Jack has worked in the academy for more than thirty years and has been with the University of Michigan’s Office of the Vice President and General Counsel since 1999.  During the eleven years prior to this work, Jack had been an academic administrator and/or instructor at Macalester College, Saga Daigaku (Saga-Ken, Japan), and the University of Michigan.  He teaches at the University of Michigan’s Schools of Law and Information, as well as at the Ford School of Public Policy and the Marsal Family School of Education.  He is Chair Emeritus of the University of Michigan’s Council for Disability Concerns, where he served in that role for over seventeen years.

In 2009, Jack received the American Library Association’s “L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award,” as well as the First Decade Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA).  At the University of Michigan, he was a 2014 Distinguished Diversity Leadership recipient and, in 2016, he received the “Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change” from Center for the Education of Women.  In 2022, Jack was named a NACUA “Fellow of the Association” for “outstanding and extensive scholarship in higher education law over an extended period.”  He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of College and University Law.  Jack has also been a Spencer Fellow and a researcher at the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement.

Jack earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and Master’s in Higher Education from the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education.  Jack studied neuroscience at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.