John Jackson (law professor) explained

John Howard Jackson
Birth Date:6 April 1932
Birth Place:Kansas City, Missouri, US
Death Place:Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Resting Place:Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Alma Mater:Princeton University (B.A.); University of Michigan Law School (J.D.)
Employer:United States Army, Japan
Foley, Sammond & Lardner; University of California at Berkeley Law School; University of Michigan Law School; U.S. Office of the Trade Representative; Georgetown University Law Center
Occupation:legal scholar
educator
Known For:International trade law
Notable Works:Book: 1969 . World trade and the law of GATT: A Legal Analysis of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade . 1 . Bobbs-Merrill . Indianapolis . [1]
Mother:Lucile Deischer
Father:Howard Clifford Jackson
Children:Jeannette, Lee Ann, Michelle

John Howard Jackson (April 6, 1932  - November 7, 2015) was an American legal scholar and educator, expert in international trade law.[1]

Biography

John H. Jackson was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Howard Clifford and Lucile (Deischer) Jackson. 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.[2] 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).[4] [5] [6] 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] [7] [6]

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.[8]

Honours

Selected bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. McRae. Donald. In MEMORIAM John H. Jackson (1932-2015). American Journal of International Law . 10.5305/amerjintelaw.110.2.0260 . 110. 2. 260–268 . April 2016. 151363638.
  2. Web site: Memorial: John H. Jackson'54 . Princeton Alumni Weekly . April 20, 2016.
  3. Book: JACKSON, JOHN HOWARD . Who's Who in America 2011 . New Providence, NJ . Marquis Who's Who . 2010 . I (A-l). 2179 . 65th . 978-0-8379-7025-7 . registration. . https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica00mar_ric/page/2179/mode/1up. registration . November 5, 2018.
  4. Web site: In Memoriam - Professor John H. Jackson via Georgetown University Law Center . 2016-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180530170646/http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/in-memoriam/john-jackson/ . 2018-05-30 . dead .
  5. Web site: John Howard Jackson Obituary . The Ann Arbor News . November 13, 2015.
  6. Web site: John Howard Jackson Obituary . Valley News, Ann Arbor, Michigan . December 10, 2015.
  7. Trachman . Joel . John Jackson and the Founding of the World Trade Organization: Empiricism, Theory and Institutional Imagination . Michigan Journal of International Law . 20 . 2 . 1999 . 31 October 2021.
  8. News: Altman. Daniel. Robert E. Hudec, 68, Expert on Global Trade Law, Dies. The New York Times. March 31, 2003 . October 21, 2016 .
  9. Jackson. John H. . Changing Fundamentals of International Law and International Economic Law . Archiv des Völkerrechts . 41 . 4. 435–448 . December 2003. 10.1628/0003892033034582 . 40800071 .
  10. Web site: European University Institute (EUI) . Doctor Honoris Causa of the EUI and Recipients of Doctor Honoris Causa Degrees . 8 October 2018.
  11. Web site: Petersmann. Ernst-Urlich . Laudatio for John H. Jackson (Degree Conferring Ceremony of the EUI). European University Institute . 3 October 2008 . Badia Fiesolana. 8 October 2018 .
  12. Picker Jr. . Sidney . World Trade and the Law of GATT. by John H. Jackson. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1969. Pp. xxxv, 948. $27.50 . Case Western Reserve Law Review. 22. 3 . 604–608. 21 September 2021.

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