For Immediate Release
April 19, 2007

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff is pleased to announce the appointment of Georgetown Law Professor Vicki Jackson as the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law. Jackson will be formally installed in a ceremony at the Law Center on April 30.

Prof. Jackson

"Vicki Jackson is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost constitutional law scholars and has played an important role in advancing the field of comparative constitutional law as well," said Aleinikoff. "This professorship is a well-deserved honor."

Jackson joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1985, where she teaches courses on constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, federal courts, the Supreme Court and gender-related subjects. She was associate dean for research at the Law Center from 2001-2003 and associate dean for research and academic programs from 2004-2005.

Jackson is co-editor with former Georgetown Law Professor Mark Tushnet of a collection of scholarly essays, Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law, and of a leading coursebook on comparative constitutional law. Her articles on federalism, sovereign immunity and the 11th Amendment, and other topics in U.S. and comparative constitutional law have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Supreme Court Review, Yale Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal and other scholarly journals. Additionally, she serves as articles editor for I•CON, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and as a vice president of the International Association of Constitutional Law.

Jackson served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (2000-2001), as a member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors (1999-2002); as co-chair of the Special Committee on Gender of the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias (1992-95), and as a member of the D.C. Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures (1992-98).

The Carmack Waterhouse Professorships at Georgetown Law, which include professorships in law, medicine, ethics and public policy, state and local government, constitutional law, and legal theory, were established by the late Carmack Waterhouse, Georgetown Law class of 1935, and his wife, Mary, with a gift from their estate. Waterhouse was a patent attorney with the Atomic Energy Commission until his retirement in 1967. He died in 1995.

 

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