National Law School of India University, B.A., LL.B.
Oxford University, B.C.L., D.Phil.
Associate Professor Neha Jain joined the Law School in the summer of 2012 from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a law research fellow since 2010. Her scholarship focuses on public international law, criminal law, legal theory, and comparative law. Previously, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany (2008-10), and she is a member of its comparative criminal law project.
Professor Jain received her B.A., LL.B. (hons.) from the National Law School of India University, graduating at the top of her class. She completed her B.C.L. and D.Phil. in law from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes scholar and Jowett Senior Scholar at Balliol College. While at Oxford, she was a tutor in constitutional law and editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.
Professor Jain served as a law clerk to former Chief Justice V.N. Khare of the Supreme Court of India and has interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and with the Legal and Treaties Division of India's Ministry of External Affairs.
Preserving the Rule of Law in the Age of Terror, in Proceedings of the First International Humanitarian Law Dialogs: August 29, 2007 at the Chautauqua Institution 67 (Elizabeth Andersen & David M. Crane, eds., American Society of International Law, 2008) (Studies in Transnational Legal Policy; no. 39) (with Robert Petit)
Journal Articles
The Control Theory of Perpetration in International Criminal Law, 12 Chicago Journal of International Law 159 (2011)
Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Prosecution and Reconciliation: The Khmer Rouge Trials and the Promise of International Criminal Justice, 20 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 247 (2010)
Introductory Note to Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Co-Prosecutors' Notice of Appeal against the Judgement of the Trial Chamber in the Case of Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, 49 International Legal Materials 1683 (2010)
Exploring Critical Issues in Religious Genocide: Case Studies of Violence in Tibet, Iraq and Gujarat, 40 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 163 (2008) (with Robert Petit & Stuart Ford)
A Separate Law for Peacekeepers: The Clash between the Security Council and the International Criminal Court, 16 European Journal of International Law 239 (2005)
