John Jackson

Contact

• workRoom C55 Law and Social Sciences Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 9515723
• J.Jackson@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

John Jackson is Professor of Comparative Criminal Law & Procedure at the School of Law and is a qualified barrister. He was previously Dean of the School of Law at University College Dublin from 2008-2011 and before that he was Professor of Public Law at Queen's University Belfast from 1995 - 2008. He has also taught at University College Cardiff, the City University , London and the University of Sheffield . He has held visiting professorships at Hastings College of the Law, University of California and the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in 2007 - 2008. From 1998 to 2000 he was an Independent Assessor for the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Review and since 2008 he has been a Parole Commissioner for Northern Ireland. .

Expertise Summary

John Jackson's research fields lie in the areas of Criminal Evidence and Criminal Justice. He has a particular interest in empirical and policy research and is the author of a number of books, articles and research reports in these areas including Judge without Jury: Diplock Trials within the Adversary System (OUP, 1995)(with Sean Doran), Solicitor Advocates in Scotland: The Impact of Clients (HMSO, 2000)(with G. Hanlon), Legislating Against Silence (NIO, 2000)(with Martin Wolfe and Katie Quinn) and The Detention and Questioning of Young Persons by the Police in Northern Ireland (2003)(with Katie Quinn).

In recent years he has taken a comparative and international approach to evidence and criminal justice. He has published (with Barry Hancock), Standards for Prosecutions: An Analysis of the National Prosecuting Agencies in the United Kingdom (IAP, 2006) and in Ireland, New South Wales, The Netherlands and Denmark (2008). His most recent book co-authored with Sarah Summers is The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence: beyond the Common Law and Civil law traditions (CUP, 2012).

He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including the Criminal Law Review and the International Journal of Evidence & Proof and is the UK and Europe Editor of the International Commentary on Evidence.

Recent Publications

• JOHN D JACKSON and SARAH J SUMMERS, 2012. The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence: Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions Cambridge University Press.
• 2012. In: PAUL ROBERTS and JILL HUNTER, eds., Criminal Evidence and Human Rights Reimagining Procedural Traditions 119 - 143 (In Press.)
• 2009. Reconceptualising the Right of Silence as an Effective Fair Trial Standard International and Comparative Legal Quarterly. 58, 835 - 861
• JACKSON, J., 2009. Finding the best epistemic fit for international criminal tribunals: beyond the adversarial–inquisitorial dichotomy Journal of International Criminal Justice. 7(1), 17-39

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PhD Supervision

I am interested in supervising students who want to work on the following areas:

• Criminal evidence, in many aspects of human rights relating to criminal justice and in international and comparative criminal procedure.

Current PhD Students

• Ivan-Cucu, Mihaela: Common criminal designs and the path to individual accountability -the need for a normative approach in the culture of International Criminal Law
• Purshouse, Joe: Privacy, Procedural Fairness and Human Rights: To what extent can privacy be considered a right for those subjected to the criminal justice process? (co-supervised with Professor Paul Roberts)

• JOHN D JACKSON and SARAH J SUMMERS, 2012. The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence: Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions Cambridge University Press.
• 2012. In: PAUL ROBERTS and JILL HUNTER, eds., Criminal Evidence and Human Rights Reimagining Procedural Traditions 119 - 143 (In Press.)
• 2009. Reconceptualising the Right of Silence as an Effective Fair Trial Standard International and Comparative Legal Quarterly. 58, 835 - 861
• JACKSON, J., 2009. Finding the best epistemic fit for international criminal tribunals: beyond the adversarial–inquisitorial dichotomy Journal of International Criminal Justice. 7(1), 17-39
• 2009. Many Years On in Northern Ireland: the Diplock Legacy Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 60(213 - 229),
• BARRY HANCOCK and JOHN JACKSON, 2009. Standards for Prosecutors: An Analysis of the National Prosecuting Agencies in Ireland, New South Wales (Australia), The Netherlands and Denmark International Association of Prosedutors.
• JACKSON, J., 2008. Police and prosecutors after PACE: the road from case construction to case disposal. In: CAPE, E. and YOUNG, R., eds., Regulating policing: the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 past, present, and future Hart.
• JOHN JACKSON, MAXIMO LANGER and PETER TILLERS, eds., 2008. Crime, Procedure and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context Hart Publishing.
• JOHN JACKSON and MAXIMO LANGER, 2008. Damaska and Comparative Law. In: JOHN JACKSON, MAXIMO LANGER and PETER TILLERS, eds., Crime, Procedure and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context: Essays in Honour of Professor M irjan Damaska 1 - 27