Dr. Miles Jackson

Biography

Miles Jackson is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and the Sir David Lewis Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He holds an MA and DPhil from the University of Oxford, an LLM from Harvard Law School, and an LLB from the University of South Africa. His research interests encompass general international law, jurisdiction, immunities, state responsibility law, public law, international humanitarian law, and criminal law. His doctoral research, supported by the Rhodes Scholarship, focused on complicity in international law and was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Jackson has written extensively on command and superior responsibility, with a recent commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Ambos, 2022), as well as countermeasures in state responsibility law. His work has appeared in esteemed journals including the American Journal of International Law and the European Journal of International Law. In 2017, he was awarded the Cassese Prize in International Criminal Law Studies. He contributes to the Oxford Pro Bono Publico and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Jackson teaches courses on International Law of Armed Conflict, Oxford Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has acted as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice and has provided legal opinions for various states and organizations. Additionally, he directs the Oxford International Law Course for Navy Government Lawyers and co-directs the International Law Course for the Army Legal Service. His research is available through academic platforms.

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