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John Howard Jackson
Born(1932-04-06)6 April 1932
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Died7 November 2015(2015-11-07) (aged 83)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Resting placeForest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Alma materPrinceton University (B.A.); University of Michigan Law School (J.D.)
Occupation(s)legal scholar; educator
Employer(s)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
Known forInternational trade law
Notable workWorld trade and the law of GATT: A Legal Analysis of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1 ed.). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 1969.[1]
Spouse
Joan (Leland) Jackson
(m. 1962)
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ChildrenJeannette, Lee Ann, Michelle
Parents
  • Howard Clifford Jackson (father)
  • Lucile Deischer (mother)

John Howard Jackson (April 6, 1932 – November 7, 2015) was an American legal scholar and educator, expert in international trade law.[3][1][4]

Biography

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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]

Honours

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Selected bibliography

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ a b "John Howard Jackson Obituary". The Ann Arbor News. November 13, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "JACKSON, JOHN HOWARD". Who's Who in America 2011. Vol. I (A-l) (65th ed.). New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who. 2010. p. 2179. ISBN 978-0-8379-7025-7. Retrieved November 5, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ a b Petersmann, Ernst-Urlich (3 October 2008). "Laudatio for John H. Jackson (Degree Conferring Ceremony of the EUI)" (PDF). Badia Fiesolana: European University Institute. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Memorial: John H. Jackson'54". Princeton Alumni Weekly. April 20, 2016.
  6. ^ "In Memoriam - Professor John H. Jackson via Georgetown University Law Center". Archived from the original on 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  7. ^ a b "John Howard Jackson Obituary". Valley News, Ann Arbor, Michigan. December 10, 2015.
  8. ^ Trachman, Joel (1999). "John Jackson and the Founding of the World Trade Organization: Empiricism, Theory and Institutional Imagination" (PDF). Michigan Journal of International Law. 20 (2). Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  9. ^ Altman, Daniel (March 31, 2003). "Robert E. Hudec, 68, Expert on Global Trade Law, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  10. ^ Jackson, John H. (December 2003). "Changing Fundamentals of International Law and International Economic Law". Archiv des Völkerrechts. 41 (4): 435–448. doi:10.1628/0003892033034582. JSTOR 40800071.
  11. ^ "Doctor Honoris Causa of the EUI and Recipients of Doctor Honoris Causa Degrees". European University Institute (EUI). Retrieved 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. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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