Professor Jackson Sow teaches and writes in the areas of contracts, constitutional law, international law, human rights, post-structuralism, political economy, visual culture, and rhetoric. Her most recent works were published in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review Online, and the University of California Irvine Law Review. Professor Jackson Sow earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, her Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her B.A. from Northwestern University. Immediately prior to joining the academy, Professor Jackson Sow served as a Leadership in Government Fellow for the Open Society Foundations and a 2020 Fellow for the Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent hosted by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and she is was also a 2024 awardee of the Open Society Foundation’s Fellowship Advancement Fund. She was previously a law clerk to the late Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr. in the Eastern District of New York, and the late Honorable Damon J. Keith on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
