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AMOS JONES is a Top 100, Super Lawyers-rated American who practiced with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner for three years before joining the legal academy in North Carolina for seven, earning unanimous promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Law in 2015. In 2006-07, he was a Fulbright/Visiting Scholar at Melbourne and in Fall 2015 was Academic Visitor to the Faculty of Law at Oxford. In May 2019, he was honored with the Albert M. Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from the publishers of Who's Who in America.

Jones's specialties include civil rights, contracts (particularly in employment), constitutional law (particularly freedom of religion), invidious discrimination, the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, and political forecasting. His practice-representative publications include: "America’s sizzling summer of espionage enforcement has roots in obscure registration laws that govern foreign intercourse," in IBA NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL FORUM, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 2010; "Election 2008: What Private Employers and Their Employees Need to Know about Political Activity in and out of the Workplace," with Daniel Prywes, in BNA WORKPLACE LAW REPORT, Feb. 8, 2008; and "Egypt’s Competitive Liberalization in Services," with Dr. Mohamed Hassanien at 16 CURRENTS: INT’L TRADE L. J. 41 (2007). His most-recent scholarship appears in the JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, the WIDENER JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS & RACE and the NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW. Jones is cited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., in "The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America" (2012) and by Alan Dershowitz in "Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways" (2006).

A noted appellate attorney, Jones has won key contracts and civil rights disputes in employment litigation before major courts of appeals, including the Kentucky Supreme Court (7-0 reversal of lower courts in 2014 in a contracts case involving a constitutional defense of first impression) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (3-0 reversal of lower tribunals in 2016 in a case clarifying ADR contracts' limitations as to certain civil rights claims).

A former journalist for several Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers in the eastern United States, Jones played viola professionally in North Carolina's Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000-01 after two seasons as Principal Viola in the Emory University Symphony Orchestra.

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