March 13-15, 2008: Justice Jackson Study Group
Participant in a Liberty Fund colloquium, "Law and Liberty in the Judicial Practice of Robert H. Jackson," Sausalito, CA.
February 29, 2008: Trying Terrorists
Moderated a panel, "Trying Terrorists: Courts, Tribunals, or Commissions?," at a conference, "The National Security Constitution: New Threats, New Rules?," at St. John's University School of Law, New York, NY.
November 12, 2007: The Supreme Court & Presidential Power
Panelist, with John W. Dean, Ambassador C. Boyden Gray, Anthony Lewis, Beth Nolan and Nina Totenberg, at the Presidential Libraries/National Archives conference, "The Presidency and the Supreme Court," held at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY.
August 29, 2007: The Path from the Hague (1907) to Nuremberg & Forward
Delivered the opening lecture at the International Humanitarian Law Dialog on "The Laws of War: Past, Present, and Future," cosponsored by the American Society of International Law, Chautauqua Institution, Syracuse University, the Robert H. Jackson Center and Washington University. Chautauqua, NY.
July 25, 2007: Steel Seizure (1952)
Panelist in a Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit program, "The Steel Seizure Case in Historical Perspective: Presidential Power in Wartime," E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, Washington, D.C.
July 9, 2007: Attorney General Jackson & "The Federal Prosecutor"
Spoke at the annual Jackson Society dinner, Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
July 9, 2007: Solicitors General, Past & Future, at Chautauqua Institution
Introduced attorney Seth P. Waxman, former Solicitor General of the United States, who delivered the third annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
May 16, 2007: The Supreme Court's October Term 1951
Co-moderated, with Professor Ken Gormley of Duquesne Law School, a roundtable discussion with 1951-52 Supreme Court law clerks, focusing on the Steel Seizure Cases and other notable decisions and aspects of that Court Term. Participants were attorneys and former O.T. 1951 law clerks Charles C. Hileman III, Judge Abner J. Mikva, James C.N. Paul, Neal P. Rutledge and Marshall L. Small. This roundtable, co-sponsored by the Robert H. Jackson Center, the Supreme Court Historical Society and Chautauqua Institution, occurred at Chautauqua's Lenna Hall, Chautauqua, NY.
April 14, 2007: The Nuremberg Trial and the Holocaust
Yom Hashoah speaker, Young Israel of West Hempstead.
November 20, 2006: Jackson with Soviet Allies at NurembergSpoke at the conference,
"The Nuremberg Process: The Lessons of History," sponsored by the Institute of World History,
Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, Russian Federation.
November 17, 2006: Harold Jackson Adams
Spoke at the dedication of new exhibit and archive rooms at the Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY. The inaugural exhibit honors Justice Jackson's nephew Harold Jackson Adams.
November 13, 2006: The State of Supreme Court History
Moderated a panel discussion with Maeva Marcus (director of the Documentary History Project of the Supreme Court), James F. Simons (New York Law School), Geoffrey R. Stone (University of Chicago Law School) and William Wiecek (Syracuse UniversityUniversity), at the New York City Bar Association.
October 6, 2006: Jackson, Nuremberg, Taft and Kennedy
Plenary session lecturer on Justice Jackson, Nuremberg, Senator Robert A. Taft and Senator John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, in a 60th anniversary conference, "The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today," at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
September 30, 2006: The Crucial Role of Justice Robert H. Jackson
Speaker at a 60th anniversary conference, "Judgment at Nuremberg," at Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO.
July 25, 2006: Jackson & Germany, 1946 and 2006
Spoke at the annual Jackson Society dinner, Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
July 25, 2006: Justice Jackson and the New York TImes
Introduced Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court report of the New York Times, who delivered the Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
April 28, 2006: Inside West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Panel Moderator and Speaker, Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
April 22, 2006: The Story of Terry v. Ohio (1968)
Speaker at the conference, "Criminal Procedure Stories: Challenges in Constitutional Criminal Procedure Past, Present and Future," in conjunction with the publication of Criminal Procedure Stories (Foundation Press), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA.
March 30, 2006: The Legacy of Nuremberg
Panel Speaker, "The Pursuit of Justice and the Legacy of Nuremberg," Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL.
