Prof Bernard Jackson

Biography

A full publication list is available here: http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/lib_biblioBSJ1.html 

• LL.B. (Liverpool), D.Phil. (Oxon.), LL.D. (Edinburgh), D.H.L. h.c. (Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati), Utter Barrister (Gray's Inn);
• Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies;
• Joined the University of Manchester in 1997.

Further information

Supervision areas:

My successful PhD students have written theses on, inter alia, Seriousness of Offence in Biblical Law, Judicial Deviation in the Talmud, Medieval Responsa on Restitution and Decision-Making in the Crown Prosecution Service.

Additional academic activities:

I have established an Agunah Research Unit at Manchester.

Additional information:

Research Grants:

• Social Science Research Council, Personal Research Award, 1981;
• BritishAcademy Research Grant, 1983;
• British Council Research Grant, 1984;
• Leverhulme Research Grant, 1986-87;
• Merseyside Police, 1990-91;
• Hanadiv Foundation (for Agunah Research Unit), 2004-05;
• Leverhulme Trust (for Agunah Research Unit), 2005-08.
• British Academy Research Small Grant (for Agunah Research Unit), 2008.

Consultancies:

• Executive Committee, The Jewish Law Association, 1978-1992, 2004-;
• Secretary-General and Treasurer, International Association for the Semiotics of Law, 1987-93;
• Management Committee, U.K. Law Technology Centre, 1989-92;
• Chairman, BILETA Inquiry into Computer Provision in U.K. Law Schools, 1989-91;
• Northern Circuit Committee on Computer Support for Litigation, 1991;
• Lord Chancellor's Area Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, 1992;
• Committee, Society for Computers and Law, Liverpool Branch, 1993-96;
• Editorial Board, Archivos Latinoamericanos de Metodologia y Filosofia del Derecho, Venezuela. 1988- ;
• Advisory Board, Center for Semiotic Research in Law, Government and Economics, PennsylvaniaStateUniversity, 1990;
• Conseil d'administration, Association Européenne pour la philosophie du droit. 1990-2000;