Published with the permission of Lee Ann Jackson.

John Jackson died on Saturday, 7 November, 2015; he was 83 years old. The World Trade Review pays tribute to John as a scholar, a teacher, and a friend. No-one who has worked on the world trading system has been untouched by John's work, and many of us have been profoundly shaped by his towering intellectual contributions, collegiality, and friendship. While John played a pivotal role in the creation of the World Trade Organization in the early 1990s, he also contributed to many more aspects of the field of international trade law, and international economic law more broadly. Indeed, he more or less founded the legal sub-discipline of international trade law.

The following tributes, which were co-ordinated by Steve Charnovitz, come from colleagues, students, admirers, friends, and family. They paint a picture of a delightful friend and colleague, and make clear the huge debt that all scholars of international trade and the trading system owe to John H Jackson. His vision of a rules-based trading system that nonetheless satisfies political imperatives, and an analytical approach that is broad and inclusive but still rigorous and based on detailed empirical evidence, will provide the template for our studies for decades to come.