Professor John Q. Barrett, who is writing the biography of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), sends periodic "Jackson List" emails about Justice Jackson, the Supreme Court, Nuremberg and related topics to a private but entirely non-selective email list--all are welcome. The Jackson List reaches many thousands of subscribers around the world (and thanks to them for forwarding these notes widely).
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Jackson List Archive
The "clickable" titles below link to past Jackson List posts, archived here in PDF file format. Many include original document images.
4/30/2013: Common Ground & Cooperative Enterprise in International Law (1949)
3/17/2013: With Francis at the Vatican (1928 & 1946)
3/11/2013: Arguing Barnette, et al. (1943)
2/13/2013: Birthday
2/12/2013: David Ginsburg on the PUHCA Supreme Court Arguments (1938)
1/30/2013: Franklin & Fred
12/20/2012: "Nothing Urgent Here" (1952)
12/13/2012: Dave Brubeck Liberates Nuremberg
11/20/2012: Commending Mr. Browning (1952)
11/15/2012: Happy Birthday, FF (1952)
11/5/2012: Assailing the President's Opponent (1940)
10/1/2012: Mr. Cropley, First Monday and Supreme Court Stewardship (1952)
8/16/2012: Justice Roberts & the Nuts
7/26/2012: The President Visits the Justice at Home (1933 & 1962)
7/3/2012: Independence & Country Kids
6/29/2012: Chief Justice in Summer (1941)
6/26/2012: Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
6/8/2012: Law School Commencement (1912)
6/5/2012: Painting the Limits of Presidential Power (1952)
5/24/2012: Social Security Upheld (1937)
5/9/2012: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach (1922-2012)
4/18/2012: Mike Wallace Interviews Thurgood Marshall (1957)
4/12/2012: Remembering FDR (1942)
3/29/2012: Supreme Court Decision Making (1937)
3/23/2012: Rehnquist's Missing Letter (1955)
2/23/2012: Back, Basics, Buffalo (1942)
2/14/2012: A Valentine (circa 1914)
2/13/2012: Birthday Bonds, Appreciation, Treasure
1/29/2012: Honoring an Albany Law School Alumnus (1912)
12/21/2011: Supreme Court at Christmastime (1951)
12/8/2011: Paternal Advice about War, Peace & Law (December 8, 1941)
11/21/2011: Fahy to Jackson (1941): Friendship & Thanks
11/13/2011: President Wilson in Robert Jackson's Buffalo (1917)
10/19/2011: Executions in Nuremberg (October 1946)
9/30/2011: Judgment Days in Nuremberg (1946)
9/6/2011: Jackson & Wyzanski (1946): Believing Intensely in Nuremberg and in You
7/3/2011: Judicial "Inauguration," Judicial Independence (1946)
6/11/2011: Four Years and More Than Forty Blocks (June 11, 1945)
5/27/2011: Supreme Court Bar Admission (1931)
5/17/2011: Brown Day
5/2/2011: Leading War Criminal Dead, Not Prosecuted (1945)
4/25/2011: Stone & Jackson (April 1946) ... and Holmes on the Knowledge That One Has Lived
4/18/2011: Tax Law, Self-Government & Judicial Restraint
4/17/2011: Elizabeth Smith Lenna Fairbank (1923-2011)
4/2/2011: Creating an Institutional Precedent at Nuremberg
3/17/2011: Free Speech as Safety Valve (1919)
2/13/2011: Birthday Cake in Chambers (1952)
1/31/2011: Chautauqua Institution
1/18/2011: Danger & Distinction in Public Service
1/6/2011: Four Freedoms (January 6, 1941)
12/23/2010: Holiday Note, Chief to Staff (December 1945)
12/17/2010: Departures & Breaks from Nuremberg (December 1945)
12/3/2010: Justices & the Death Penalty
11/22/2010: New Memorium in Nuremberg
11/21/2010: Civilization Opens Its Case at Nuremberg
11/13/2010: Brandeis for Buffalo
10/30/2010: Saturday Night Advice for U.S. Voters Next Tuesday (1940)
10/18/2010: Nuremberg Indictment Day
10/4/2010: First Monday with Friends (1941)
9/30/2010: Belated, in U.S. Theaters, "Nuremberg"
9/17/2010: Constitution Days 1787, 1937 & 2010
9/7/2010: Jackson (1930) on Your Labor, Your Leisure & Your Life
8/22/2010: Benjamin Kaplan (1911-2010), Nuremberg Architect & Prosecutor
7/29/2010: More on Screws v. United States
7/25/2010: Shirley Sherrod on Screws v. United States, in 1945, Today & Tomorrow
7/14/2010: David Ginsburg (1912-2010), Lifelong New Dealer
7/4/2010: Impending Supreme Court Justice on Independence Day (1941)
6/21/2010: To London, June 1945
5/17/2010: May 17, 1954
4/22/2010: Whitney R. Harris (1912-2010), Nuremberg Prosecutor
4/15/2010: John Paul Stevens Leaves Too Soon
3/24/2010: Against Rabid Commentary, 1928 & 2010
3/17/2010: American Wedding Anniversary (March 17, 1905)
3/11/2010: The Newest "Barnette Sister"
2/17/2010: Donald B. Cronson (1922-2009), Jackson Law Clerk
2/12/2010: February Birthday Carnival
2/8/2010: Peter Calvocoressi (1912-2010), Nuremberg Prosecutor
1/29/2010: Citizens United (2010) & Justice Jackson (1944) on Fidelity to Precedent
1/20/2010: Jackson Advice to a Political Candidate
12/23/2009: Christmas Cards from Nuremberg (November 1945)
12/16/2009: Holiday Book Recommendations
12/4/2009: Spelling Out Words to Radio Listeners (Fall 1948): A Cryptic Reference Explained
11/25/2009: Penn & Thanksgiving, 1948
11/12/2009: Jackson Against Racial Exclusion: The D.C. Bar Association Library (1941)
11/4/2009: Natural Gas Lawyer, Natural Gas Justice
10/30/2009: Richard W. Sonnenfeldt (1923-2009), Chief U.S. Interpreter at Nuremberg & "Single Most Important Person"
9/19/2009: Rosh Hashanah in Bavaria (1945)
9/8/2009: School Choice in Jamestown & Washington, September 1933
8/27/2009: "Fool's Errands" & Innocence in American Law
7/20/2009: Hickory Hill after the Jacksons
7/17/2009: Buying Hickory Hill (1941)
7/7/2009: Americans at Wimbledon (1945)
7/1/2009: End of a Supreme Court Term (1939)
6/24/2009: Summer Book Recommendations
6/5/2009: Career Advice to Graduating Students
5/21/2009: Memorial Day in Frewsburg (1909)
5/12/2009: Henry T. King, Jr. (1919-2009), Nuremberg Prosecutor
4/28/2009: Republicans, Intelligence & Practicality (December 1936)
4/20/2009: Familiarity with Holocaust Evidence
4/7/2009: Supreme Court Justice W.E. Lantz?
