John H. Jackson is a graduate of Princeton University's
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the
University of Michigan Law School. He practiced law in Milwaukee and
later became a professor of law at the University of California at
Berkeley. He joined the Michigan faculty in 1966. He has been a
visiting faculty member at the University of Delhi in Delhi, India,
the University of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium, and Tokyo
University, Japan, as well as 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, a
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Brussels, Belgium, and a visiting
fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington,
D.C. He has served as associate vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan and 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. He has also
served as a member of the board of editors for the American
Journal of International Law, the Georgetown Journal of Law
and Policy in International Business, the International Tax
& Business Lawyer, the Fordham International Law
Journal, and the Maryland Journal of International Law &
Trade. He is a member of the editorial board for The World
Economy and a past member of the editorial boards for the
International Bar Association and the Journal of World Trade
Law. In 1992 he received the Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award
for lifelong contribution to the field of international law from the
Columbia University Journal of Transnational Law. He has been
a member of the Council of the American Bar Association Section on
International Law & Practice, and the Council for the American
Society of International Law (as well as vice president of the
latter). He has published numerous books, articles, and chapters.
Among his more recent books are Legal Problems of International
Economic Relations, 3rd ed. (coauthored), and The World
Trading System: Law and Policy of International Economic
Relations, 2nd ed. His articles have appeared in law reviews
throughout this country and abroad. His Implementing the Uruguay
Round (co-authored), a volume of works by 13 authors with
analysis of 11 different countries' implementation processes, was
published in 1997 by Oxford Press, and his The World Trade
Organization: Constitution and Jurisprudence was published by the
Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in 1998. He
is also founding editor-in-chief of a new journal published by Oxford
University Press in England, started in 1998, the Journal of
International Economic Law (JIEL), which publishes scholarly
articles on a wide range of legal subjects related to international
economic law. In 1998, Prof. Jackson accepted the position of
university professor at the Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington, D.C., but he remains a member of the University of Michigan law faculty with his emeritus status.