University Professor
A.B., Princeton; J.D., University of Michigan; LL.D. (Hon.), Hamburg University (Germany); LLD (Hon.), European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Expertise: international economic law.
Prof. Jackson’s most recent important honors include the Manley O. Hudson medal awarded him in April 2008 by the American Society of International Law, and an honoray doctorate award in October 20008 by the European Union Institute (in Florence, Italy. The Manley O. Hudson award is the highest honor of the ASIL, and is awarded no more than once a year, to honor the lifetime work of international law scholarship of of the recipient. The EUI award of honorary doctorate is also intended to honor the excelence of lifetime work of legal scholarship related to international economic relations and activity.
Professor Jackson joined the Georgetown faculty after a distinguished career as Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Delhi in Delhi, India and the University of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium, a Consultant on Legal Education to the Ford Foundation, a Research Scholar at the headquarters of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva, Switzerland, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Brussels, Belgium. He has served as General Counsel for the Office of the President's Special Representative for Trade in the U.S. Executive Office of the President in Washington, D.C. (1973-1974), and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan (1988-1989). Over the years, he has also advised the U.S. and various foreign governments, international organizations, and in 2000, served as chairperson of a WTO panel for a trade dispute settlement procedure. Professor Jackson has served as a member of the board of editors for the American Journal of International Law, Law and Policy in International Business, International Tax & Business Lawyer, Fordham International Law Journal, and the Maryland Journal of International Law & Trade. He is a member of the editorial board for The World Economy and a past member of the editorial boards for the International Bar Association and the Journal of World Trade Law. He is the editor in chief and a founding editor of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL), published by Oxford Press (UK) since 1998. On November 5, 1998, Professor Jackson was formally inaugurated to the position of University Professor at GULC. His inaugural lecture was subsequently the basis of an article in the JIEL (Vol. 3, Issue 1) entitled, "International Economic Law in Times that are Interesting."
Professor Jackson is also Director of the Institute of International Economic Law at GULC. In early 2008, Professor Jackson received the Manley O. Hudson Medal, for pre-eminent scholarship and achievement in international law, of the American Society of International Law. In 1992, Professor Jackson received the Wolfgang Friedman Memorial Award for lifelong contribution to the field of international law, of the Columbia University Journal of Transnational Law and Columbia Society of International Law at Columbia University. He has been an honorary vice president of the American Society of International Law, having previously served in various capacities including Vice President of the Society. Professor Jackson was also honored in early 2000 by the publication of a volume of essays in his honor by authors from four different continents, discussed and presented at a conference held at GULC in January 2001.
In November 2002, Professor Jackson delivered the annual Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture, in Cambridge University, England. The series of three lectures was entitled, "The Changing Fundamentals of International Law and International Economic Law: Perspectives on Sovereignty, Subsidiary, Power Allocation, and International Institution Building." A book published by Cambridge University Press in April 2006 based partly on these lectures is entitled "Sovereignty, the WTO, and Changing Fundamentals of International Law." In June of 2003, Professor Jackson was awarded the honorary degree, "Doctor Iuris Honoris Causa," from Hamburg University Faculty of Law. Also in June, he was appointed by WTO Director-General, Dr. Supachai Panitchpadki, to a WTO Consultative Board, composed of eight "eminent persons," and chaired by Peter Sutherland. The Board was charged with considering and presenting a report to the Director-General and others about various systemic institutional problems of the WTO, and this report was published in January 2005 by the WTO. In March 2006 Prof. Jackson was honored in China with the title of "Honorary Professor" at the University of International Business and Economics(UIBE) and Renmin University. Professor Jackson has published numerous books, articles, and chapters (a link to his full bibliography appears below). Among his more recent books are: The Jurisprudence of the GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2000), The World Trade Organization: Constitution and Jurisprudence. (Chatham House Papers, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1998), Legal Problems of International Economic Relations (4th ed. 2002, co-authored); The World Trading System (MIT Press, 2d ed. 1997); Implementing the Uruguay Round (Oxford Press, 1997, co-authored). His articles have appeared in law reviews throughout this country and abroad. A longer version of this resume is available upon request.
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