Jack Jackson
Associate Professor and Chair of Politics
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Maxey Hall 217
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509-527-5061
Jack Jackson's teaching and research is at the intersection of political theory and U.S. constitutional law.
Professor Jackson received his J.D. from the Cornell Law School, where he was senior note editor for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, earned a Public Law Certificate, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was recipient of the Mark Rozance Memorial Award for best dissertation in the field of political theory.
In 2016 he held the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Constitutional and Political Theory at McGill University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Emory Law School's Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative, a Fellow at UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities, and an Ella Baker Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. For over 15 years he has served on the Board of Directors of the Homeless Action Center, a non-profit law firm in Berkeley, California.
Professor Jackson's scholarship focuses on political theory and law with a special emphasis on political theories of freedom, public law, feminist and queer theory, constitutionalism and democracy, and political theories of time.
Books
1) Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019; 2024)
2) Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations, (co-edited with Martha Fineman and Adam Romero, Routledge Press 2009)
Articles, Essays, Chapters
“Constitution,” in Democracies in America, eds. B. Emerson & G. Laski (Oxford University Press, 2023)
“States of Injury Today,” Classics Revisited Symposium, Polity, Vol. 54, No. 3 (2022).
“New Aristocracy: Political Wealth, Neofeudal Labor, and American Law,” South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 121, No. 2 (2022).
“Critical Dialogue” (with Corey Robin), Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 18, no. 4 (2020).
“BDS, Political Theory, and U.S. Constitutional Law," Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 18 (2019).
“Laboring Freedom,” in Vulnerability and the Legal Organization of Work, eds. J. Fineman and M. Fineman (Routledge Press, 2017).
"Not Yet an End: Neoliberalism, the Jurisprudence of Obamacare, and the Welfare-State Left," Theory & Event, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2016).
"Passing Class Notes," Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 27, No. 4 (2015).
“The Misfortune of Silence,” History of the Present vol. 3, no. 2 (2013).
“Unmapped Politics,” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (on-line symposium 2012).
“Proper Objects, Different Subjects, and Juridical Horizons in Radical Legal Critique,” in Feminist and Queer Legal Theory (eds. Fineman, Jackson and Romero, Routledge Press 2009) (co-authored with Tucker Culbertson).
“Erasures and Imaginings,” in Critical Sense (Spring 2005).
Book Reviews
Review of: The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics (Harvard University Press 2021), by Justice Stephen Breyer, in Law, Culture, Humanities, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2022).
Review of: Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? (Oxford University Press 2019), by Mark Golub, in Theory&Event, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2020).
Review of: Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics (Counterpress 2015), eds. T. Mulqueen and D. Matthews, in Law, Culture, and Humanities Vol. 12, No.3 (2016).
General Media
“Jettisoned: Justice Alito Gives Us a Narrow Rulebook Imprisoned in the Past,” n + 1, August 4, 2022
“Rule That is No Rule: The Supreme Court in Crisis,” n + 1, October 29, 2020
“Jack Jackson on Law Without Future,” interview with Oren Nimni and Vanessa A. Bee, Current Affairs, September 15, 2020
“America Without Law,” interview with Alexander Heffner of PBS’s The Open Mind, the interview was broadcast on PBS stations across the United States in late July/early August 2020
“Anti-Sitting Ordinance Would be a Calamity for Political Freedom,” in The Berkeley Daily Planet, June 8, 2012
“No Confidence,” in Possible Futures, Project of the Social Science Research Council, December 12, 2011