Neha Jain is the Deputy Director of the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Professor of Law at the Pritzker School of Law.

 

Biography

A specialist in international law, criminal law and human rights law, Neha Jain is Professor of Law at the Pritzker School of Law and a Faculty Fellow at the Buffett Institute.  She was recruited to Northwestern in 2023 from the European University Institute, where she served both as Professor of Public International Law and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law. Jain 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. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Graz, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge. 

Jain has served international law societies in a variety of roles, including as a member of the American Society of International Law’s Executive Council and Executive Committee.  She is also former Vice-President of the European Society of International Law and Co-Chair of its Strategic Consultative Panel defining strategic objectives and priorities for the future of the Society.