Jean Allain

Rights Lab Visiting Leverhulme Professor

Email: llaja1@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk

Professor Jean Allain is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Rights Lab for 2023 and 2024, working as part of the Rights Lab's Law and Policy Programme. He also is Professor of International Law and Associate Dean International at Monash University, Extraordinary Professor with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and Adjunct Professor with the Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. His books include The Law and Slavery; The Legal Understanding of Slavery; and Slavery in International Law. He led work to design the Bellagio Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery, which has brought legal clarity with regard to the interpretation of the definition of slavery in international law. His Leverhulme Visiting Professorship focuses on the evolution of the international anti-trafficking framework, and on working collaboratively with early-career researchers in the UK on their own projects.