Jack Jackson, PhD, JD

Jack Jackson, PhD, JD

 Role: Assistant Professor, Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA

  Contact: jacksoje@whitman.edu

  Research Interests:
Law and Society | U.S. Constitutional Law | Political Theory

Jack Jackson is currently an Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College. He received his Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from the Cornell Law School where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He is a co-editor, with Martha Fineman and Adam Romero of Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations (Ashgate Press). He has also published in History of the Present and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He is currently working on two projects: 1) an examination of the breakdown of the commitment to constitutionalism within large sectors of the political Right in the United States and 2) the relationship between the welfare state and political freedom with a particular focus on socializing health care. 

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