Jackson has wrapped up his clerkship in Montana for Judge Sidney R. Thomas on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and is now clerking for Judge Stephen A. Higginson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. He graduated from Yale Law School. He was a 2019 Mitchell Scholar and studied Criminology and Criminal Justice at University College Dublin. Jackson’s academic and research interests focus on the criminal justice system, specifically its shortcomings in the United States, and the role restorative justice can play in the legal process. He has conducted research on prison labor conditions in the southern U.S. states during the 19th century and on the 42 exoneration cases that have occurred in North Carolina since 1989. He was a founding member of Duke’s Restorative Justice Working Group and the Undergraduate Director of Duke Law School’s Innocence Project. He previously interned at the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Criminal Justice Reform practice group, where he worked on a case alleging that Louisiana's public defender system fails to protect the rights of indigent defendants who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Jackson is a graduate of Duke University where he obtained a degree in English.