February 2, 2012:
Robert H. Jackson in Albany, 1911-1912
Lecture celebrating the centennial
of Robert H. Jackson, Class of 1912, Albany Law School, Albany, NY
(click
here for streaming video).
January 25, 2012:
Nuremberg Trial, Nuremberg Film
Lecturer and panelist regarding the film, Nuremberg: Its
Lesson for Today, New York State Bar Association annual
meeting, New York, NY.
December 6, 2011:
Jackson & Nuremberg @ 65
Public Affairs Luncheon lecturer,
New York City Bar Association.
November 9, 2011:
Nuremberg
Panelist, Office of War Crimes
Issues, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
November 3, 2011: The
Nuremberg Trials
Lecture, Molloy College Institute for Interfaith Dialogue,
Rockville Centre, NY.
October 4, 2011:
Jackson in Buffalo, 1946
James McCormick Mitchell Lecture, Bringing Nuremberg
Home: Justice Jackson's Path Back to Buffalo, October 4,
1946, at State University of of New York at Buffalo (UB)
Law School (video excerpts here and here; blog
report here and
photos
here).
July 26, 2011: Women
& the Supreme Court
Introduced Dahlia Lithwick, who
delivered the seventh annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the
Supreme Court of the United States, Chautauqua Institution,
Chautauqua, NY (video
excerpts).
July 7, 2011: Conversation with Theodore B.
Olson
10:45 a.m. program, "Applied Ethics: Government and
the Search for the Common Good," The Amphitheater, Chautauqua Institution,
Chautauqua, NY.
July 6, 2011: Jackson's Closing at
Nuremberg
Lecture, "The War, the Slain, the Crimes:
Reflections on the 65th Anniversary of Justice Jackson's Closing
Argument at Nuremberg," at the Jackson Society annual dinner,
Robert H. Jackson
Center, Jamestown, NY.
July 4, 2011: Nuremberg & the Holocaust
Lecture, "Nuremberg & the Holocaust:
The City, the Laws, the Trials," in a Special Studies course,
Chautauqua Institution.
June 15, 2011: Nuremberg
Lecture at the Pennsylvania Appellate Judges' Conference,
Bedford Springs, PA.
May 1, 2011: Yom Hashoah lecture
Lecture, "Nuremberg... Judgment by Humanity,"
at the Buffalo Jewish
Community observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Temple Beth
Tzedek, Amherst, NY.
February 4, 2011: Jackson in the Katyn
Forest
Lecture at the conference, Katyn: Justice Delayed or
Justice Denied?, Case Western Reserve University School of Law,
Cleveland, OH (
full panel video) (video
excerpts).
December 15, 2010: The Nuremberg
Process, 1945-1949
Lecture to Office of Military Commissions
prosecutors, U.S. Department of Defense.
November 22, 2010: Nuremberg's Legacy
Panelist on Nuremberg's Legacy: The Impact of
the War Crimes Trials on International Criminal Law and Human
Rights, Deutsch-Amerikanisches
Institut, Nuremberg, Germany.
November 9, 2010: U.S. & U.S.S.R. at
Nuremberg
Lecture, Wartime Allies, Prosecuting and Judging
Colleagues, Geopolitical Rivals: U.S. Experiences with
U.S.S.R. Personnel at Nuremberg, 1945-46, at the
Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Russian Federation (MID RF) International Scientific
Conference, "The Nuremberg Trial: Historical and Law
Aspects," Moscow, Russian Federation.
November 2, 2010: Robert H. Jackson, New
Yorker
Historical Society for the Courts of the State of New
York's Stephen R. Kaye memorial lecture, Robert H.
Jackson: Lawyer, Justice, Nuremberger ... New Yorker, at
the New York City Bar Association, New York, NY.
October 7, 2010: Why Jackson?
Speaker at the Robert H. Jackson Center's 10th anniversary
dinner, Chautauqua, NY (click here for
highlights on YouTube).
