Charles C. Jalloh is Professor of International Law and the Richard A. Hausler Chair in Law at the University of Miami Law School and Founder of the Center for International Law and Policy in Africa (CILPA). He previously taught at Florida International University, where he was the first law faculty member to be honored as a Distinguished University Professor, and at the University of Pittsburgh Law School where he started his academic career in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Law. 

He is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC), where he has held several leadership positions. In May 2022, the ILC appointed him a 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 (2018-2019), and the Kleh Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Law at Boston University Law School (2023-2024), he has published widely in the field of international law. Recent books include The International Criminal Court and Africa (Oxford, 2017, with Ilias Bantekas) and the monograph The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Cambridge, 2020). He serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including the American Journal of International Law.

Before academia, Jalloh practiced law at the national and international levels as Counsel in the Canadian Department of Justice and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, a Legal Adviser in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and an Associate Legal Officer in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 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.