Margaret Moore Jackson
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Professor of Law & Kenneth and Frances Swenson Professor, School of Law
- Evidence, Housing Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Civil Pretrial Practice
Contact Info
- Email: margaret.jackson@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.2276
- Dept: 701.777.2961
Office Address
Law School Room 201
215 Centennial Drive Stop 9003
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9003
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Margaret Moore Jackson teaches Evidence, Housing Discrimination, and Employment Discrimination. She publishes and presents in the areas of fair housing, sexual harassment, and legal education. You can read her scholarship on her SSRN page.
Professor Jackson is a member of the Bar in California, North Dakota, and Minnesota. She earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1992. Her legal experience includes clerking at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) in Berkeley, California and with the Redevelopment Agency of San Francisco. Prior to that, she double-majored in English and Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1988. She was a UNC Lorelei during all four of her years in Chapel Hill.
Professor Jackson has served in leadership capacities with the American Association of Law Schools, on the board of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA), and on the board of Legal Aid of North Dakota. She co-founded the nonprofit High Plains Fair Housing Center, which is the only Fair Housing Initiatives Program serving the state of North Dakota.
- Evidence
- Housing Discrimination
- Employment Discrimination
- Civil Pretrial Practice
Selected Publications:
Embrace the Chaos: Contributing to Experience in the Face of AI and NextGen, 45 Pace L. Rev. 405 (2024) (Arguing that law faculty should infuse their courses with an experiential credit to teach new skills NextGen will test, cope with the disruption of generative AI, and provide meaningful assistance to community organizations).
Forced Out of Enforcement: How the 'No Felons' Rule Hamstrings Fair Housing, 91 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 237 (2022) (Asserting the regulation excluding felons from fair housing testing unjustifiably reinforces racial disparities and hinders enforcement of the federal Fair Housing Act).
An Intentional Heart – A Tribute to Professor Patti Alleva, 94 North Dakota Law Review 320-23 (2019). (Commentating on the contributions of University of North Dakota School of Law Professor Alleva, one of twenty-six law professors studied in What the Best Law Teachers Do.)
From Seminar to Simulation: Wading Out to the Third Wave, 19 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 127-166 (2016). (Asserting that new ABA Standards requiring experiential education and defining simulation courses as fulfilling that requirement offer not only a means of teaching doctrine and skills, but also a way to inculcate applied professional values, such as the commitment to law as a tool for social justice.)
Fair Housing in Boom Times and Beyond, 91 North Dakota Law Review 513-546 (2015). (Arguing that federal and state antidiscrimination laws apply to oil-boom housing, lax enforcement harms individuals and communities in North Dakota, and the lull in the oil boom provides a much-needed opportunity to ensure fair housing opportunity.)
Preaching to the Trier: Why Judicial Understanding of Law School Clinics is Essential to Continued Progress in Legal Education, 17 Clinical Law Review 515-561 (2011) (with Daniel M. Schaffzin). (Arguing that barriers to judges’ understanding and support of clinical education have a negative impact on student learning and client interests; proposing strategies aimed at enhancing judicial understanding of the clinical mission and its role in legal education.)
Confronting “Unwelcomeness” From the Outside: Using Case Theory to Tell the Stories of Sexually-Harassed Women, 14 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 61-95 (2007). (Asserting that law students should be engaged in framing outsider client narratives to counter the adverse effects of the unwelcome conduct inquiry and undermine existing stereotypes; proposing a model for inculcating these theories and techniques in a law school classroom.)
A Half-Hearted Invitation: Welcoming Sexual Harassment in Minnesota, 33 William Mitchell Law Review 117-161 (2006). (Analyzing whether Minnesota’s treatment of the unwelcomeness element supports or undermines the goals of progressivism in sexual harassment law.)
A Different Voicing of Unwelcomeness: Relational Reasoning and Sexual Harassment, 81 University of North Dakota Law Review 739-769 (2005). (Asserting that when plaintiffs use relational reasoning to resolve moral dilemmas, the rights-based unwelcomeness construct places them at a distinct disadvantage and prevents sexual harassment law from effectively eliminating discrimination in the workplace.)
J.D., University of San Francisco (1992)
B.A., University of North Carolina (1988)