Jackson Willis is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. He received a Bachelors in Humanities from Yale with Exceptional Distinction and the James Andrew Haas Prize.

At Yale Law, Jackson serves as the managing editor for the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and the teaching fellow for PHIL 316: Thought Experiments. He has previously volunteered for Brooklyn Legal Services in the Tenant Rights Coalition and currently works for the Appeals and Opinions Bureau under NY Solicitor General, Barbara Underwood. Prior to law school, he served in the Peace Corps Response (Guinea) and completed graduate study in development economics at Oxford.

Jackson is interested in public art installations, the piano performances of James C. Booker III, and whether the pitching of the Tampa Bay Rays will carry them into the postseason. He was born and raised in St. Petersburg (“St. Pete” to its friends), Florida.