Faculty Profile

• PhD in Law, University of Cambridge 2017
• Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law Australia 2011
• LLM in International Economic Law, Universität Augsburg 2010
• BA & LLB (Hons), University of Tasmania 2007
• Attorney and Counselor-at-Law (New York)
• Australian Lawyer

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, Aug 2022 - Present
• Director, Centre for Digital Law, Singapore Management University, 2024 - Present

Previous Appointment:

• Director, Centre for AI & Data Governance, Singapore Management University, Jan 2023-2024

Other Positions

• Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania School of Law (2023—) (previously Adjunct Senior Lecturer 2020-2022 and Adjunct Lecturer 2015-2020)
• Visiting Fellow, ANU School of Law (2022)
• Visiting Fellow, UNSW Faculty of Law (2018)
• Project Lead, Asian Business Law Institute project “15 Legal Issues for Cryptoassets” (May 2022—)
• Co-Chair, Cambridge Digital Asset Program “Emerging Money Systems” Working Group, Cambridge JBS Centre for Alternative Finance (2022-2023)
• Working Group Member, UNIDROIT Project LXXXII on digital assets in private law (2020-2023)
• Working Group Member, UNIDROIT Project LXXVI on best practices of effective enforcement (2020-2023)
• Research Affiliate, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (2019—)
• Member, Oxford Digital Asset Group (2018—)
• Senior Research Fellow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Centre for British Studies (2020-2022)
• Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London Centre for Commercial Law Studies (0.25 FTE project-based appointment as named Co-Investigator) (2019-2020)
• Senior Fellow, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (2019)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin Centre for British Studies (2017-2019)
• Judicial Assistant to the Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales (2016-2017)

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Law and emerging technology
• Constitutional and administrative law
• Comparative law
• Concepts of property
• Legal theory
• Monetary law
• Law and finance

Current Projects

• AI Singapore Award No.: AISG3-GV-2023-010G "Toward Developing Trustworthy and Responsible Large Language Models for Solving Singapore-specific Governance Issues".  Award: SGD 500,000 over 36 months from March 2024 as Joint Principal Investigator with Assistant Professor Soujanya PORIA, Assistant Professor Roy LEE, and Dr Ilya FARBER. Administering institutions: Singapore University of Technology and Design, A*STAR Institute of High-Performance Computing and Singapore Management University.
   
• Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Award No.: 23-SOL-SMU-004 "Operationalising Responsible AI (RAI) in Public Administration" (Tier 1, Category C). Award: SGD 250,000 over 24 months from 1 December 2023 as Joint Principal Investigator with Professor David LO. Administering Institution: Singapore Management University.

Previous Projects

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant Ref. No. GZ: AL 2415/1-1 | DA 579/7-1: "F.A. Mann and his Contribution to the Development of English, German, European, and International Law". Award: EUR 620,000 over 36 months from January 2020 as Joint Principal Investigator with Professor Gerhard DANNEMANN. Grant to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Centre for British Studies. See https://fam.iuscomp.org
   
• UK Economic and Social Research Council Sub-Grant RM02 for project "Legal and Economic Conceptions of Money" under Main Grant ES/R00787X/1 to "Rebuilding Macroeconomics" Award: GBP 60,000 fEC over 12 months from September 2019 as Co-Investigator under Principal Investigator Professor Rosa LASTRA. Administered by QMUL Centre for Commercial Law Studies and NIESR, London, https://www.rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk/legal-and-economic

Selected Publications

• J.G. Allen and Martin Liao, "Digital Economy Innovation in the Indo-Pacific: Towards a ‘Singapore Effect’?" (2025) Journal of World Investment and Trade (forthcoming)
• Wenxi Zhang, Sharanya Shanmugam and Jason Grant Allen, "Beyond Consent: Singapore’s Hybrid Approach to Data Governance in Smart Cities" (2025) International Data Privacy Law (forthcoming)
• Jason Grant Allen, "Abracadabra: Law, Language and Agency in the Digital Society" (2025) Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law (forthcoming)
• Jason Grant Allen, Jane Loo, and Jose Campoverde, "Governing Intelligence: Singapore’s Evolving Approach to AI Governance" (2024) 1 Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance e12-e22
• Jason Grant Allen and Gerhard Dannemann (eds.), FA Mann: The Lawyer and His Legacy (Oxford University Press 2024)
• Tully Rector and J.G. Allen, "The Political Ontology of Bitcoin" (2023) 47(3) Cambridge Journal of Economics 535-554
• J.G. Allen, "The Concept of Office in Processes of Constitutional Development" in Asanga Welikala, Tom Daly, and Dinesha Samararatne (eds.), Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance: Comparing Uneven Pathways of Constitutional Development in Asia and Africa (Oxford University Press 2023)
• R.M. Lastra and J.G. Allen, "Lex Cryptographia Financiera" in Sir William Blair, Chiara Zilioli and Christos Gortsos (eds.), International Monetary and Banking Law in the post COVID-19 World (Oxford University Press 2023)
• Christian von Bar (Jason Grant Allen trans.), Foundations of Property Law: Things as Objects of Property Rights (Oxford University Press 2023)
• Jason Grant Allen, Non-Statutory Executive Powers and Judicial Review (Cambridge University Press 2022)
• Irish H-Y Chiu and Jason Grant Allen, “Exploring the Assetisation and Financialisation of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Opportunities and Regulatory Implications” (2022) 37(3) Banking and Finance Law Review 401
• Jason Grant Allen and Peter Hunn, Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press 2022)
• Jason Grant Allen, “Agency and Liability” in Charles Kerrigan (ed.), Artificial Intelligence: Law and Regulation (Edward Elgar 2022) (updated as Jason Grant Allen and Florian Gamper, "Agency and Liability" in Charles Kerrigan (ed.), Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation (2nd Edition, forthcoming with Edward Elgar 2025)
• Will Bateman and Jason Grant Allen, The Law of Central Bank Reserve Creation (2021) Modern Law Review (early view https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12688)
• Jason Grant Allen, Bodies Without Organs: Law, Economics, and Decentralised Governance (2021) 4(1) Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy 53-78
• Jason Grant Allen, “Law’s Virtual Empires: Law and Games in 21^st Century Jurisprudence” in Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora and Gonzalo Villa (eds.), Conceptual Jurisprudence Methodological Issues, Classical Questions and New Approaches (Springer 2021)
• Jason Grant Allen, “Cryptoassets in Private Law” in Iris H-Y Chiu and Gudula Deipenbrock (eds.), Routledge Handbook on FinTech and Law: Regulatory, Supervisory, Policy and other Legal Challenges (Routledge 2021)
• Jason Grant Allen and Rosa Maria Lastra, Border Problems: Mapping the Third Border (2020) 83(3) Modern Law Review 505-538