Publications
PDF The “Old” Black Corporate Bar: Durham’s Wall Street, 1898-1971 (Amos N. Jones) North Carolina Law Review (2014)
Over the last twenty years, eminent scholars such as David Wilkins have paid considerable attention to the “new black corporate bar” as a phenomenon worthy of treatment. This Article builds on that work by introducing …
PDF The Corrective Use of Lawsuit Data in Policing: Reconstructing the Vocabulary of Racial Profiling (Amos N. Jones) Widener Journal of Law, Economics & Race (2013)
PDF Defending Profiling While Combating Racism: A Companion to Ogletree’s ‘Presumption of Guilt’ (Amos N. Jones) North Carolina Central Law Review (2011)
PDF America’s Sizzling Summer of Espionage Enforcement has Roots in Obscure Registration Laws that Govern Foreign Intercourse (Amos N. Jones) IBA North American Regional Forum News (2010)
PDF Election 2008: What Private Employers and Their Employees Need to Know About Political Activity In and Out of the Workplace (Amos N. Jones and Daniel I. Prywes) BNA Workplace Law Report (2008)
PDF Egypt’s Competitive Liberalization in Services: Bilateral, Regional, and Multilateral (Amos N. Jones and Mohamed R. Hassanien) Currents: International Trade Law Journal(2007)
PDF Setting Aside the Will of the Plaintiffs: How and Why the 1950s School-Desegregation Strategy Marginalized Experiences of Black Self-Determination in Unequal Schools and Examples of Black Self-Sufficiency in Equalization Plans (Amos N. Jones) Georgia State University Law Review (2006)
PDF Black Like Obama: What the Junior Illinois Senator’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About Race in America, and Where We Should Go from Here (Amos N. Jones) Thurgood Marshall Law Review (2005)
PDF The Ghost of Wards Cove: The Supreme Court, the Bush Administration, and the Ideology Undermining Title VII (Amos N. Jones and D. Alexander Ewing) Harvard Blackletter Law Journal (2005)
Books (1)
PDF Historical Abstract of the Henry Wise Jones Family (Amos N. Jones) (2007)
Presentations (22)
Oral argument (Amos N. Jones) Kentucky Supreme Court (2014)
Unanimous April 2014 Kentucky Supreme Court victory reversing four previous judges’ decisions dating to 2010 on a First Amendment matter of first impression resulted in the published precedential opinion at 426 S.W.3d 597 (2014). Professor …
Mary Todd Lincoln and the Main Street Baptist Church of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1862: Radical Partners in Politics, Faith, and Racial Uplift? (Amos N. Jones) 95th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (2013)
Legal Education and the Practice of Law: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Global Order (Amos N. Jones) Rotaract Club of Metro Washington, D.C. (2013)
Mary Todd Lincoln and the Main Street Baptist Church of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1862: Partners in Politics, Faith, and Racial Uplift? (Amos N. Jones)Baptist History & Heritage Society’s Annual Conference (2013)
Paper accepted for presentation pursuant to 2013 conference theme, “Faith, Freedom, Forgiveness: Religion and the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconciliation in Our Time”
The Dismantling of De Jure Segregation in Kentucky: How Slave Religion, Strategic Voting, and Creative Lawyering Broke Barriers in a Socially Advanced Border State (Amos N. Jones) Faculty Workshop and Community Lecture/Discussion, University of Kentucky College of Law (2013)
The U.S. Presidential Election in Context: The Constitution, Racial Politics and the Future of Civil Rights Lawyering (Amos N. Jones) International Law Society, University of the Andes Law School (2012)
Putting Your Engineering Foundation to Work: Professional Options Ten Years Out (Amos N. Jones) Massachusettes Institute of Technology (2012)
Expert testimony (Amos N. Jones) Budget Oversight Hearing for the Office on Human Rights (2012)
Professor Jones’ testimony begins at 03:46:06 in the video.
Divining Exceptions: How the Supreme Court’s Hosanna-Tabor Decision Invites Offenses to the First Amendment’s Non-Establishment Clause (Amos N. Jones) Georgetown University Law Center faculty workshop (2012)
Through Education We Can Make It (Amos N. Jones) Owensboro Career Development Association Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholarship Banquet (2012)
International Law and Foreign Affairs: Adding Our Voices to the Global Dialogue (Amos N. Jones) Harvard Law School (2011)
Following the Ambassador-Designate to the new Republic of South Sudan, Jones discussed the advantages of engaging in global work as a private-sector actor, as he did when practicing international-trade law from the Washington, DC, office …
Law, Technology, and Emerging Economies: The Role of the International Lawyer as Everything in Trade and Development Changes (Amos N. Jones)Harvard Law School (2011)
The Presumption of Guilt: A Guided Discussion on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement, and Public Policy (Amos N. Jones) University of Chicago Law School (2011)
Address and discussion centered on forthcoming article titled The Corrective Use of Lawsuit Data in Policing: Reconstructing the Vocabulary of Racial Profiling.