March 3, 2006: Supreme Court Nominees & Federalism
Speaker, “The ‘Federalism Five’ as Supreme Court Nominees: Where Was the Federalism?,” in Federalism Past, Federalism Future: A Constitutional Law Symposium, St. John's University School of Law, Queens, NY.
January 31, 2006: "Nuremberg @ 60: The Ongoing Jackson Project"
Speaker, Center on Global Legal Problems lecture series, Columbia University School of Law.
January 19, 2006: "History of the Rehnquist Court"
Moderated a panel discussion at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
November 18, 2005: “Nuremberg’s Forgotten Lead Defendants"
Lectured on the 1945-46 prosecution of Nazi Organizations. Sokol Colloquium on Private International Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA.
November 3, 2005: "Jackson at Nuremberg"
Spoke at the Harvard Law School/Facing History and Ourselves conference, "Pursuring Human Dignity: The Legacies of Nuremberg for International Law, Human Rights & Education," Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
September 28, 2005: "Architect and Audience(s): Jackson's Nuremberg"
Delivered keynote lecture at the conference, "Sixty Years After the Nuremberg Trials: Crimes Against Humanity and Peace," Athenaeum Hotel, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
July 18, 2005: "One Good Man": The Jacksonian Shape of Nuremberg
Spoke in Nuremberg, Germany, at a conference, "Judging Nuremberg: The Laws, The Rallies, The Trials -- Returning to Courtroom 600 on the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials," sponsored by the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.
July 14, 2005: Nuremberg Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson
Spoke at the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum about Jackson, who President Truman appointed on May 2, 1945, to prosecute the senior surviving Nazi war criminals. Independence, MO.
July 12 & 13, 2005: Justice Jackson and Nuremberg
Lectured to school teachers participating in a Teaching American History grant-sponsored program on the Nuremberg trials and their legacy, at Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY, and St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY.
July 11, 2005: 60 Years Ago in London: The Path to Nuremberg
Spoke at the annual Jackson Society dinner, Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
July 11, 2005: Robert H. Jackson, Geoffrey R. Stone and James Parker Hall
Introduced Professor Geoffrey Stone, who delivered the inaugural Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
May 18, 2005: The Justices' Law Clerks on Brown v. Board of Education II
Moderated a Robert H. Jackson Center 50th anniversary roundtable discussion with law clerks who worked for four of the Supreme Court Justices who directed in Brown v. Board of Education II that children should be admitted to previously-segregated "public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed...." The former law clerks who participated were Earl E. Pollock (law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren), Gordon B. Davidson (law clerk to Justice Stanley Reed), Daniel J. Meador (law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black), and E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. (law clerk to Justice John M. Harlan). Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
April 21, 2005: The Nuremberg Trials, the Holocaust, and Imagination
Holocaust Remembrance Day keynote speaker, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ.
March 28, 2005: Understanding the Choice of Jackson for Nuremberg
Speaker at a conference, "The Nuremberg Trials: A Reappraisal and Their Legacy," sponsored by the Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City.
February 15, 2005: Justice Jackson, Thomas J. Dodd & Nuremberg
Introductory speaker, "From Justice Jackson to Thomas J. Dodd to Nuremberg," preceding a lecture by Senator Christopher Dodd (CT) about the experiences of his father as United States Executive Trial Counsel prosecuting surviving Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-46. This event, cosponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society and the Robert H. Jackson Center, occurred in the courtroom of the Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C.
December 1, 2004: Justice Jackson at Nuremberg
Speaker, "International Justice? The Roots and Legacies of the Nuremberg Trials," The Harvard Law School/Facing History & Ourselves Program. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. (Click here for streaming video of this event.)
November 15, 2004: Albany in the Life Trajectory of Robert H. Jackson
Keynote speaker, "A Tribute to Justice Robert H. Jackson" (1892-1954; Albany Law School 1911-12). Albany Law School, Albany, NY.
November 6, 2004: Justice Jackson in Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Speaker, "A Civilian Facing the Military in Wartime: Justice Jackson's Korematsu Dissent," at a conference, Judgments Judged & Wrongs Remembered: Examining the Japanese American Civil Liberties Cases of World War II on Their 60th Anniversary, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
October 28, 2004: Brown v. Board of Education
Keynote speaker, "The Et Al's in Brown, et al. v. Board of Education, et al.," 28th Annual Statewide Conference on Law-Related and Civic Education, New York State Bar Association Law, Youth & Citizenship Program, Bolton Landing, NY.
