oil spill. In: Transnational Environmental Law. 15, 1, p. 115-141 27 p.