Neha Jain
Neha Jain is Professor of Law at the Pritzker School of Law and Deputy Director of Northwestern University's Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. She was recruited to Northwestern in 2023 from the University of Minnesota Law School and 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 was 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. Jain is a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and European Journal of International Law.
Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan women’s hard-won progress toward gender equality. Through dozens of decrees, policies, and statements, it has targeted the autonomy and rights of women and girls, barring them from public life and severely restricting their basic freedoms. Yet, Afghan women have refused to accept their political, social,…
April 27, 2020
Neha Jain
Mary Ellen O’Connell’s sweepingly ambitious The Art of Law in the International Community is fueled by a sense of urgency: in a world facing a “‘piecemeal’ World War III’, (p. 15), international law, which was intended as a tool to save mankind from itself, is itself in a state of crisis.
April 27, 2020
Neha Jain
Mary Ellen O’Connell’s sweepingly ambitious The Art of Law in the International Community is fueled by a sense of urgency: in a world facing a “‘piecemeal’ World War III’, (p. 15), international law, which was intended as a tool to save mankind from itself, is itself in a state of crisis.
Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan women’s hard-won progress toward gender equality. Through dozens of decrees, policies, and statements, it has targeted the autonomy and rights of women and girls, barring them from public life and severely restricting their basic freedoms. Yet, Afghan women have refused to accept their political, social,…