September 21, 2010: Jackson & Executive
Power
Lecture, Federal Bar Council Inn of Court, New York,
NY.
August 25, 2010: Chautauqua's Robert H.
Jackson
Lecture, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
August 18, 2010: The
Supreme Court, 1937 & Today
Introduced Jeff Shesol, who delivered the
sixth annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of
the United States, Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
June 22,
2010: Justice Jackson on Stare Decisis &
Judging in Administrative Law
Lecture at the 40th anniversary
of the Commonwealth
Court of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA.
June 3, 2010: Robert
H. Jackson, Second Circuit Justice
Lecture at the Second Circuit
Judicial Conference, New Paltz, NY.
May 23, 2010: Eulogist
for Whitney R. Harris
Graham Chapel, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO.
May 11, 2010: Germany,
Law, Justice & the Holocaust
Commentator,
"Law, Justice & the Holocaust: Lessons for the Courts
Today," New York City Bar Association, New York, NY (click
here for video).
April 9, 2010: The
Holocaust & Nuremberg
Yom Hashoah lecture at Temple Beth
El, Bacon Raton, FL.
April 8, 2010: Justice
Jackson & Nuremberg
Lecture at Lynn University, Boca
Raton, FL.
February 19,
2010: Commissions, Tribunals,
Trials: The Substance of Justice from World War II to
Nuremberg to Today
Keynote lecture at a conference
on The Military Commissions Act of 2009, University of Toledo
College of Law, Toledo, OH.
November 13, 2009:
Robert H. Jackson Against Segregation: The Attorney General
& the D.C. Courthouse Library
Lecture at a symposium
sponsored by the Ronald
H. Brown Center for Civil Rights & Economic Development,
St. John's University School of Law, Queens, NY.
October 2, 2009: The
United States & the Nuremberg Trial
Lecture at an international
conference, "That
Four Great Nations....," at the Documentation Centre Nazi Party
Rally Grounds, Nuremberg, Germany.
August 31, 2009:
Katherine B. Fite, A Leading Lawyer in London &
Nuremberg (1945)
Keynote lecture at the
3rd annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs,
cosponsored by the American Society
of International Law, Syracuse University, the Robert H. Jackson
Center, Chautauqua Institution, Case Western Reserve
University and Washington University, at Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
August 3, 2009: The
Nuremberg Trials 60 Years Later
Lecture, Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
July 13, 2009:
Solicitors General at Chautauqua
Introduced Paul W. Clement, Esq., who delivered the
fifth annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of
the United States, Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
June 18, 2009: The
Life of Pennsylvanian Robert H. Jackson
Lecture at the Pennsylvania
Appellate Judges' Conference, Bedford Springs, PA.
June 11, 2009: Robert
H. Jackson & Nuremberg
Lecture, at the invitation of
Attorney General Holder, in the Attorney General's "American
History and the Law" lecture series. Attorney General's
conference room, United States Department of Justice, Washington,
D.C.
April 21, 2009:
Nuremberg & the Holocaust
Yom Hashoah lecture at Temple Adath
Yeshurun, Manchester, NH.
April 18, 2009:
Nuremberg Lawyers Then & Now
Lecture at the Association of
Defense Trial Attorneys' annual meeting, Scottsdale, AZ.
December 4, 2008:
Lemkin on Genocide from Nuremberg to the UN
Presented a paper, at an
international conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the
Genocide Convention, at the International Research &
Documentation Center for War Crimes Trials, Philipps-Universitat
Marburg, Germany.
November
20, 2008: The Nuremberg Trial
Speaker at the First Division Museum at
Cantigny, Wheaton, IL.
November 6, 2008:
Nuremberg Prosecutors & Their Legacy
Speaker at the Regis Bar
Association annual reception, Regis High School, New York,
NY.
