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.
The Jackson list does not display recipient identities
or distribute their email addresses. To join, send a
request to barrettj@stjohns.edu.
Selected Past Posts to the Jackson
List
(Click on the title below to open a PDF
file. Many have document images attached.)
1/29/2010: Citizens United (2010) & Justice Jackson (1944) on
Fidelity to Precedent
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
11/4/2009:
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'
7/18/2008:
"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
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Last updated 2/1/2010.