Professor Mark L. Jones announces retirement
After 44 years of dedicated service to Mercer Law School, Professor of Law Mark L. Jones has announced his retirement. Over the course of his career at the Law School, Jones has taught in the areas of immigration law, comparative law, jurisprudence, and experiential education. He has written law review articles about European Union (EU) law, international trade law, immigration law, the theory and practice of legal education, lawyer professionalism and virtue, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. In 2021, Carolina Academic Press published his book Professions and Politics in Crisis. He has served as faculty advisor to the Mercer Law Review, International Law Students Association, and the Mercer Immigration Law Society, and he co-directed Mercer University’s “Phronesis Project for the Exploration of Character, Practical Wisdom, and Professional Formation.” Jones also served as a member of the Georgia Immigration Law Working Group (now the Georgia Immigration Coalition) and the Georgia4Immigrants Coalition. He has served as Brainerd Currie Honor Society president since 2013.
Jones holds a Masters of Arts degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University, England, and an LL.M. from the University of Michigan. He pursued postgraduate legal studies in Germany, practiced EU law in Brussels, Belgium, for several years, and is an English barrister. Jones became a U.S. citizen in 1993 and married his wife Margaret in 1996. Their family includes their son Nicholas, Margaret’s two daughters, Cat and Laurie, and their dog Idgy.
Jones said, “From my present vantage point, my 44 years at Mercer Law School have passed very quickly—too quickly. Mercer Law School and Mercer University have been very good to me over the decades and will always have a special place in my heart. I will cherish fond memories of the many wonderful students and colleagues who have been such an important part of my life. And even when fully retired, I look forward to continuing my relationship with the Law School and the University. For example, as Symposium co-faculty liaison/facilitator, I am working together with Lead Articles Editor Rachel Ratajczak, other members of the Mercer Law Review editorial board, and several faculty colleagues to organize the October 2024 Law Review Symposium on “Parts of a Whole: The Multiple Roles of the Lawyer and Professional Identity.”
