Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law; Associate Dean (Transnational Legal Studies)
B.A., J.D., Yale

Assistant: Terican Gross

Phone: 9645

Biography

Upon graduation from law school, Professor Jackson served as a law clerk to Judge Murray Gurfein (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit), Morris Lasker (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York), and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She teaches courses in constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, federal courts, the Supreme Court, and on gender-related subjects. She is co-author with Professor Mark Tushnet of a coursebook on Comparative Constitutional Law, and serves as an Articles Editor for I.Con, the International Journal of Constitutional Law. Her articles on federalism, sovereign immunity and the 11th Amendment, and gender equality have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Georgetown Law Review, and other scholarly journals. Her research interests also include comparative constitutional law, comparative federalism, and freedom of expression. She served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (2000-01); as a member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors (1999-2002); as a co-chair of the Special Committee on Gender of the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias (1992-95), and a member of the D.C. Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures (1992-98).