Francis Jacobs
Sir Francis Geoffrey Jacobs (born 8 June 1939) is a British
jurist who served as
Advocate General at the
Court of Justice of the European Communities from October 1988 to January 2006. He was educated at the
City of London School, and
Christ Church, Oxford, where he read
Mods and Greats (
Classics), and
Nuffield College, Oxford, where he read for a
DPhil in
Law. He practised as a barrister from
Fountain Court Chambers in London. Jacobs has served as an official with the Secretariat of the
European Commission of Human Rights, Professor of
European Law at the
University of London and Director of the Centre of European Law for
King's College London School of Law. He is visiting professor at the
College of Europe. He was appointed a
Privy Councillor in December 2005.
On 4 December 2007, Jacobs was elected President of Missing Children Europe, the European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children.
He was President of the
European Law Institute from 2011 to 2013.
He married in 1975 (as his second wife) Susan Cox, granddaughter of
Michael Gordon Clark; they have three daughters and one son. He has one son by an earlier marriage.
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