Professional profile
Charles C. Jalloh is Professor of International Law and the Richard A. Hausler Chair in Law at the University of Miami Law School as of July 2024. The Founder and Executive Director of the Center for International Law and Policy in Africa (CILPA), he was previously Distinguished University Professor of International Law at Florida International University. He is an active member of the International Law Commission (ILC), to which he was twice elected by the UN General Assembly, where his contributions have included serving as Chair of the Drafting Committee in 2018, General Rapporteur in 2019, Second Vice-Chair in 2023, and Chair of the Working Group on Methods of Work and Procedures from 2023 to present. In May 2022, the ILC appointed him Special Rapporteur for the topic Subsidiary Means for the Determination of Rules of International Law.
Formerly a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public International Law at Lund University in Sweden from 2018 to 2019, he has published extensively in the field of international law. His recent works include The International Criminal Court and Africa, edited with Ilias Bantekas and published by Oxford University Press in 2017; the monograph The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020; and articles in the American Journal of International Law. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of Legal Studies and the African Journal of International Criminal Justice. He also sits on the editorial boards of several leading journals in the field, including the American Journal of International Law.
Before entering academia, Dr. Jalloh practised law at the national and international levels as Counsel in the Canadian Department of Justice and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Legal Adviser in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Associate Legal Officer in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He continues to counsel States and regional organisations on issues of international law, including advising on cases before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.
His education includes a B.A. from the University of Guelph, LL.B. and B.C.L. degrees from McGill University, a Master’s in International Human Rights Law, with distinction, from Oxford University, where he was a Chevening Scholar, and a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Amsterdam.