August 25-26, 2008: Nuremberg &
Genocide, A Historical Perspective
Moderated a panel discussion with former Nuremberg prosecutors
Whitney R. Harris, Henry T. King, Jr., and Benjamin B. Ferencz, at
the 2d
annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
July 7, 2008: Studying "The Nine"
Introduced author Jeffrey Toobin, who delivered the
fourth annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture, Chautauqua Institution,
Chautauqua, NY. (
Video) (PDF file)
July 4, 2008: Justice Jackson, the Declaration
& the Constitution
Lecture at Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
July 1, 2008: Justice Jackson & Thurgood
Marshall
Spoke at the annual Jackson Society dinner, Robert H. Jackson Center,
Jamestown, NY.
March 13-15, 2008: Justice Jackson Study
Group
Participant in a Liberty Fund
colloquium, "Law and Liberty in the Judicial Practice of Robert H.
Jackson," Sausalito, CA.
February 29, 2008: Trying
Terrorists
Moderated a panel, "Trying Terrorists: Courts, Tribunals, or
Commissions?," at a conference, "The
National Security Constitution: New Threats, New Rules?,"
at St. John's University School of Law, New York, NY.
November 12, 2007: The Supreme Court &
Presidential Power
Panelist, with John W. Dean, Ambassador C. Boyden Gray, Anthony
Lewis, Beth Nolan and Nina Totenberg, at the Presidential
Libraries/National Archives conference, "The Presidency and
the Supreme Court," held at the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY. (
Video & transcript)
August 29, 2007: The Path from the Hague
(1907) to Nuremberg & Forward
Delivered the opening lecture at the International Humanitarian
Law Dialog on "The Laws of War: Past, Present, and
Future," cosponsored by the American Society of
International Law, Chautauqua Institution, Syracuse
University, the Robert H. Jackson Center and Washington
University. Chautauqua, NY.
July 25, 2007: Steel Seizure
(1952)
Panelist in a Historical Society of the District of Columbia
Circuit program, "The Steel
Seizure Case in Historical Perspective: Presidential Power in
Wartime," E. Barrett Prettyman United
States Courthouse, Washington, D.C.
July 9, 2007: Attorney General Jackson & "The
Federal Prosecutor"
Spoke at the annual Jackson Society dinner, Robert H. Jackson Center,
Jamestown, NY.
July 9, 2007: Solicitors General, Past &
Future, at Chautauqua Institution
Introduced attorney Seth P. Waxman, former Solicitor General of the
United States, who delivered the third annual Robert H.
Jackson Lecture, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
May 16, 2007: The Supreme Court's October
Term 1951
Co-moderated, with Professor Ken Gormley of Duquesne Law
School, a roundtable discussion with 1951-52 Supreme
Court law clerks, focusing on the Steel Seizure Cases and
other notable decisions and aspects of that Court Term.
Participants were attorneys and former O.T. 1951 law clerks
Charles C. Hileman III, Judge Abner J. Mikva, James C.N. Paul, Neal
P. Rutledge and Marshall L. Small. This roundtable,
co-sponsored by the Robert
H. Jackson Center, the Supreme Court Historical
Society and Chautauqua Institution, occurred at Chautauqua's
Lenna Hall, Chautauqua, NY.
April 14, 2007: The Nuremberg Trial and the
Holocaust
Yom Hashoah speaker, Young Israel of
West Hempstead.
November 20, 2006: Jackson with Soviet Allies at
Nuremberg
Spoke at the conference, "The Nuremberg Process:
The Lessons of History," sponsored by the Institute of
World History, Russian Academy of
Sciences, in Moscow, Russian Federation.
November 17, 2006: Harold Jackson
Adams
Spoke at the dedication of new exhibit and archive rooms
at the Robert H. Jackson
Center, Jamestown, NY. The inaugural exhibit
honors Justice Jackson's nephew Harold Jackson Adams.
November 13, 2006: The State of Supreme
Court History
Moderated a panel discussion with Maeva Marcus (director of the
Documentary History Project of the Supreme Court), James F. Simon
(New York Law School), Geoffrey R. Stone (University of
Chicago Law School) and William Wiecek (Syracuse
UniversityUniversity), at the New York City Bar
Association.
