Essays, Etc.
Betty's Spirit: A Eulogy for Elizabeth Smith Lenna
Fairbank (delivered August 7, 2011) (
PDF file).
Eulogy, Living the New Deal: David Ginsburg
(1912-2010) (delivered Sept. 26, 2010) (SSRN
abstract) (PDF file).
Clerks' Corner: John Paul Stevens Receives a
Clerkship, XXXII Supreme Court Historical Society Quarterly 12
(No. 2, 2010) (PDF
file).
Eulogy, Whitney R. Harris (delivered May 23, 2010) (SSRN
abstract) (PDF file).
Getting
His Clerkship: How Winning a Coin Flip (Among Other Things)
Led John Paul Stevens to Become a Law Clerk to Justice Wiley
Rutledge, SCOTUSblog (posted April 27, 2010).
Appreciation: Whitney Harris, Nuremberg
Prosecutor, TIME online (posted April 23, 2010).
Inauguration Day: Obama & History, New York
Times, Jan. 20, 2009 (letter regarding FDR, the New Deal and Ronald
Reagan).
"That One" &
"That Man", History News Network (posted Oct. 15,
2008)
A
Conversation Among Legal Biographers, XXIII Focus on Law
Studies (American Bar Association, Spring 2008, 23 pp.) (with
Joan Biskupic, Linda Greenhouse, Roger Newman, Jill Norgren,
Philippa Strum, G. Edward White & Juan Williams; John Paul
Ryan, ed.)
Eugene C. Gerhart (1912-2007), Jackson
Biographer,
80 New York State Bar Association Journal 26-28 (February 2008) (
PDF).
Introduction, in The Presidency and the Supreme
Court
(a pamphlet collecting historical essays, documents and photographs
from the twelve U.S. presidential libraries, on published by The
National Archives & Records Administration, Nov. 2007).
Unmask
the Secret Law Clerks, Legal Times, April 23, 2007.
The
Holocaust Was at the Heart of the Nuremberg
Prosecution,
History News Network (posted December 15, 2006).
Samuel
Alito Misunderstands Justice Jackson's Famous Opinion in the Steel
Seizure Case, History News Network (posted January
11, 2006).
"Deep
Throat," Justice Jackson and Suicide Pacts,
History News Network (posted June 16, 2005).
Robert H. Jackson's Oral Arguments before the New York Court
of Appeals, 3 Historical Society of
the Court of the State of New York Newsletter
3-5 (Spring/Summer 2005) (draft
available on SSRN).
Cosmopolitan Justices, 8 The Green Bag 2d 131-32 (Winter
2005).
Jackson's Voice Clear on Social Security Issues,
Jamestown Post-Journal, Feb. 13, 2005, p. A-5 (excerpted on
History News Network as How Social Security Was
Defended by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (posted Feb
21, 2005)).
From Justice Jackson to Thomas J. Dodd to Nuremberg,
XXVI Supreme
Court Historical Society Quarterly 1, 6-8 (2005).
A Supreme Court
Seat for John Ashcroft?, History News Network (posted Dec.
13, 2004).
Thoughts on Robert Jackson 50 Years After His Death,
Jamestown Post-Journal, Oct. 9, 2004.
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, St. Louis (Spring 2002).
Robert Jackson’s Life Was A Significant One, Jamestown
Post-Journal, Feb. 13, 2002.
Civil Liberties In Times of War, New York Law Journal,
Nov. 14, 2001, p. 2 (letter).
Bill Jackson's Daily Editorials Raised a Lot of Dust in
1940, The Chautauquan Daily, August 25-26, 2001, p. B-5.
Ray Exercised Proper Discretion With Clinton, Newsday,
January 22, 2001, p. A23 (with Michael A. Simons).
Portrait of Higginbotham is a Study of Excellence,
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 21, 2000, p. A9.
Doing TV Justice to Nuremberg?, FindLaw's Writ (posted
July 14, 2000).
Whistleblowing – The Difficult Duty of DR 1-103(A), New
York Professional Responsibility Report, June 2000, pp. 1, 4,
8.
William Eldred Jackson, read April 6, 2000, at the
American Society of International Law
(http://www.asil.org/annual_meeting/thursday.htm.)
Despite All, Keep the Prosecutor Law, Newsday, April
29, 1999, pp. A57, A60.
It Can’t Be Watergate Every Time, Legal Times, February
22, 1999, pp. 29-30.
Federal Statute Applies State Conduct Rules To
Prosecutors, New York Professional Responsibility Report,
January 1999, pp. 2-3.
Terry v. Ohio: Biographical Information on the Participants
in the Cases, 72 St. John’s Law Review 1387-95 (Fall
1998).
Terry v. Ohio: The Street Locations, Downtown Cleveland,
October 31, 1963, 72 St. John’s Law Review 1385 (Fall
1998).
Nothing Special in These Prosecutions, Legal Times,
Dec. 22 & 29, 1997, pp. 39-40.
The Independent Counsel That Wasn't: Finding Lessons in the
Way the Independent Counsel System Cleared George Tenet, Legal
Times, Sept. 1, 1997, pp. 23-24.
A Post-Conference Reflection on Separate Ethical Aspirations
for ADR's Not-So-Separate Practitioners, 38 South Texas Law
Review 705-11 (1997).
Death for Child Rapists May Not Save Children, National
Law Journal, Aug. 18, 1997, p. A21.
Testimony
Witness, United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Hearing on the Independent Counsel Act, March 17, 1999 (http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/031799_witness.htm).
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