Howell Jackson

James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Federal Budget Policy
• International Finance
• Regulation of Financial Institutions and Financial Markets
• Social Security Reform

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Pensions and Social Security
• Regulation of Financial Institutions
• Securities Regulation, Investment Companies

Education

• Brown University B.A. 1976, Economic Development of Modern China
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1982
• Harvard Business School M.B.A. 1982

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1989
• Professor of Law, 1994
• Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law, 1999-2004
• Associate Dean for Research and Special Programs, 2001-2003
• Vice Dean for Administration and Budget, 2003-2006
• James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law, 2004
• Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law, 2009-2010

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Biographical Statement

Howell Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests include financial regulation, international finance, consumer protection, federal budget policy, and entitlement reform. Professor Jackson has served as a consultant to the United States Treasury Department, the United Nations Development Program, and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund. He is a member of the National Academy on Social Insurance, a trustee of the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF) and its affiliated TIAA-CREF investment companies, a member of the panel of outside scholars for the NBER Retirement Research Center, and a senior editor for Cambridge University Press Series on International Corporate Law and Financial Regulation. Professor Jackson frequently testifies before Congress and consults with government agencies on issues of financial regulation. He is co-editor of Fiscal Challenges: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Budget Policy (Cambridge University Press 2008), co-author of Analytical Methods for Lawyers (Foundation Press 2003) and Regulation of Financial Institutions (West 1999), and author of numerous scholarly articles. Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty in 1989, Professor Jackson was a law clerk for Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall and practiced law in Washington, D.C. Professor Jackson received J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University in 1982 and a B.A. from Brown University in 1976.

Representative Publications

• Campbell, John C., Howell Jackson, Brigitte Madrian & Peter Tufano. "Consumer Financial Protection," 25 Journal of Economic Perspectives 91 (2011).
  
• Jackson, Howell. "Loan-Level Disclosure in Securitization Transactions: A Problem with Three Dimensions" in Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance (Brookings Institution Press, 2011).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Jackson, Howell & Mark J. Roe. "Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence," 93 Journal of Financial Economics 207 (2009).
  
• Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy (Elizabeth Garrett, Elizabeth Graddy & Howell Jackson eds., Cambridge University Press 2008).
  (paperback edition in 2009)
  
• Jackson, Howell & Eric Pan. "Regulatory Competition in International Securities Markets: Evidence from Europe - Part II," 3 Virginia Law & Business Review 207 (2008).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Jackson, Howell & Laurie Burlingame. "Kickbacks or Compensation: The Case of Yield Spread Premiums," 12 Stan. J. Law, Bus. 289 (2007).
  
• Jackson, Howell. "Variation in the Intensity of Financial Regulation: Preliminary Evidence and Potential Implications," 24 Yale Journal on Regulation 101 (2007).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Jackson, Howell. "Accounting for Social Security and its Reform," 41 Harvard Journal on Legislation 59 (2004).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Jackson, Howell. "The Role of Credit Rating Agencies in the Establishment of Capital Standards for Financial Institutions in a Global Economy" in The Challenges Facing Financial Regulation 311 (Eilis Ferran & Charles A. E. Goodhart eds., Hart, 2001).
  
• Jackson, Howell & Edward Symons. The Regulation of Financial Institutions: Cases and Materials (West Publications 1999).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Jackson, Howell. "Regulation of a Multisectored Financial Services Industry: An Exploratory Essay," 77 Washington University Law Quarterly 319 (1999).
  

Bibliography

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