Bernard Jackson 1923526 223698875 2008-07-05T09:30:27Z Rdbrewster 6346227 Links {{Cleanup|date=January 2007}} {{otherpeople4|the professor|other people named Bernard Jackson|Bernard Jackson (disambiguation)}} '''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 on [[legal positivism]] and has been an active participant in [http://www.mucjs.org/JLASThe Jewish Law Association]. Jackson is a highly prolific author. ==Selected 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) [[Category:English lawyers]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Manchester]] [[Category:English legal writers]]