John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at St.
John's University in New York City, where he teaches
constitutional law, criminal procedure and legal
history, and he is the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow and
a board member at the Robert H. Jackson Center
in Jamestown, New York. He currently is teaching in St. John's program at
ISDE in Barcelona, Spain. Professor Barrett has in
the past been named a "Professor of the Year" by St. John's law
students and in 2009 received a Faculty Outstanding
Achievement Medal from the University. He is a
graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School.
Justice Robert H. Jackson: Professor
Barrett is writing a biography of the late U.S.
Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor
Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954). This work will
include the first inside account of Justice Jackson's service,
by appointment of President Truman, as the chief
prosecutor at Nuremberg, Germany, of the principal surviving
Nazi leaders during 1945 and 1946.
The Jackson List: Professor Barrett
sends periodic emails to over 14,000 subscribers who are
interested in Justice Jackson and related
topics. To read archived copies of
some Jackson List posts,
click here. To join the Jackson List, which does not
display recipient identities or email addresses, send a
"subscribe" note to barrettj@stjohns.edu.
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Professor Barrett discovered and
edited Justice Jackson's previously unknown, never
published, now acclaimed book
That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Oxford University Press).
That Man, Jackson's intimate, eloquent memoir of FDR from their
first meeting as young men in 1911 through their close
working relationship and friendship during the New Deal years
and World War II, is available in paperback,
including through
Amazon.Com.
That Man, a Main Selection of the
Book of the Month Club and the
History Book Club and a Choice Outstanding Academic
title, was reviewed prominently in many publications,
including
The New York Times Book Review,
The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Monthly,
The New Republic and Legal Times, and the book is
regularly quoted around the world. Professor Barrett has
discussed
That Man in major media and public venues throughout
the United States, including on
NPR's "All Things Considered".
Recent Activities: Last month,
Professor Barrett spoke at the Second Circuit Judicial
Conference and at the 40th anniversary of the Commonwealth Court of
Pennsylvania. In October 2009, he delivered a major lecture
in Nuremberg, Germany, on the U.S. role in the Nuremberg
trial. In July 2009, he received a History Award
Medal from the National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR). In June 2009, Professor
Barrett delivered, at the invitation of Attorney General
Holder, a lecture in the Attorney General's conference room on
former AG Jackson and Nuremberg. In November 2008,
Professor Barrett helped to organize and participated as
a panelist in the Presidential
Libraries/National Archives conference, "The Presidency &
the Supreme Court," at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential
Library--
click here for video and transcripts.
During 2005-2007, Professor
Barrett was a principal speaker at numerous conferences
commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial,
including conferences in Nuremberg itself, at the Russian Academy
of Sciences in Moscow and, in the United States, at locations
including Harvard University and the Truman Presidential
Library. He appears in the film
Hitler's Courts: Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi
Germany, in the PBS/WGBH American
Experience documentary, The Nuremberg Trials, and in the PBS
documentary Legacy of War.
Before joining the St. John's faculty, Professor Barrett was
Counselor during 1994-1995 to U.S. Department of
Justice Inspector General Michael R. Bromwich. From
1988-1993, Barrett was Associate Counsel in the Office of
Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh (Iran/Contra). From
1986-1988, Barrett served as a law clerk to Judge A. Leon
Higginbotham, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit in Philadelphia.
In addition to teaching Constitutional Law
and Criminal Procedure, Professor
Barrett has taught legal history seminars
on American Judicial Biography, the Hughes and Stone
Courts (1930-46), and the Nuremberg Trial, Introduction
to Law & the Legal Profession, Professional
Responsibility, and White Collar Crime. Professor
Barrett also has taught Constitutional Law modules in St.
John's Summer Prep Program for College Students and a
course, "Nuremberg, International Human Rights &
Humanitarian Law," in Touro Law Center's summer
program at the
University of Potsdam Law School in Germany.
Professor Barrett speaks regularly on the Supreme
Court, Justice Jackson, Nuremberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
That Man and other legal and historical topics
in public venues and to community, campus, corporate and other
audiences and groups throughout the United States and abroad.
Professor Barrett also is a regular national media
commentator on legal and historical issues.
Professor Barrett is a member of the Supreme Court Historical
Society, serves on The Roosevelt
Institution advisory board, is a member New York City Bar Association
and its Legal History Committee, and is a supporter of The Parent-Child Home
Program and the National
Association for Urban Debate Leagues.
Last updated 7/7/2010.