Craig Jackson is a law professor at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, in Houston. He studied at Rice University, The University of Texas School of Law, and the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Craig has taught international law, U.S. foreign policy and the Constitution, and constitutional law. He served as a co-director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute for International and Immigration Law, which hosted a constitutional and international law symposium observing the 10th anniversary of the attacks on 9/11.
In 1998, Craig was a visiting fellow at Wolfson College and a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Center for International Law, both of Cambridge University, England. His teaching and scholarship interests have been in the areas of international law and constitutional law, with particular emphasis on the intersection of the two legal systems and the effect each has on the other. Among his activities in this area are a series of articles, op-ed pieces, and testimony before the Texas Legislature addressing the impact of federalism on U.S. obligations under international law with regard to the prosecution of capital crimes against foreign nationals arrested without consular notification.
He is the author of numerous articles on international law, civil rights, and constitutional law, and has been published in Yale Law and Policy Law Review, the University of Iowa's Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, North Carolina Journal and International Law and Commercial Regulation, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, Capital University Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania's Journal of Constitutional Law.