Staff profile

Biography

Johanna joined Durham Law School in 2015, having previously taught at the University of Warwick, LSE and Birkbeck. She holds degrees from SOAS (BA in Arabic), Birkbeck (LLB) and the LSE (MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society; PhD in Law). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Johanna currently researches in property theory with a particular focus on the trust. She has previously written on Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas and continues to be influenced by European philosophies of law and justice. 

Johanna is a founding member of the Durham Centre for Law & Philosophy.

• Legal theory
• Philosophy of law
• Property theory
• Trusts law

• Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy

Chapter in book

• Jacques, Johanna (2019). The Reproduction of Property through the Production of Personhood: The Family Trust and the Power of Things. In Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell. Piska, Nick & Gibson, Haley Oxford: Oxford: Counterpress.
• Jacques, Johanna (2016). Law, Decision, Necessity: Shifting the Burden of Responsibility. In The Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt: Law, Politics, Theology. Arvidssen, M., Brännström, L. & Minkkinen, P. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 107-119.

Journal Article

• Jacques, Johanna (2021). E-money and trusts: A property analysis. Law Quarterly Review
• Jacques, Johanna (2021). A ‘Most Astonishing’ Circumstance: The Survival of Jewish POWs in German War Captivity during the Second World War. Social & Legal Studies 30(3): 362-383.
• Jacques, Johanna (2019). Property and the Interests of Things: The Case of the Donative Trust. Law and Critique 30(2): 201-220.
• Jacques, Johanna (2017). Where Nothing Happened: The Experience of War Captivity and Levinas’s Concept of the ‘There Is’. Social and Legal Studies 26(2): 230-248.
• Jacques, Johanna (2015). From Nomos to Hegung: Sovereignty and the Laws of War in Schmitt's International Order. Modern Law Review 78(3): 411-430.