Margaret Moore Jackson
Margaret Moore Jackson
Kenneth & Frances Swenson Professor of Law
margaret.jackson@email.und.edu
After obtaining her B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1988, Professor Jackson earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1992. She was selected as a staff member for the University of San Francisco Law Review and as a Certified Law Student with the Civil Rights Litigation Clinic, where she engaged in civil rights and police misconduct litigation (See Orozco v. County of Yolo, 814 F.Supp. 885 (E.D. Cal. 1993)). She also was awarded Best Brief in the 1990 Moot Court competition.
Following graduation, Professor Jackson practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she developed expertise in employment law, disability law, and tort defense. As an attorney with the Oakland, California firm of Erickson, Beasley, Hewitt & Wilson, she represented individuals and government entities in personal injury, employment discrimination, and eminent domain litigation.
After eleven years of practice, Professor Jackson joined the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2003, where she teaches in the Housing & Employment Law Clinic. She writes and lectures in the areas of sexual harassment law and legal pedagogy. Professor Jackson serves on the national board of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) and on CLEA’s Implementation Committee for Best Practices for Legal Education. She also advises UND’s Public Interest Law Students Association (PILSA), an organization that actively promotes awareness and commitment to public interest legal issues. In 2007, she was involved in initiating the Randy H. Lee American Inn of Court and was honored with a Community Service Award from the State Bar Association of North Dakota.
Professor Jackson is a member of the Bar in the states of California, North Dakota, and Minnesota. She is admitted to the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, and the United States Federal District Court for the Northern District of the State of California.