Jacqueline E. Ross
Professor
Phone: 217-333-0356
Email: jeross1@illinois.edu
B.A., J.D. University of Chicago
Courses
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Civil ProcedureA respected scholar in the fields of evidence and criminal law and procedure, Professor Ross is currently engaged in a comparative study of undercover policing in the United States, Italy, Germany, and France. She has also received a Fulbright Research Fellowship and a grant from France's Agence Nationale de Recherche to fund a new research project to study policing in the immigrant communities of the United States and France.
Professor Ross has published on this and other topics in both American and European journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Annual Review of Law and the Social Sciences, and the Italian journals Diritto e Giustizia (Law and Justice) and Giurisprudenza di Merito (Jurisprudence of Note.) Her article, "Impediments to Transnational Cooperation in Undercover Operations: A Comparative Study of the United States and Italy," 52 American Journal of Comparative Law 569 (2004), won the Edward Wise Senior Scholar Prize from the American Society of Comparative Law for best article in comparative criminal procedure. Her essay, "The Place of Covert Policing in Democratic Societies: A Comparative Study of the United States and Germany," 55 American Journal of Comparative Law 493 (2007), was awarded the University of Illinois College of Law's Carroll P. Hurd Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship (2008).
Ross is the Co-Founder and Co-Director (with Mathias Reimann and Kim Lane Scheppele) of the Michigan-Illinois-Princeton Workshop on Comparative Law Work in Progress. She is also the Co-organizer with Thierry Delpeuch (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) of a transatlantic seminar series on Transnational Intelligence and Policing in Immigrant Communities, which will alternate over the next three years between the Institut D'Études Politiques de Paris and the University of Illinois College of Law.
Professor Ross received her B.A. degree with honors from the University of Chicago. She was an articles editor for the University of Chicago Law Review and graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School.
Ross served as law clerk to the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She then spent nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago and Boston, where she acquired extensive federal trial experience and argued appeals before the First and Seventh Circuits. She is fluent in German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
She teaches in the areas of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Civil Procedure.