October 6, 2006: Jackson, Nuremberg, Taft and
Kennedy
Plenary session lecturer on Justice Jackson, Nuremberg, Senator
Robert A. Taft and Senator John F. Kennedy's Profiles in
Courage, in a 60th anniversary conference, "The
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today,"
at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
September 30, 2006: The Crucial Role of
Justice Robert H. Jackson
Speaker at a 60th anniversary conference, "Judgment at
Nuremberg," at Washington University School of Law, St. Louis,
MO.
July 25, 2006: Jackson & Germany, 1946 and
2006
Spoke at the annual Jackson Society dinner, Robert H. Jackson Center,
Jamestown, NY.
July 25, 2006: Justice Jackson and the New
York TImes
Introduced Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court report of the New York
Times, who delivered the
Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court, Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
April 28, 2006: Inside West Virginia State Board of Education v.
Barnette
Panel Moderator and Speaker, Robert H. Jackson
Center, Jamestown, NY.
April 22, 2006: The Story of Terry v. Ohio
(1968)
Speaker at the conference,
"Criminal Procedure Stories: Challenges in Constitutional
Criminal Procedure Past, Present and Future," in conjunction
with the publication of
Criminal Procedure Stories (Foundation Press), Harvard Law
School, Cambridge, MA.
March 30, 2006: The Legacy of
Nuremberg
Panel Speaker, "
The Pursuit of Justice and the Legacy of Nuremberg," Florida Holocaust
Museum, St. Petersburg, FL.
March 3, 2006: Supreme Court Nominees &
Federalism
Speaker, “The ‘Federalism Five’ as Supreme Court Nominees:
Where Was the Federalism?,” in Federalism
Past, Federalism Future: A Constitutional Law
Symposium, St. John's University School of Law, Queens, NY.
January 31, 2006: "Nuremberg @ 60: The
Ongoing Jackson Project"
Speaker,
Center on Global Legal Problems lecture series, Columbia University School of
Law.
January 19, 2006: "History of the Rehnquist
Court"
Moderated a
panel discussion at the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York.
November 18, 2005: “Nuremberg’s Forgotten Lead
Defendants"
Lectured on the 1945-46 prosecution of Nazi
Organizations. Sokol Colloquium on Private International
Law, University
of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA.
November 3, 2005: "Jackson at
Nuremberg"
Spoke at the Harvard Law School/Facing History and Ourselves
conference, "Pursuring
Human Dignity: The Legacies of Nuremberg for International
Law, Human Rights & Education," Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA.
September 28, 2005: "Architect
and Audience(s): Jackson's Nuremberg"
Delivered keynote lecture at the conference, "Sixty Years
After the Nuremberg Trials: Crimes Against Humanity and
Peace," Athenaeum Hotel, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua,
NY.
July 18, 2005: "One Good Man": The
Jacksonian Shape of Nuremberg
Spoke in Nuremberg, Germany, at a conference, "Judging Nuremberg:
The Laws, The Rallies, The Trials -- Returning to Courtroom 600 on
the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials," sponsored by the
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.
July 14, 2005: Nuremberg Prosecutor Robert H.
Jackson
Spoke at the Harry S.
Truman Library & Museum about Jackson, who President
Truman appointed on May 2, 1945, to prosecute the senior surviving
Nazi war criminals. Independence, MO.
July 12 & 13, 2005: Justice Jackson and
Nuremberg
Lectured to school teachers participating in a Teaching
American History grant-sponsored program on the Nuremberg
trials and their legacy, at Jamestown Community College,
Jamestown, NY, and St. Bonaventure
University, Olean, NY.
July 11, 2005: 60 Years Ago in London: The
Path to Nuremberg
Spoke at the annual Jackson
Society dinner, Robert
H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
July 11, 2005: Robert H. Jackson, Geoffrey R.