October 18, 2004: Robert H. Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spoke about Justice Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press, 2003), the previously unknown and never-published memoir that Professor Barrett discovered, edited and introduced. The Harvard Club of New York City.
October 3, 2004: Robert H. Jackson Memorial Service
Speaker at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Jamestown, NY, the site of Jackson's funeral on October 13, 1954. (Click here for an event description.)
June 26, 2004: Roosevelt Reading Festival
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press). Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum, Hyde Park, NY.
April 29, 2004: Linda and Cheryl Brown
Introduced a Robert H. Jackson Center forum with Linda Brown Thompson and Cheryl Brown Henderson. They are daughters of Brown v. Board of Education lead plaintiff Oliver Brown, whose challenge to the constitutionality of segregated elementary schools in Topeka, Kansas was won in the Supreme Court of the United States on May 17, 1954. Amphitheater, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. (Click here for streaming video of this event.)
April 28, 2004: The Justices' Law Clerks on Brown v. Board of Education
Moderated a 50th anniversary roundtable discussion with law clerks who worked for four of the nine Supreme Court Justices who in May 1954 unanimously, in Brown v. Board of Education, held that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. The former law clerks who participated were Earl E. Pollock (law clerk to Chief Justice Fred Vinson and, beginning in fall 1953, his successor, Chief Justice Earl Warren), Frank E.A. Sander (law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter), E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. (law clerk to Justice Robert H. Jackson), and John David Fassett (law clerk to Justice Stanley Reed). Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY. (Click here for streaming video of this event.)
April 12, 2004: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Speaker at the FDR Remembrance Ceremony, on the 59th anniversary of the President's death, at his gravesite in the Rose Garden adjacent to Springwood, the Roosevelt family home. Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York.
February 26, 2004: The Army & Navy Club, Washington, DC
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press).
January 6, 2004: Franklin D. Roosevelt as Lawyer-Hero
Speaker, Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
December 18, 2003: Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press). Click here for an event report.
November 13, 2003: New School University, New York City
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press).
November 8, 2003: Miami Book Festival
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press), which Professor Barrett discovered, edited and introduced. (Click here for C-SPAN 2 "BookTV" streaming video of this event.)
November 1, 2003: Chicago Humanities Festival
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press).
October 25, 2003: Roosevelt Institute, Warm Springs, GA
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press).
October 19, 2003: Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
Spoke about Justice Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oxford University Press).
October 10, 2003: Robert H. Jackson as Attorney General, 1940-41
Speaker, Conference on Loyalty and Treason, University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC.
October 3, 2003: Justice Jackson's 1950s Law Clerks
Moderated a Jackson Center roundtable discussion of C. George Niebank, Jr., Donald Cronson and E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., who discussed Justice Robert H. Jackson. Each of these lawyers was a law clerk to Justice Jackson at the Supreme Court during the 1950s. Elizabeth S. Lenna Theater, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
September 17, 2003: Presidential Power
Panelist, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA.
July 25, 2003: "I Hate War"
Introduced the first showing of complete film of President Roosevelt's famous August 1936 speech, in the location where he gave it. Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
July 23, 2003: Justice Jackson on Liberty, Security and Law
10:45 a.m. lecturer, Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater, Chautauqua, NY. (Click here to hear a free excerpt, and also to purchase and download, a copy of this lecture.)
July 20, 2003: "Judgment at Nuremberg"
Commentary following a screening of the film, Chautauqua Institution Cinema.
May 16, 2003: Chief Justice Rehnquist
Introduced the Chief Justice of the United States, who was principal speaker at the dedication of the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, NY. (Click here for streaming video of this event.) Following the dedication, Professor Barrett spoke about Justice Jackson and his 1952-53 Supreme Court law clerk William Rehnquist at a luncheon reception at Chautauqua Institution’s Athenaeum Hotel.
February 21, 2003: Justice Jackson And Nuremberg
Faculty Workshop Speaker, "Justice Robert H. Jackson's Nuremberg," Fordham University School of Law, New York City.
