While at Yale, Professor Jackson served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to Judge Murray Gurfein (U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit), Morris Lasker (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York), and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, the Supreme Court, and Governmental Immunities. She is co-author with Professor Mark Tushnet of a coursebook on Comparative Constitutional Law. Her articles on federalism, sovereign immunity and the 11th Amendment, and gender equality have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Georgetown Law review, and other scholarly journals . Her research interests also include gender bias, comparative constitutional law, and federalism. She is on the D.C. Bar Board of Governors, and was a co-chair of the Special Committee on Gender of the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias (1992-95), and a member of the D.C. Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures (1992-98).