John Paul Jones
Professor John Paul Jones teaches Administrative Law, Admiralty Law, and Constitutional Law at the University of Richmond. He received his B.A. from Marquette University, his J.D. (magna cum laude) from the University of San Diego, and his LL.M. from Yale University. After law school, he served as a clerk for the Honorable David Schwartz of the United States Court of Claims. For several years, he was a visiting scholar at the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Since 1992, he has assisted Albania with writing and implementing a constitution for the post-communist era and various other East European states, including Bosnia Hercegovina, Macedonia, the Ukraine, and the Slovak Republic regarding a variety of constitutional matters.
Professor Jones is a member of, or has chaired, several bar and academic committees related to maritime law and administrative law. He manages INTERNET forums for global conversations by scholars in the fields of admiralty law and constitutional law, and has produced a directory of the world’s constitutions on the World Wide Web. Professor Jones has written articles on maritime personal injury law, marine collision, treasure salvage, state administrative procedure, judicial administration, and the jurisprudence of Justice Anthony Kennedy, and edited a book reexamining the conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd for aiding John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He served for five years as the Editor of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce and serves currently as the Journal’s Associate Editor.
Professor Jones is a former Naval Flight Officer and intelligence officer who flew F-4 Phantoms in Vietnam and later taught pilots to fly the F-14 Tomcat. He is twice a graduate of the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) and a designated Tactical Action Officer. He later served in U.S. Navy and NATO reserve intelligence commands, and led the Naval Investigative Service Reserve Unit in Norfolk, before retiring with the rank of Captain.