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 AI & Data Governance, Singapore Management University, Jan 2023-Present

Other Positions

• Founder Partner, Stirling & Rose, an incorporated legal practice in Australia
• Project Lead, Asian Business Law Institute project “15 Legal Issues for Cryptoassets” (May 2022—)
• Editorial Board Member, Journal for the Australian and New Zealand Societies of Computers and the Law (July 2022—)
• Co-Chair, Cambridge Digital Asset Program “Emerging Money Systems” Working Group, Cambridge JBS Centre for Alternative Finance (2022—)
• Working Group Member, UNIDROIT Project LXXXII on digital assets in private law (2020—)
• Working Group Member, UNIDROIT Project LXXVI on best practices of effective enforcement (2020—)
• Working Group Member, UNCITRAL digital economy project expert working group on artificial intelligence and automation in contracting (2020—)
• 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 (Jan 2020-March 2022)
• Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London Centre for Commercial Law Studies (0.25 FTE project-based appointment as named Co-Investigator) (2019 to 2020)
• Senior Fellow, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (September to December 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 of property
• Legal theory
• Monetary law
• Law and finance

Current Projects

• The Impact of FA Mann on English, German, European and International Law (Joint Principal Investigator with Professor Gerhard Dannemann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Centre for British Studies, Jan 2020-June 2023

Selected Publications

• 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)
• 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