November 22, 2002: The Steel Seizure Case
Participated in "President Truman & the Steel Seizure Case: A 50-Year Retrospective." Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
October 23, 2002: Justice Jackson's 1940s Law Clerks
Moderated a roundtable discussion of Phil C. Neal, Murray Gartner and James M. Marsh, who discussed Justice Robert H. Jackson. Each of these lawyers was a law clerk to Justice Jackson at the Supreme Court during the 1940s. Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
September 26, 2002: Fred T. Korematsu
Moderated panel discussion with Fred Korematsu, the U.S. citizen of Japanese descent who litigated and lost the landmark 1944 Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of U.S. military internment orders during World War II and then, in 1983, won legal vindication when his criminal conviction was dismissed. This panel followed a screening of the documentary film, "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story," and Professor Barrett's introductory remarks about Justice Robert H. Jackson's dissenting, and now historic, opinion in the Korematsu case. The panelists were Fred Korematsu, his wife Kathryn Korematsu, and the film's double Emmy Award-winning director, Eric Paul Fournier. Elizabeth S. Lenna Theater, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
July 20, 2002: Jackson Portrait Dedication
Speaker at the dedication of Lurabel Long Colburn's portrait of Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
May 1, 2002: Jackson & Law Day
February 24, 2002: Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Panelist, "Higginbotham: Race, Values & the American Legal Process -- A Scholarly Working Conference," Yale University, New Haven, CT.
February 9, 2002: Criminal Law & Civil Rights
Moderator of a panel on "Criminal Justice: Federal & State Perspectives on Civil Rights," as part of the Black Law Students' Association (SJU BLSA) Conference on Civil Rights in the 21st Century, St. John's University School of Law, New York City. The panelists were New York Police Department Lt. Eric Adams (President of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care), former United States Attorney Zachary Carter (E.D.N.Y., and now a partner in Dorsey & Whitney LLP), Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, New York State Attorney General Elliott Spitzer, and Acting United States Attorney Alan Vinegrad (E.D.N.Y.).
February 7, 2002: Whitney Harris Tribute
Remarks at the dedication of the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studiesat the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO. Washington University subsequently published a monograph based on these remarks: Postscript: Justice Robert H. Jackson on "My dear Whit," in the Lectures & Occasional Papers 2002 - No. 1, Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University School of Law (Spring 2002).)
November 30, 2001: Jackson & Ambition
Faculty workshop speaker, "Bob Jackson for President, Bob Jackson for Chief Justice: The Biographical Significance of Destinations Not Reached," University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC.
October 25, 2001: Justice Jackson & Nuremberg
Lecturer, "Justice Robert H. Jackson and the Path of Nuremberg," Elderhostel, Elizabeth S. Lenna Theater, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY.
October 24, 2001: Nuremberg Prosecutors
Moderator, "With Justice Jackson at Nuremberg," a roundtable discussion with former Nuremberg prosecutors Whitney R. Harris, Henry J. King, Jr. and Bernard D. Meltzer, at the Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, NY.
July 18, 2001: Robert Jackson, Hero
Platform Speaker, "The Heroic Example of Robert H. Jackson," in the Hall of Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY. (Click here to hear a free excerpt, and also to purchase and download, a copy of this lecture.)
April 20, 2001: After Independent Counsel
Panelist, "Independent Counsel: A Roundtable," Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago.
Januiary 28, 2000: Prosecutors & Forgiveness
Member of a Panel Discussion on "Forgiveness in the Criminal Law," at "A Symposium on The Role of Forgiveness in the Law," Fordham University School of Law, New York. An edited transcript of these proceedings is published in 27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1349, 1373-93 (June 2000).
January 18, 1999: Investigating Presidents
Speaker, "Presidents and Independent Counsel," Berkeley College Senior and Associate Fellows, Woolsey Hall, Yale University.
November 6, 1998: Federal Prosecutors
Member of a Panel Discussion on the Regulation and Ethical Responsibilities of Federal Prosecutors, at "Symposium on the Changing Role of the Federal Prosecutor," Fordham University School of Law, New York. An edited transcript of this discussion is published in 26 Fordham Urban Law Journal 737-65 (March 1999).
Updated 6/3/2008.