
Professor John Paul Jones teaches and writes about constitutional law, administrative law, maritime law, and military law. He has written more than three dozen articles and book chapters on these subjects, and his scholarship has appeared in the American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, and Tulane Law Review, among other venues. Professor Jones sits on the advisory boards of the National Institute of Military Justice, and has acted as a consultant to the World Bank, constitutional advisor to Albania, Lithuania, Macedonia, and Ukraine, and visiting scholar at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He has served as Editor or Associate Editor of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce since 1995. Professor Jones was awarded the University of Richmond’s Distinguished Educator Award in 1987 and 2008.
Administrative Law, 49 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1 (2015) (with John Mohrmann).
Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Administrative Law, 47 U. Rich. L. Rev. 7 (2012) (with Afsana Chowdhury).
The Sky Has Not Fallen Yet on Punitive Damages in Admiralty Cases, 83 Tul. L. Rev. 1289 (2009).
Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Administrative Law, 43 U. Rich. L. Rev. 73 (2008) (co-authored with Molly Geissenhainer).
Expatriation and Procedural Due Process, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David Tanenhaus, ed. 2008) (Macmillan Reference).
Brief of Professors David J. Bederman et al. as Amici Curiae in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, No. 07-219, Supreme Court of the United States, on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2007).
Anthony M. Kennedy, in The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (Melvin I. Urofsky, ed., 2d. ed. 2006) (CQ Press).
Expatriation, United States v. Kahriger, and Anthony McLeod Kennedy, in The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman, ed. 2006) (Routledge Reference).
The Supreme Court: A Unique Institution in The Highest Court in the Land, U.S. Department of State E-Journal (April, 2005).
Brief of Alain de Foucauld as Amicus Curiae in R.M.S. Titanic, Inc. v. The Wrecked and Abandoned Vessel, No. 04-1933, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, on appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (2004).
Brief of Professors Francesco Berlingieri et al. as Amici Curiae in Norfolk Southern Railway Co., v. James N. Kirby Pty. Ltd., No. 02-1028, Supreme Court of the United States, on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2004).
Ships, Diverting and Ordering into Port, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (R. Wolfrum, online ed. 2010).
Collisions, in 8 Benedict on Admiralty (J. Edginton, ed., 2005).
Review of Jeffrey Toobin, The Oath: The Obama Whitehouse and the Supreme Court, 27 NAACA News 8 (2013).
Book Review, 51 Am. J. Legal Hist. 377 (2011) (reviewing George Athan Billias, Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989).
Review of John A.C. Cartner, Richard P. Fiske & Tara L. Leitner, The International Law of the Shipmaster, 2010 ITC News No. 7 (Newsletter of the International Transportation Committee of the ABA Section of International Law).
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