James T.R. Jones

James T.R. Jones received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1975 and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1978. Before entering an academic career, he clerked for a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. In addition, he worked in private practice for firms in New York and Florida. In 1985, he entered teaching as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He joined the faculty of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in 1986.

Professor Jones has written a number of articles, including seven on the use of tort law to enforce the legal rights of domestic violence victims. He also has spoken extensively on this topic, most recently in 2000 at the Symposium on Integrating Responses to Domestic Violence conducted at the Loyola University of New Orleans School of Law and co-sponsored by that institution and the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence.

His research and teaching interests include domestic violence, with an emphasis on professional liability, torts, decedents' estates, legal writing, written advocacy, and mental health in legal academia.

Professor Jones belongs to the Florida Bar and the Legal Writing Institute.