John Jackson (law professor)

John Howard Jackson ( born April 6, 1932 in Kansas City ) is an American lawyer. He worked from 1961 to 1966 as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1966 to 1997 at the University of Michigan, and since 1998 professor at Georgetown University. His main areas of activity are the international economic law and international economic relations. He has received many honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg and the European University Institute and the Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law.

Life

John Howard Jackson was born in 1932 in Kansas City in 1954 and received an AB degree from Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a Juris Doctor in 1959 from the University of Michigan. Here he became a professor in 1966, after he from 1959 to 1961 to 1966 was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley after graduating first in Milwaukee as a lawyer at the law firm Foley and Lardner Sammond and 1961 have worked. At the University of Michigan, where he also served as president for academic affairs in the years 1988/1989, he also taught international law, private international law, law of U.S. foreign relations and international business law. After his retirement from the University of Michigan at the end of 1997, he moved to Georgetown University, at the law school, he works as a professor and as director of the Institute of International Law since 1998.

In addition to his university commitments John Howard Jackson worked as a consultant to the Ford Foundation and as a member of the editorial board of the journal American Journal of International Law. Since 1998 he has been chief editor of the Oxford University Press in the Journal of International Economic Law.

Work

The scientific interest of John Howard Jackson is considered the international economic law and international economic relations, in particular the World Trade Organization ( WTO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT) and the International Monetary Fund. He has published several books on the legal basis, the functioning and the impact of WTO and GATT, and is in this area as one of the leading American experts of the present.

Awards

John Howard Jackson was awarded in recognition of his work, among others, in 1992 awarded by the Faculty of Law, Columbia University Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award and 2008 with the Manley O. Hudson Medal, the highest award of the American Society of International Law, the him beyond appointed honorary vice-president. The University of Hamburg (2003) and the European University Institute ( 2008) awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2002, he stopped at the University of Cambridge, the Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture. Under the title " New Directions in International Economic Law" was published in 2000 a Festschrift in honor of John Howard Jackson.

Works (selection)

• World Trade and the Law of GATT: A Legal Analysis of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Charlottesville 1969
• Anti -dumping Law, Policy and Implementation. Ann Arbor 1979
• The World Trade Organization: Constitution and Jurisprudence. London 1998
• The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations. Cambridge and New York 2000
• Sovereignty, the WTO and Changing Fundamentals of International Law. Cambridge and New York in 2006