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John H. Jackson (1932–2015)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald McRae
Donald McRae*
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University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; AJIL Board of Editors
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Extract

It is with the deepest regret that the Journal records the passing of John Jackson—teacher, scholar, contributor to this Journal and longtime member of its editorial board, and pioneer of international trade and economic law. The following is a tribute to John in recognition of his immense contribution to international law.

In 1969, World Trade and the Law of GATT was published. In some sense, this was the beginning of what is known today as international trade law. Based on meticulous research into documents of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which hitherto had barely seen the light of day and certainly not the eyes of scholars, the work was to be”pragmatic” and designed to address the “intricate complexity” of the law of GATT and to be of use to “the government or GATT official, the private attorney and the legal scholar.” The scale was ambitious but characteristically expressed in modest terms.

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In Memoriam
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 110 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 260 - 268
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 John H. Jackson, World Trade and the Law of Gatt (1969).

2 Id. at ix.

3 Kenneth W. Dam, The Gatt: Law and International Economic Organization (1970).

4 Andreas F. Lowenfeld, 65 AJIL 853, 854 (1971) (book review).

5 Timothy C. Ridley, 12 Harv. Int’l L. J. 367, 370 (1971) (book review).

6 Walter Hollis, 3 Law & Pol’y Int’l Bus. 229 (1971) (book review); John W. Evans, 71 Colum. L. Rev. 185 (1971) (book review).

7 Hudec, Robert E., The Expedition to Darkest Geneva, 20 Mich. J. Int’l L. 121, 123 (1999)Google Scholar.

8 Jackson, World Trade Law, supra note 1, at 5.

9 Jackson, John H., Davey, William J. & Sykes, Alan O. Jr., Legal Problems of International Economic Relations: Cases, Materials and Text on the National and International Regulation of Transnational Economic Relations (6th ed. 2013)Google Scholar.

10 Jackson, World Trade Law, supra note 1, at 5.

11 Id.

12 Appellate Body Report, United States–Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, WTO Doc. WT DS58/AB/R (adopted Nov. 6, 1998).

13 Jackson, World Trade Law, supra note 1, at 8.

14 Hudec, supra note 7, at 123.

15 Jackson, John H., The Legal Framework of United Nations Financing: Peacekeeping and Penury, 51 Cal. L. Rev. 79 (1963)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

16 Jackson, World Trade Law, supra note 1, at 772.

17 Id. at 776–80.

18 Id. at 780.

19 Jackson, John H., The Crumbling Institutions of the Liberal Trade System, 12 J. World Trade L. 93 (1978)Google Scholar.

20 John H. Jackson, Restructuring the Gatt System (1990).

21 Jackson liked to contrast the statement attributed to former Speaker Tip O’Neill that “all politics is local” with the statement of Peter Drucker that “all economics are international.” Jackson, John H., The World Trading System: Law and Policy of International Economic Relations 351 (2d ed. 1997)Google Scholar.

22 Kennedy, David, The International Style in Postwar Law and Policy: John Jackson and the Field of International Economic Law, 10 AM. U. J. Int’l L. & Pol’y 671, 682 (1995)Google Scholar.

23 Alan Deardorff, Remarks on John H. Jackson for a Celebratory Dinner at the University of Michigan Law School, Feb. 25, 1998, 20 Mich. J. Int’l L. 103, 104 (1999).

24 Cottier, Thomas, A Tribute to Professor John Jackson, 20 Mich. J. Int’l L. 97, 98 (1999)Google Scholar.

25 See, e.g., Jackson, John H., The Jurisprudence of International Trade: The DISC Case in GATT, 72 AJIL 747 (1978)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Jackson, John H., National Treatment Obligations and Nontariff Barriers, 10 Mich. J. Int’l L. 207 (1989)Google Scholar.

26 And thus Lowenfeld could describe the book as a “hornbook.”

27 Jackson, John H., The WTO “Constitution” and Proposed Reforms: Seven “Mantras” Revisited, 4 J. Int’l Econ. L. 67 (2001)Google Scholar.

28 Jackson, John H., A Trade Lawyer’s Brief Comments on the Financial Crisis, 34 Int’l L. 207 (2000)Google Scholar.

29 International Law in Financial Regulation and Monetary Affairs (John H.Jackson, Thomas Cottier & Rosa M. Lastra eds., 2012).

30 Kennedy, supra note 22.

31 Id. at 671.

32 Id. at 674.

33 Id. at 681.

34 Id. at 692.

35 John H. Jackson, Sovereignty, The WTO and Changing Fundamentals of International Law 41–42 (2006).

36 Id. at 18.

37 Jackson, Sovereignty, supra note 35, at 70–78.

38 Id. at 7.