Stone and James Parker Hall
Introduced Professor
Geoffrey Stone, who delivered the inaugural Robert
H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court, Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
May 18, 2005: The Justices' Law Clerks
on Brown v. Board of Education II
Moderated a Robert H. Jackson Center
50th anniversary roundtable discussion with law clerks who worked
for four of the Supreme Court
Justices who directed in
Brown v. Board of Education II that children should be admitted
to previously-segregated "public schools on a racially
nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed...." The
former law clerks who participated were
Earl E. Pollock (law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren),
Gordon
B. Davidson (law clerk to Justice Stanley Reed),
Daniel J. Meador (law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black),
and E. Barrett
Prettyman, Jr. (law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan).
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
April 21, 2005: The Nuremberg Trials, the
Holocaust, and Imagination
Holocaust
Remembrance Day keynote speaker, Bergen Community
College, Paramus, NJ.
March 28, 2005: Understanding the Choice of
Jackson for Nuremberg
Speaker at a conference,
"The Nuremberg Trials: A Reappraisal and Their
Legacy," sponsored by the Program in Holocaust and Human
Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York
City.
February 15, 2005: Justice Jackson, Thomas J. Dodd
& Nuremberg
Introductory speaker,
"From Justice Jackson to Thomas J. Dodd to Nuremberg,"
preceding a
lecture by Senator Christopher Dodd (CT) about the experiences
of his father as United States Executive Trial Counsel prosecuting
surviving Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal
at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-46. This event, cosponsored
by the Supreme Court
Historical Society and the Robert H. Jackson Center,
occurred in the courtroom of the Supreme
Court of the United States, Washington, D.C.
December 1, 2004: Justice Jackson at
Nuremberg
Speaker, "International Justice? The Roots and Legacies
of the Nuremberg Trials,"
The Harvard Law School/Facing History & Ourselves
Program. Harvard
Law School, Cambridge, MA. (Click here for
streaming video of this event.)
November 15, 2004: Albany in the Life
Trajectory of Robert H. Jackson
Keynote speaker, "A Tribute to Justice Robert H.
Jackson" (1892-1954; Albany Law School 1911-12). Albany
Law School, Albany, NY.
November 6, 2004: Justice Jackson in Korematsu v.
United States (1944)
Speaker, "A Civilian Facing the Military in Wartime: Justice
Jackson's Korematsu Dissent," at a conference, Judgments Judged & Wrongs
Remembered: Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties
Cases of World War II on Their 60th Anniversary, Japanese
American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
October 28, 2004: Brown v. Board of
Education
Keynote speaker, "The Et Al's in Brown, et al. v. Board of
Education, et al.," 28th Annual Statewide Conference on Law-Related
and Civic Education,
New York State Bar Association Law, Youth & Citizenship
Program, Bolton Landing, NY.
October 18, 2004: Robert H. Jackson and
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spoke about Justice Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press, 2003), the previously unknown and
never-published memoir that Professor Barrett discovered,
edited and introduced. The Harvard Club of New York
City.
October 3, 2004: Robert H. Jackson Memorial
Service
Speaker at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Jamestown, NY, the
site of Jackson's funeral on October 13, 1954. (Click here for an
event description.)
June 26, 2004: Roosevelt Reading
Festival
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press). Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library & Museum, Hyde Park, NY.
April 29, 2004: Linda and Cheryl Brown
Introduced a Robert H. Jackson Center
forum with Linda Brown Thompson and Cheryl Brown Henderson.
They are daughters of
Brown v. Board of Education lead plaintiff Oliver Brown,
whose challenge to the constitutionality of segregated
elementary schools in Topeka, Kansas was won in
the Supreme Court of the United States on May 17, 1954.
Amphitheater, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. (Click
here for streaming video of this event.)
April 28, 2004: The Justices' Law Clerks
on Brown v. Board of Education
Moderated a 50th anniversary roundtable discussion with law clerks
who worked for four of the nine Supreme Court Justices who in May
1954 unanimously, in
Brown v. Board of Education, held that segregated public
schools were unconstitutional. The former law clerks
who participated were Earl E. Pollock (law clerk to Chief
Justice Fred Vinson and, beginning in fall 1953,
his successor, Chief Justice Earl Warren),
Frank E.A. Sander (law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter), E. Barrett Prettyman,
Jr. (law clerk to Justice Robert H. Jackson), and John David
Fassett (law clerk to Justice Stanley Reed). Robert H. Jackson Center,
Jamestown, NY.
