John Jackson (law professor)

John H. Jackson was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Howard Clifford and Lucile (Deischer) Jackson.[3] He graduated from Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri, in 1950. In 1954 he obtained a A.B. from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.[5] Then, he served two years in the US Army stationed in Japan. In 1959, he earned his LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School.[3]

After two years of private law practice at the large corporate law firm Foley, Sammond & Lardner in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he became professor at the University of California at Berkeley Law School (1961–1966), the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor (1966–1997), and Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. (1998–2014).[6][2][7] In 1968–1969 John H. Jackson was visiting professor at the University of Delhi, India and in 1975–1976 at the University of Brussels, Belgium.

In 1973–1974 he took a leave and served as General Counsel to the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative and worked on the Trade Act of 1974. In 1988–1989 he was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan. Throughout the years, he was also an adviser to a number of congressional committees on trade policy.

He was a Vice President of the American Society of International Law (1990–1992) and organized its International Economic Law Group.

He was regarded as one of the chief architects of the World Trade Organization and its dispute settlement procedure.[1][8][7]

He was the director of the Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center and editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Economic Law.[9]

• Doctor Iuris Honoris Causa, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2003.[10]
• Doctor Honoris Causa, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2008.[11][4]
• The John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition

• World trade and the law of GATT: A Legal Analysis of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1 ed.). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 1969.[12]
• Jackson, John H.; Louis, Jean-Victor; Matsushita, Mitsuo (1984). Implementing the Tokyo Round: National Constitutions and International Economic Rules. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
• The World Trading System : Law and Policy of International Economic Relations (1 ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1989. ISBN 0-262-60021-8. Retrieved April 11, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
• Restructuring the GATT System (1 ed.). New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press. 1990 – via Internet Archive.
• The World Trade Organization : Constitution and Jurisprudence (1 ed.). London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1998.
• Sovereignty, the WTO and Changing Fundamentals of International Law (1 ed.). Cambridge, UK; New York, USA: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-86007-9.

• "Director-General Azevêdo pays tribute to Professor John Jackson". World Trade Organization. 9 November 2015.
• "In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus John H. Jackson, '59". Law Quadrangle Notes from Michigan Law. Spring 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
• "Interview with Professor John Jackson on the WTO's Dispute Settlement System". World Trade Organization. 4 July 2012.
• Evory, Ann, ed. (1979). "Jackson, John Howard 1932-". Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Work. Vol. 41-44R. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company. p. 343. ISBN 0-8103-0041-9. Retrieved March 21, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
• Hufbauer, Gary Clyde (June 2016). "Worthy of a Nobel: An Appreciation of John H. Jackson". Journal of International Economic Law. 19 (2): 353–354. doi:10.1093/jiel/jgw026.
• McRae, Donald (April 2016). "In MEMORIAM John H. Jackson (1932-2015)". American Journal of International Law. 110 (2): 260–268. doi:10.5305/amerjintelaw.110.2.0260. S2CID 151363638.
• Trachman, Joel (12 November 2015). "John Jackson, the Gentle Giant of International Law". Opinio Juris. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
• Williamson, Thomas (Fall 1997). "An Interview with John H. Jackson: Shaping International Economic Law". The Journal of the International Institute. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. 5 (1). hdl:2027/spo.4750978.0005.102. ISSN 1558-741X.
• "JACKSON, JOHN HOWARD". Who's Who in America 2000, Millennium Edition. Vol. I (A-K) (54th ed.). New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 1999. p. 2369. ISBN 0-8379-0200-2. Retrieved November 5, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
• Works by or about John Jackson at Internet Archive
• "John Howard Jackson". JSTOR.