The Black Law Firm in Business: From Bottom of the Barrel to Viable Enterprise (Amos N. Jones) 95th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (2010)
Obama’s America One Year On: Racial Mythology in a New Era, with Surprising Similarities to Australian Circumstances (Amos N. Jones) Whitley College(2010)
Complacent Boards, Angry Deacons, Church Meetings, and Other Challenges/Opportunities for the Young Preacher (Amos N. Jones) Academy of Preachers(2009)
Opening of the Evangelical Mind: Law (Amos N. Jones) Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (2007)
Introduction to International Trade Practice (Amos N. Jones and Curtis M. Dombek) Harvard Law School Global Practice Series Seminar (2007)
Setting Aside the Will of the Plaintiffs (Amos N. Jones) Monash University School of Law staff seminar (2007)
Cultural Wars and Constitutional Law: Australia and the United States Compared (Amos N. Jones) University of Melbourne Faculty of Law seminar (2007)
The Complexities of African American Ethnicity: What Obama’s Appearance on the National Scene Reveals About the Law of Race in America (Amos N. Jones) 90th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (2005)
Emory University and the United Methodist Church: One Student’s Story (Amos N. Jones) Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church (2000)
Popular Press (8)
Social Power and the Central Park 5 (Amos N. Jones) HuffPost Live (2013)
Webcast-program roundup appearance explaining Rules of Professional Conduct for prosecutors and general ethical standards for law teachers.
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin: How Far Can UT Go in Mimicking Racial Makeup of Texas? (Amos N. Jones) Capitol Affairs, Voice of Russia Radio (2012)
Radio-show appearance debating constitutionality of certain affirmative-action practices in college admissions with a California professor who had filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the position of Petitioner Fisher. Starting at 07:30 …
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin: A Historically Informed Counterpoint (Amos N. Jones) Capitol Affairs, Voice of Russia Radio (2012)
Radio-show appearance defending constitutionality of affirmative action in admissions following a California professor who filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on the side of Petitioner Fisher.
The Cherokee Freedman: Why Blacks Would Be Kicked Out (Amos N. Jones) Al Butler Radio Show, WURD-900 AM (Philadelphia) (2011)
Radio-show appearance explaining, in light of sovereign immunity, popular sovereignty, and racial politics, why and how a distinguished Native American nation would endorse racially discriminatory policies to exclude legitimate black members.
50 Years Ago, Civil Rights Movement Bloomed in Bluegrass (Amos N. Jones) Lexington Herald-Leader (2010)
Morris Brown Can Thrive as a ‘Residential College’ (Amos N. Jones) Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2010)
Amos’s Sermon: America is Ready for a Black President of the United States, But is John Howard? (Amos N. Jones) The (Harvard Law) Record (2007)
Amos’s Sermon: Appreciating the Triumph of Truth (Amos N. Jones) The (Harvard Law) Record (2006)
Book Reviews (8)
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader (book review) (Amos N. Jones) (2013)
Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi (book review) (Amos N. Jones) Journal of African American History (2012)
Mrs. Dred Scott: The Woman Behind the Scenes of the Famous Case (book review) (Amos N. Jones) (2010)
The Leader of the Race: A Biography of Booker T. Washington Defends His Life and Legacy (book review) (Amos N. Jones) (2009)
Think With Me Today: The Seedbed of Martin Luther King Jr.’s, Greatest Speech (book review) (Amos N. Jones) (2009)
The First Black Congressmen: Another Angle on Reconstruction (book review) (Amos N. Jones) (2008)
Crimes of the Holocaust (book review) (Amos N. Jones) Harvard Human Rights Journal (2006)
Torture (book review) (Amos N. Jones) Harvard Human Rights Journal (2005)
Professional Activities (3)
Presenter, Constructing Citizenship from 1619 to the 1964 Civil Rights Act (Amos N. Jones) (2014)
Amos Jones appeared on the four-scholar panel “Constructing Citizenship from 1619 to the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” a 50-year commemorative roundtable moderated by Barbara Hamm Lee and televised by PBS affiliate WHRO-TV from Norfolk State …
Moot Court Judge, First-Year Finals (Amos N. Jones) (2012)
University of the District of Columbia David A. Clark School of Law
Judge, 2011 National Animal Law Moot Court Competition (Amos N. Jones) (2011)
University of Chicago Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund