LEGAL PRACTICE

Jonathan H. Marks obtained his M.A., B.C.L. (J.D., LL.M equivalent) from Oxford University.  He subsequently qualified as both a barrister and an accredited mediator.  He has over a decade of experience in legal practice, litigating and advising on issues of  domestic, European and international law.  His expertise encompasses commercial regulation (including pharmaceutical regulation), environmental law, health law and human rights law. He represented Human Rights Watch in the Pinochet case in the House of Lords.  He also represented Dr Nancy Olivieri in her efforts to quash the European equivalent of an FDA new drug approval in the European Court of Justice. It was this case that sparked his interest in bioethics.

THE ACADEMY

                                                                                                       Before coming to the Bar, Jonathan Marks taught as a visitor at Worcester College, Oxford, King's College, London and the University of New South Wales.  Since 2000, he has taught at a number of institutions in the U.S., including the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law (where he developed courses on the law, ethics and policy of counterterrorism after 9/11).  From 2004-6, he was Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics at Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.  He is now Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law at The Pennsylvania State University, teaching on the main campus (University Park) and in the Department of Humanities at the College of Medicine, Hershey.