- Bernard Jackson
Bernard Jackson is a former law professor, and since 1997 has been Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the
University of Manchester , where he is Co-Director of the [http://www.mucjs.org Centre for Jewish Studies] . His major academic interests are legal theory,semiotics , and Jewish law. As the university states in its website: Major Publications include: "Theft in Early Jewish Law" (1972); "Essays in Jewish and Comparative Legal History" (1975); "Semiotics and Legal Theory" (1985); "Making Sense in Law" (1996)....Jackson was the founding editor of "The Jewish Law Annual", 1978-97; and (with others) has published of "An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
Jackson works with colleagues in the
Mishpat Ivri movement yet he criticizes the dominant approach based onlegal positivism and has been an active participant in [http://www.mucjs.org/JLASThe Jewish Law Association] .Jackson is a highly prolific author.
elected works
For Bernard Jackson's career and research interests, see [http://publications.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/SchProfile.aspx?strLocalStaffID=4104&strLocalSource=SSL&strSchoolID=AHC&strUnitID=REL_THEOL his web page at the University of Manchester] .
For a full bibliography for Bernard Jackson (more than 170 articles), see http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/lib_biblioBSJ1.html) and the following sole author writings:
*"Theft in Early Jewish Law", Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1972
*"Essays in Jewish and Comparative Legal History", Leiden, E. J Brill, 1975
*"Semiotics and Legal Theory", London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985; paperback ed. 1987, reprinted Deborah Charles Publications 1997
*"Law, Fact and Narrative Coherence", Merseyside, Deborah Charles Publications, 1988; paperback ed. 1990
*"Making Sense in Law. Linguistic, Psychological and Semiotic Perspectives", Liverpool, Deborah Charles Publications, 1995, pp.xii + 512
*"Making Sense in Jurisprudence, Liverpool, Deborah Charles Publications", 1996, pp.362
*"Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law", Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, pp.332 (JSOT Supplement Series, 314)
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