University of Richmond Law Professor Receives Grant Support For Research on Black and Indigenous Legal Issues

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — University of Richmond law professor Marissa Jackson Sow has received $27,000 from the Institute of International Education to support her research on Black and Indigenous legal issues.

An expert on contracts, international law, and feminist legal theory, Jackson Sow will use the IIE funding to support her work on an edited volume and making all materials she is using for her projects freely available to the public.

“I am developing repositories of legal materials that focus on Black and Indigenous people and curating digital installations that will further amplify Black women’s human rights histories,” said Jackson Sow. “I look forward to creating these scholarly resources and making them accessible for fellow teachers, scholars, community members, and within the University of Richmond community.”

Jackson Sow earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before joining the faculty at UR in 2022, she also served as a Leadership in Government Fellow for the Open Society Foundations and a 2020 Fellow for the Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent hosted by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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