Francis Jacobs

Francis Geoffrey Jacobs ( born 1939 ) is a British lawyer who was from 1988 to 2006, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

Jacobs began his legal career as a barrister and eventually became Attorney-General. He then became official in the Secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights and Legal Secretary to Advocate General Jean -Pierre Warner. He was from 1974 to 1988 professor at the University of London for European Law and as of 1981 Director of the Centre for European Law at King's College London. From 7 October 1988 to January 10, 2006 Jacobs, Advocate General at the European Court. He was elected a member of the Privy Council and knighted in 2005. Currently Jacobs is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Brussels.

Francis Geoffrey Jacobs wrote several works on the subject of European law and founded the Yearbook of European Law and gave it out.