(Click here for streaming video of this event.)
April 12, 2004: President Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Speaker at the FDR Remembrance Ceremony, on the 59th
anniversary of the President's death, at his gravesite in
the Rose Garden adjacent to Springwood, the Roosevelt family
home. Home of
Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New
York.
February 26, 2004: The Army & Navy Club,
Washington, DC
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press).
January 6, 2004: Franklin D. Roosevelt as
Lawyer-Hero
Speaker, Association of American Law Schools annual meeting,
Atlanta, GA.
December 18, 2003: Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington, DC
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press).
Click here for an event report.
November 13, 2003: New School University, New York
City
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press).
November 8, 2003: Miami Book
Festival
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press), which Professor
Barrett discovered, edited and introduced. (Click
here for C-SPAN 2 "BookTV" streaming video of this event.)
November 1, 2003: Chicago Humanities
Festival
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press).
October 25, 2003: Roosevelt Institute, Warm
Springs, GA
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press).
October 19, 2003: Politics & Prose,
Washington, DC
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press).
October 10, 2003: Robert H. Jackson as
Attorney General, 1940-41
Speaker, Conference on Loyalty and Treason, University of North
Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC.
October 3, 2003: Justice Jackson's 1950s Law
Clerks
Moderated a Jackson
Center roundtable discussion of C. George Niebank, Jr., Donald
Cronson and E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., who discussed Justice
Robert H. Jackson. Each of these lawyers was a law clerk
to Justice Jackson at the Supreme Court during the
1950s. Elizabeth S. Lenna Theater, Chautauqua Institution,
Chautauqua, NY.
September 17, 2003: Presidential
Power
Panelist, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA.
July 25, 2003: "I Hate War"
Introduced the first showing of complete film of President
Roosevelt's famous August 1936 speech, in the location
where he gave it. Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua,
NY.
July 23, 2003: Justice Jackson on Liberty,
Security and Law
10:45 a.m. lecturer, Chautauqua Institution
Amphitheater, Chautauqua, NY. (
Click here to hear a free excerpt, and also to purchase
and download, a copy of this lecture.)
July 20, 2003: "Judgment at
Nuremberg"
Commentary following a screening of the film, Chautauqua
Institution Cinema.
May 16, 2003: Chief Justice
Rehnquist
Introduced the Chief Justice of the United States, who was
principal speaker at the dedication of the Robert H. Jackson Center
in Jamestown, NY. (Click
here for streaming video of this event.) Following
the dedication, Professor Barrett spoke about Justice Jackson and
his 1952-53 Supreme Court law clerk William Rehnquist at a luncheon
reception at Chautauqua Institution’s Athenaeum Hotel.
February 21, 2003: Justice Jackson And
Nuremberg
Faculty Workshop Speaker, "Justice Robert H. Jackson's Nuremberg,"
Fordham University School of Law, New York City.
November
22, 2002: The Steel Seizure Case
Participated in "President Truman & the Steel
Seizure Case: A 50-Year Retrospective." Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 23, 2002: Justice Jackson's 1940s Law
Clerks
Moderated a roundtable discussion of Phil C. Neal, Murray Gartner
and James M. Marsh, who discussed Justice Robert H. Jackson.
Each of these lawyers was a law clerk
to Justice Jackson at the Supreme Court during the
1940s. Robert H.
Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
September 26, 2002: Fred T.
Korematsu
Moderated panel discussion with Fred Korematsu, the U.S. citizen of
Japanese descent who litigated and lost the landmark 1944 Supreme
Court case challenging the constitutionality of U.S. military
internment orders during World War II and then, in 1983, won legal
vindication when his criminal conviction was dismissed. This
panel followed a screening of the documentary film, "Of Civil
Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story," and
Professor Barrett's introductory remarks about Justice Robert H.
