For Immediate Release
April 5, 2006

Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

Prof. John Jackson

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the interdependent world of the twenty-first century, long-held assumptions about international law are facing widespread challenge.  In his new book, "Sovereignty, the WTO and Changing Fundamentals of International Law" (Cambridge University Press), Georgetown University Law Center Professor John Jackson grapples with such fundamentals as the equality of nations, the monopoly of internal national power and non-interference, and how the forces of globalization are altering them.

Jackson's book examines modern approaches to sovereignty and the impact of globalization on international economic law and international institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO).  It explores the WTO’s evolution, structure and dispute settlement system, and tackles key problems facing the organization.  Jackson concludes by offering solutions and perspectives for the international legal community. 

After serving as the Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, Jackson joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1998 and became the director of the Institute of International Economic Law. 

He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Delhi in India and the University of Brussels in Belgium, a consultant on legal education to the Ford Foundation, a research scholar at the headquarters of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, Switzerland, and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in Brussels.  He served as general counsel for the Office of the President in Washington, D.C. (1973-1974) and associate vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan (1988-1989).

Jackson has advised the U.S. and various foreign governments and international organizations, and in 2000, served as chairperson of a WTO panel for a trade dispute settlement procedure.  He was appointed by the WTO director-general in 2003 to a newly constituted consultative board.  The author of numerous books, articles, and chapters, Jackson is the editor in chief and a founding editor of the Journal of International Economic Law.  He received the Wolfgang Friedman Memorial Award for lifelong contribution to the field of international law in 1992.    

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