Alain Bauer (born 8 May 1962) is a French criminologist who has been a professor of criminology at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM Paris) since 2009.

He is also a senior research fellow at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (New York) and the China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing).

list, a socialist organisation,[3][better source needed] he was the youngest vice president of the Sorbonne in charge of Finances and Administration, an office he held from 1982 to 1989.

[4] Bauer was elected Professor of Criminology at the National Conservatory for Arts and Crafts under CNAM in Paris in 2010.

[6] He defends his doctoral thesis in law: Crime and criminology: a legal, political and social archaeology, under the supervision of Christian Vallar, on December 14, 2016 at the University of Côte d'Azur.