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Faculty Profile

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Jason Grant ALLEN

Full-time Faculty

Associate Professor of Law; Director, Centre for Digital Law (CDL); Lee Kong Chian Fellow

Yong Pung How School of Law YPHSL
  • 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

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Research Areas and Areas of Expertise

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Highlights
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H-Index (All Time)
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Jason Grant Allen is a leading legal scholar specializing in the intersection of law, economics, and emerging technologies, with significant contributions to digital assets, AI governance, and comparative law.

Bridges doctrinal legal analysis with practical regulatory and policy impact in digital law, fintech, and AI governance; provides thought leadership and executive education to international organizations, central banks, and government agencies; recognized for advancing legal harmonization and comparative law in emerging technology domains; prolific in both academic and policy-oriented outputs.

Focused research areas include Legal frameworks for digital assets and cryptocurrencies; AI governance and responsible AI in public administration; law and technology in smart cities; comparative approaches to monetary and property law; legal theory at the intersection of law, economics, and technology; regulatory responses to fintech and decentralised finance.
Areas of Expertise
Law and economicsEmerging technologyDigital assetsArtificial intelligence and lawData governanceMonetary lawComparative lawCryptoassetsDecentralised financeProperty law
This highlights are AI-generated content using the faculty's CV.
  • 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