Jacob Smith

About

I am a researcher and human rights advocate, focusing on international law and public law. I specialise in advocating on issues of counterterrorism, transitional justice and military accountability in the UK and internationally, creating and implementing advocacy strategies based on legal frameworks.

Experience

• Rights and Security International (6 yrs 3 mos)
  • Team Leader, Freedom of Expression and Belief
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    (This workstream was, from 2023-2024, the UK Accountability workstream.) I work extensively on issues of national security and human rights law in the UK and internationally, devising and implementing legal and policy advocacy strategies (Parliamentary, UN, media, etc.) to create systemic change

  • Officer, UK Accountability
    Nov 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Officer, Research & Advocacy
    May 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Associate Lecturer in Law at University of Surrey
  Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

  Additional affiliations: - Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI - Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law Convening LLB modules on Privacy & Data Governance, Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law.

• Associate Lecturer in Law at University of the West of England
  Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr

  Teaching and marking LLB and LLM modules related to Public Law and International Law. I also supervise LLM dissertations on International Human Rights Law.

• Consultant Researcher at University of Nottingham
  Aug 2020 - Apr 2021 · 9 mos

  Updating and amending Dixon, McCorquodale and Williams’ ‘Cases and Materials on International Law’, including chapters on general PIL topics, International Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law.

• Consultant Legal Advisor at Solomonic
  Oct 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  Analysis of High Court judgments for corporate clients.