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Jonathan Marks

Called 1992
Jonathan Marks
Jonathan's practice encompasses international law, EU law, environmental law, human rights law (particularly privacy and data protection), health law and commercial law (including pharmaceutical regulation). Over the last decade, his practice has involved commercial litigation (at both trial and appellate levels), judicial review and hearings before both the ECJ and CFI. Jonathan is also a CEDR-accredited Mediator and has experience of mediation in both the UK and the US.

Before coming to the Bar, Jonathan taught at Worcester College, Oxford, King's College, London and in Australia. After 11 September 2001, he developed a course on terrorism and the law, which he has taught in Europe and the USA (including the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and UNC Chapel Hill Law School). In addition, Jonathan has participated in conference panels in the USA on international law and has lectured on topics including the Pinochet case, universal jurisdiction and the lawfulness of counter-terrorism measures after September 11. He has also been retained as an international law expert on the legality of the war in Iraq in criminal proceedings in the USA.

Having spent almost four years representing Dr Nancy Olivieri in ECJ proceedings against a Canadian pharmaceutical company and the European drug approval agency, Jonathan was appointed Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics, Health Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health (2004 – 6). Since August 2006, he has been Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also director of the intercollege bioethics program on the university’s main campus, University Park.

Jonathan was the sole supporting EU environmental law expert on a team, led by Maurice Sheridan, that was awarded a contract by the European Commission to help ten Central and Eastern European States amend their environmental laws to meet EU standards prior to accession in May 2004. He has also advised on the implications of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia from commercial and international law perspectives.

During 2009-10, Jonathan is on leave at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he is the Edmond J. Safra Faculty Fellow.
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