Jackson's dissenting, and now historic, opinion in the Korematsu
case. The panelists were Fred Korematsu, his wife Kathryn
Korematsu, and the film's double Emmy Award-winning director, Eric
Paul Fournier. Elizabeth S. Lenna Theater, Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
July 20, 2002: Jackson Portrait
Dedication
Speaker at the dedication of Lurabel Long Colburn's portrait of
Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Jackson Center,
Jamestown, NY.
May 1, 2002: Jackson & Law
Day
February 24, 2002: Judge A. Leon Higginbotham,
Jr.
Panelist, "Higginbotham: Race, Values
& the American Legal Process -- A Scholarly Working
Conference," Yale University, New Haven, CT.
February 9, 2002: Criminal Law & Civil
Rights
Moderator of a panel on "Criminal Justice: Federal & State
Perspectives on Civil Rights," as part of the Black Law Students'
Association (SJU BLSA) Conference on Civil Rights in the 21st
Century, St. John's University School of Law, New York City.
The panelists were New York Police Department Lt. Eric Adams
(President of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care), former
United States Attorney Zachary Carter (E.D.N.Y., and now a partner
in Dorsey & Whitney LLP), Kings County District Attorney
Charles J. Hynes, New York State Attorney General Elliott Spitzer,
and Acting United States Attorney Alan Vinegrad (E.D.N.Y.).
February 7, 2002: Whitney Harris
Tribute
Remarks at the dedication of the Whitney R. Harris
Institute for Global Legal Studies at the Washington
University School of Law, St. Louis, MO. Washington
University subsequently published a monograph based on these
remarks: Postscript: Justice Robert H. Jackson on
"My dear Whit," in the Lectures & Occasional Papers 2002 -
No. 1, Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies,
Washington University School of Law (Spring 2002).)
November 30, 2001: Jackson &
Ambition
Faculty workshop speaker, "Bob Jackson for President, Bob Jackson
for Chief Justice: The Biographical Significance of Destinations
Not Reached," University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel
Hill, NC.
October 25, 2001: Justice Jackson &
Nuremberg
Lecturer, "Justice Robert H. Jackson and the Path of Nuremberg,"
Elderhostel, Elizabeth S. Lenna Theater, Chautauqua Institution,
Chautauqua, NY.
October 24, 2001: Nuremberg
Prosecutors
Moderator, "With Justice Jackson at Nuremberg," a roundtable
discussion with former Nuremberg prosecutors Whitney R. Harris,
Henry J. King, Jr. and Bernard D. Meltzer, at the Robert H. Jackson
Center, Jamestown, NY.
July 18, 2001: Robert Jackson,
Hero
Platform Speaker, "The Heroic Example of Robert H. Jackson," in the
Hall of Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. (
Click here to hear a free excerpt, and also to purchase
and download, a copy of this lecture.)
April 20, 2001: After Independent
Counsel
Panelist, "Independent Counsel: A Roundtable," Midwest Political
Science Association annual meeting, Chicago.
Januiary 28, 2000: Prosecutors &
Forgiveness
Member of a Panel Discussion on "Forgiveness in the Criminal Law,"
at "A Symposium on The Role of Forgiveness in the Law," Fordham
University School of Law, New York. An edited transcript of these
proceedings is published in 27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1349,
1373-93 (June 2000).
January 18, 1999: Investigating
Presidents
Speaker, "Presidents and Independent Counsel," Berkeley College
Senior and Associate Fellows, Woolsey Hall, Yale University.
November 6, 1998: Federal
Prosecutors
Member of a Panel Discussion on the Regulation and Ethical
Responsibilities of Federal Prosecutors, at "Symposium on the
Changing Role of the Federal Prosecutor," Fordham University School
of Law, New York. An edited transcript of this discussion is
published in 26 Fordham Urban Law Journal 737-65 (March 1999).
Updated February 7, 2012.