Sir Francis Geoffrey Jacobs (born 8 June 1939) is a British

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who served as Advocate General at the

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from October 1988 to January 2006. He was educated at the

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, and

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, where he read Mods and Greats (

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), and

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, where he read for a

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. He practised as a barrister from

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in London. Jacobs has served as an official with the Secretariat of the

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, Professor of

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at the

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and Director of the Centre of European Law for

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. He is visiting professor at the

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. He was appointed a

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in December 2005. On 4 December 2007, Jacobs was elected President of Missing Children Europe, the European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children.Missing Children Europe: European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children
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from 2011 to 2013. He married in 1975 (as his second wife) Susan Cox, granddaughter of Michael Gordon Clark; they have three daughters and one son. He has one son by an earlier marriage.

List of cases

Cas
C-251/95
Sabel BV v Puma AG, Rudolf Dassler Sport *Cas
C-412/93
''Leclerc-Siplec''

995 Year 995 (Roman numerals, CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Japan * 17 May - Fujiwara no Michitaka (imperial regent) dies. * 3 June: Fujiwara no ...

ECR I-00179 *Cas
C-34-36/95
''De Agostini''

997 Year 997 (Roman numerals, CMXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Japan * 1 February: Empress Teishi gives birth to Princess Shushi - she is the first ...

ECR-I 3843 *Cas
C-409/95
''

Marschall v Land Nordrhein Westfalen ''Marschall v Land Nordrhein Westfalen'' (1997) C-409/95 is a German and EU labour law case concerning positive action. Facts Marschall was a teacher. He applied for promotion and did not get it and a woman did. The school's rules allowed for p ...

ECR I-06363 *Cas
C-405/98
''Gourmet International'' 001ECR-I 1795

See also

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