Miles Jackson

Miles Jackson is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and the Sir David Lewis Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He holds MA and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford, an LLM degree from Harvard Law School, and an LLB from the University of South Africa. His doctoral research, supported by a Rhodes Scholarship, was on complicity in international law and was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He has also written extensively on command/superior responsibility, including for the most recent Commentary to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Ambos, 2022), as well as countermeasures in the law of state responsibility ((2024) 118 AJIL 231 with Federica Paddeu) .

Miles has acted as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, and has provided advice and legal opinions to a range of States, including Malaysia, Japan, Denmark and Namibia, and to international and civil society organisations, including NATO, the OSCE, Open Society Foundations, Human Rights Watch, and the Clooney Foundation. He is the director of the Oxford International Law Course for Royal Navy and FCDO Lawyers, and co-director (with Dapo Akande) of the Oxford International Law Course for MFA Lawyers.