School of Law

Staff

Biography
John Jackson graduated in law from the University of Durham in 1976 and completed an LLM at the University of Wales in 1980. He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1977 and to the English Bar in 1985. He was appointed Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast in 1980, became Reader in Law in 1990 and Professor of Public Law in 1995. He has taught in a number of law schools apart from Queen's including University College Cardiff, the City University London and the University of Sheffield where he was Reader in Law in 1993 and 1994. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Hastings College of the Law, University of California in 2000 and at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales in 2007. From 1998-2000 he was an independent assessor on the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Review which was established under the Belfast Agreement to review the Northern Ireland criminal justice system. He is currently a Life Sentence Review Commissioner for Northern Ireland. He is presently the recipient of a British Academy Two Year Research Leave Fellowship (from 2006 – 2008) studying the development of international norms in evidence law.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• MSSc Criminology and Criminal Justice/Criminal Justice Management/Criminal Justice and Human Rights
  
• Criminal Process and Procedure

  
  Undergraduate

• Evidence
  
• Criminal Process

Research
Evidence, Comparative Criminal Procedure and Human Rights.

Selected Publications

Judge without Jury: Diplock Trials in the Adversary System (1995, with Sean Doran) Oxford: Clarendon

The Judicial Role in Criminal Proceedings (2000, edited with Sean Doran) Oxford: Hart

"Silence and Proof: Extending the Boundaries of Criminal Procedure in the UK" (2001) 5 International Journal of Evidence and Proof 145

“Making Juries Accountable” (2002) 50 American Journal of Comparative Law 477

“The Effect of Human Rights on Criminal Evidentiary Processes: Towards Convergence, Divergence or Realignment” (2005) 68 Modern Law Review 737

“Lay Adjudication and Human Rights in Europe” (2006-2007) 13 Columbia Journal of European Law 83 (with Nikolay Kovalev)

Administration
Head of School of Law 1997-2000
Director, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice 1999-2006