July 16, 2009
On
June 11, Professor John Q. Barrett delivered a lecture, at Attorney
General Eric Holder's invitation and in his conference room at the
U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., to the Attorney
General and other DOJ personnel on "Robert H. Jackson and
Nuremberg." This lecture was part of Attorney General
Holder's "American History and the Law" lecture series.
Professor Barrett, who discovered, edited and published Justice
Jackson's acclaimed memoir That Man: An Insider's Portrait of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, is writing a Jackson biography that will
include the first inside account of his 1945-46 work, on leave from
the U.S. Supreme Court, as the U.S. chief prosecutor of the Nazi
war criminals at Nuremberg.
Professor Barrett writes periodically to the Jackson List, an email
list that reaches over 100,000 readers around the world. View
the
Jackson List. To subscribe to the Jackson List, send a
note to barrettj@stjohns.edu.
Professor Barrett, who teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal
Procedure and Legal History at St. John's, also serves as the
Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in
Jamestown, New York.