Vicki C. Jackson is the Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law at
Harvard Law School. ''
The New York Times
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'' has described her as "an authority on state-federal questions".
Jackson received her BA, ''
summa cum laude'', from
Yale University
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in 1972. She earned her JD from
Yale Law School
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in 1975, where she was an editor of the ''Yale Law Journal''.
She was a
clerk
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for
Thurgood Marshall
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of the
United States Supreme Court
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.
Jackson was an associate and then partner at the firm of Rogovin, Huge & Lenzner in Washington, D.C. She served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the
Office of Legal Counsel
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at the US Department of Justice. She taught and held several administrative positions at
Georgetown University Law Center
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from 1985 to 2011.
On December 11, 2012, the United States Supreme Court appointed Jackson as ''
amicus curiae'' in ''
United States v. Windsor
''United States v. Windsor'', 570 U.S. 744 (2013), is a landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case concerning same-sex marriage. The Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denied federal recognition o ...
'' to argue an unrepresented position relating to the legal standing of two of the parties.
Her publications include the book ''Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era.''
See also
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References
External links
Faculty Site at Harvard Law
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Harvard Law School faculty
Georgetown University Law Center faculty
Yale Law School alumni
Yale College alumni
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