Bernard Jackson

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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 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 on legal positivism and has been an active participant in Jewish Law Association.

Jackson is a highly prolific author.

[edit] Selected works

For Bernard Jackson's career and research interests, see 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)