Jackie Jones
{{Short description|British politician}}
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| constituency_MP = Wales
| term_start = 2 July 2019
| predecessor = Derek Vaughan
| successor = Constituency abolished
| term_end = 31 January 2020
| parliament = European
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|2|10}}
| birth_place = UK
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| nationality = British
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| profession = Politician, Barrister, Academic
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Jacqueline Margarete Jones (born 10 February 1966) is a Welsh politician, barrister, and academic. She served as the Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales from 2019{{cite web |title=The UK's European elections 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/crjeqkdevwvt/the-uks-european-elections-2019 |website=BBC News |accessdate=26 May 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-wales-48397641|title=European election 2019: Wales results as they happened|website=BBC News|date=26 May 2019 }} to 2020. She taught law at Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, and then at Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, where she was Professor of Feminist Legal Studies.{{cite web |title=CV |url=http://era-comm.eu/stream/Free_e-presentations/3_Jones_118DV28/media/CV.pdf |website=era-comm.eu |accessdate=27 May 2019 }}
Background
Jackie has lived in Cardiff and Pembrokeshire since 1985.{{Cite web|last=Owen|first=Cathy|date=2019-05-27|title=EU elections 2019: Who are Wales' newly-elected MEPs?|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/wales-meps-eu-election-brexit-16336176|access-date=2021-04-24|website=WalesOnline|language=en}}
Jones has been researching and teaching law for over 20 years, first at Cardiff Law School, then at Bristol Law School, UWE. Her main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of gender, migration, asylum process, human trafficking, violence against women, all within a human rights perspective.{{Cite web|title=Jackie Jones CV|url=http://era-comm.eu/stream/Free_e-presentations/3_Jones_118DV28/media/CV.pdf}}
Jones was previously the Chair of the Wales Assembly of Women and President of the European Women Lawyers Association, and worked with various equalities organisations, including Welsh Women's Aid and the National Alliance of Women's Organisations.
2019 European Elections
Jones was the Labour MEP for Wales in the European Parliament from July 2019 to January 2020, when the UK withdrew from the European Union. Within the European Parliament, Jones was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee, the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee, and a substitute member of the Transport and Tourism Committee, as well as first Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States.{{Cite web|title=Jackie JONES|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197758/JACKIE_JONES/history/9|access-date=2021-04-24|website=European Parliament|language=en}} Jones also founded the Wales-EU Parliamentary Friendship Group which focused on strengthening Welsh-EU relations and providing a platform for Welsh citizens' rights and interests at the European level post-Brexit.{{Cite web|title=Wales-EU Friendship Group Page|url=https://www.facebook.com/WalesEUGroup|access-date=2021-04-24|website=Facebook|language=en}}
After the European Parliament
Jones stood for the Labour Party in Preseli Pembrokeshire at the 2021 Senedd election.{{cite web|url=https://business.senedd.wales/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=333|title= Election results for Preseli Pembrokeshire - Senedd Election (Constituency) 2021 - Thursday, 6 May 2021|website=Senedd}}
From 2021 until late 2023, Jones was the chair of Wales for Europe.https://euromovescotland.org.uk/wales-for-europe-makes-the-case/https://cardiff.moderngov.co.uk/mgDeclarationSubmission.aspx?UID=1608&HID=1195&FID=0&HPID=0&LLL=0
Since May 2022 Jones has been a county councillor on Cardiif Council for the Whitchurch & Tongwylais ward.
In September 2023 she was selected prospective parliamentary candidate for Ceredigion Preseli at the 2024 general election.{{Cite web |title=Jackie Jones for Ceredigion Preseli |url=https://www.jackiejones.wales/cy |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=Jackie Jones for Ceredigion Preseli |language=cy}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Schulze |first1=Reiner |last2=Schulte-Nolke |first2=Hans |last3=Jones |first3=Jackie |title=A Casebook on European Consumer Law |date=2002 |publisher=Hart Publishing |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1841132273}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Jones |editor1-first=Jackie |editor2-last=Grear |editor2-first=Anna |editor3-last=Fenton |editor3-first=Rachel Anne |editor4-last=Stevenson |editor4-first=Kim |title=Gender, Sexualities and Law |date=2011 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0415574396}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Manjoo |editor1-first=Rashida |editor2-last=Jones |editor2-first=Jackie |editor1-link=Rashida Manjoo |title=The legal protection of women from violence : normative gaps in international law |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1138737969}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Jones |editor1-first=Jackie |editor2-last=Winterdyk |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=John Winterdyk |title=Human Trafficking: Challenges and Opportunities the 21st Century |date=2018 |publisher=LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing |isbn=978-6139852406}}
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Category:MEPs for Wales 2019–2020
Category:21st-century women MEPs for Wales
Category:Academics of Cardiff University
Category:Academics of the University of the West of England, Bristol
Category:British women legal scholars
Category:Feminist studies scholars
Category:People from Pembrokeshire
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