Bernard Stuart Jackson is a former law professor at Liverpool Polytechnic, the University of Kent (1985), and the University of Liverpool (Queen Victoria Professor of Law, 1989–97). From 1997-2009 he was Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

, Co-Director of its Centre for Jewish Studies and Director of its Agunah Research Unit (2004–09). Latterly, he was (PT) Professor of Law and Jewish Studies at Liverpool Hope University (2009–15). His major academic interests are legal theory,

semiotics Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...

, and Jewish law. Jackson was the founding editor of ''The Jewish Law Annual'', 1978–97; and (with others) has published ''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 Legal positivism (as understood in the Anglosphere) is a school of thought of analytical jurisprudence developed largely by legal philosophers during the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Jeremy Bentham and John Austin. While Bentham and Austin de ...

and has been both Hon. President and Chairman of The Jewish Law Association. He was a founder member of the International Association for the Semiotics of Law, and initiator of its journal. Jackson studied early Jewish law under

David Daube David Daube (8 February 1909, in Freiburg, Germany – 24 February 1999, in Berkeley, California) was the twentieth century's preeminent scholar of ancient law. He combined a familiarity with many legal systems, particularly Roman law and biblica ...

Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford) The Regius Chair of Civil Law, founded in the 1540s, is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford. Foundation The Regius Chair of Civil Law at Oxford was founded by King Henry VIII, who established five such Regius Professorshi ...

Selected works

Single author books: *''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) *"Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16", Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 552 *"Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament", Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007, pp. 264 (Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, 16) * Agunah, The Manchester Analysis, Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications, 2011, pp. 299 Full bibliography (over 200 items) at http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/lib_biblioBSJ1.html, updated annually

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