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 Roberta 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 is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law and was previously a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of International Law. She has held several leadership positions and governance roles in international law associations. She is a former member of the American Society of International Law’s Executive Council and Executive Committee. She has also served as former Vice-President of the European Society of International Law and Co-Chair of its Strategic Consultative Panel defining strategic objectives for the future of the Society.
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