3/30/2009: Department of Justice Installations, New and Permanent
3/23/2009: ... and Thanks from Augustus Hand
3/19/2009: Umpires Strike Back
3/13/2009: Howard C. Buschman, Jr. (1917-2009), Jackson Law Clerk
3/4/2009: Concerns About Bank Security (1932)
2/13/2009: Turning 54 at Nuremberg
2/11/2009: Democrat for Lincoln (1908)
2/3/2009: Irving Feiner, Supreme Court Litigant & Free Speaker
1/16/2009: On the Eve of an Unprecedented Inauguration (1941)
12/22/2008: Jackson on Holiday in Athens (December 22, 1945)
11/25/2008: Thanksgiving in Nuremberg (1945)
11/5/2008: After Counting the Ballots
11/3/2008: "Landslide Lyndon" in the Supreme Court (1948)
10/15/2008: "That One" and "That Man"
10/7/2008: Cert Work, Pooled and Solo
9/24/2008: Jacksonian Advice for the Next Attorney General
9/19/2008: Justice Courts in New York State
9/4/2008: Political Conventions
8/15/2008: A Conversation Among Legal Biographers
7/31/2008: Gone Fishin'
7/18/2008: "MacArthurism" in the Court
6/20/2008: A Rehnquist Ode (circa 1953), and Jackson Against Baseball
6/16/2008: Senator Obama on Guantanamo & Nuremberg
6/5/2008: Honorary Degrees
6/3/2008: Thurgood Marshall's Centennial, July 2, 2008
5/15/2008: Bennett Boskey's Book, Some Joys of Lawyering
4/30/2008: The Unfinished Business of Humanity (1947)
4/22/2008: A Jackson Biography for Young Readers (and Elders)
4/1/2008: Attorney General Jackson on The Federal Prosecutor (April 1, 1940)
3/27/2008: Supreme Court Justices on Their Book-Reading, 1948-49
2/13/2008: Lincolnian Jackson
1/29/2008: FDR's Long Term Reading Pile (December 1935)
1/26/2008: An Update on Attorney General Mukasey's Office Décor
12/14/2007: The Stomach for Judicial Service
12/7/2007: Tom Dodd's Nuremberg
10/29/2007: Eugene C. Gerhart (1912-2007), Jackson Biographer
10/15/2007: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--in Action, in Archives, in History
10/3/2007: Thurgood Marshall in the Supreme Court
9/28/2007: Office Wall Décor
8/27/2007: An Attorney General Departs
8/24/2007: Dr. Raul Hilberg (1926-2007)
7/3/2007: Jackson on Independence Day (1941 and 1945)
7/2/2007: Actually Remembering Brown v. Board of Education
6/4/2007: Commending Opinion Announcements by Supreme Court Justices
3/7/2007: Blowing Up the Swastika, Nuremberg, Spring 1945
2/12/2007: Jackson on his Hobbies
1/31/2007: Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Nuremberg prosecutor
12/20/2006: Christmas Celebration, Nuremberg, 1945
12/15/2006: Lighting the First Candle: Holocaust Film and Chanukah at Nuremberg, 1945
12/8/2006: December 8, 1941
11/8/2006: Richard Sonnenfeldt's Memoir, Witness to Nuremberg
9/12/2006: Jackson on Politics, February 1948
7/16/2006: James M. Marsh (1913-2006), Jackson Law Clerk
4/24/2006: Justice Jackson on Chief Justice Stone, April 23, 1946
4/24/2006: Drexel A. Sprecher (1913-2006), Nuremberg prosecutor
2/17/2006: Brady O. Bryson (1915-2006), Nuremberg prosecutor
2/14/2006: Jackson Birthdays 2006, 1946 & 1892
12/22/2005: Jackson in the Holiday Season
10/3/2005: The Anonymity of Supreme Court Service
9/12/2005: William H. Rehnquist, Jackson Law Clerk
7/28/2005: John Roberts and Justice Jackson
6/14/2005: "Deep Throat," Justice Jackson and Suicide Pacts
12/14/2004: Politicians, Attorneys General, Justices--Parallels?
6/13/2003: Barnette at 60
Last updated May 2, 2013.