For Immediate Release
January 21, 2009

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff has appointed Georgetown Law Professor Vicki Jackson to the newly created position of associate dean for transnational legal studies for this coming semester.

Prof. Vicki Jackson

"As one of the nation’s foremost experts in comparative constitutional law, Vicki will play an important role in furthering our global intellectual agenda," said Aleinikoff. "I am very grateful to her for taking on these new responsibilities."

As associate dean for transnational legal studies, Jackson’s duties will include working with faculty to support research, institutes and academic conferences on transnational legal issues; promoting scholarly collaborations with foreign institutions; and identifying foreign visiting professors and scholars of interest.

Jackson joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1985, where she is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law. 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 2001-03 and associate dean for research and academic programs from 2004-05.

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 (2000-01), 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).

 

 

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