Jackson List Posts

Professor John Q. Barrett, who is writing the biography of Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), sends periodic emails about Jackson-related topics to a list that now reaches more than 20,000 interested readers.

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Selected Past Posts to the Jackson List
(Click on any title to open a PDF file)

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

5/12/2009:  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'

7/18/2007:  "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 11/12/2009.

John Q. Barrett
St. Johns University School of Law