Neha Jain
Professor of Law
Deputy Director of the Northwestern Buffet Institute for Global Affairs
Phone
(312) 503-8426
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
LynToya Pate
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1933
Assistant Email
lyntoya.pate@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Neha Jain is Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Deputy Director of Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. She is also a permanent visiting professor at MOBILE, the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Excellence for Global Mobility Law at the University of Copenhagen. Jain teaches and writes on international law, human rights law, and the law of citizenship and statelessness. She is the author of Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law (2014) and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, and Harvard International Law Journal. Her article “Manufacturing Statelessness” was awarded the 2022 Francis Deák Prize for best article by American Journal of International Law.
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative Law
- Criminal Law
- Human Rights Law
- International Law
Selected Publications
- Manufacturing Statelessness, 116 American Journal of International 237 (2022).
- Separate Judicial Speech, 61 Virginia Journal of International Law 1 (2020) (Co-authored by: Cosette D. Creamer).
- Radical Dissents in International Criminal Trials, 28 European Journal of International Law 1163 (2017).
- Judicial Law-Making and General Principles of Law in International Criminal Law, 57 Harvard International Law Journal 111 (2016).
- Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law: Individual Modes of Responsibility for Collective Crimes (
2014 ).
Education
- D.Phil in Law, University of Oxford
- M. Phil in Law, University of Oxford
- B.C.L., University of Oxford
- B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), National Law School of India University
Prior Appointments
- Faculty Fellow Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, July 2023, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- Professor of Public International Law, 2019-2023, European University Institute,
- Co-Director, Academy of European Law, 2020-Present, European University Institute
- Associate Professor of Law, 2012-2023, University of Minnesota Law School
- Law Research Fellow, 2010-2012, Georgetown University Law Center
- Research Fellow, 2008-2010, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law