University Professor of Law
Georgetown Law Center

Professor Jackson joined the Georgetown Law Center 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). 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, and several others. 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.

Professor Jackson is also Director of the Institute of International Economic Law at GULC. 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, and was also honored in early 2000 by the publication of a volume of essays in his honor. In November 2002, Professor Jackson delivered the annual Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture, in Cambridge University, England. The series of three lectures has been extended into a book entitled, Sovereignty, the WTO, and Changing Fundamentals of International Law, published by Cambridge University Press, due out this month (April 2006). In June of 2003, Professor Jackson was awarded the honorary degree, "Doctor Iuris Honoris Causa," from Hamburg University Faculty of Law. Also in June 2003, he was appointed by WTO Director-General, Dr. Supachai Panitchpadki, to the WTO Consultative Board, composed of eight "eminent persons," and chaired by Peter Sutherland. Professor Jackson has published numerous books, articles, and chapters.

Education:
A.B., Princeton; J.D., University of Michigan; LL.D. (Hon), Hamburg University (Germany)