John Q. Barrett on Justice Robert H. Jackson's Legacy in Albany

February 14, 2012

In the Media

From Lark Street to Nuremberg
By Paul Grondahl
Times Union
February 12, 2012

"It think it's great that there's been so much interest in this," said John Q. Barrett, a professor at St. John's University School of Law and noted Jackson scholar. Barrett made a passing mention about the omission of the historic marker in a talk last Thursday during a panel discussion on Jackson's time in Albany. A swirl of behind-the-scenes activity with civic leaders and the law school was set in motion.

"There's something great about reading a marker of a young nobody who went onto greatness in a spot that everyone in the neighborhood is familiar with," said Barrett, who has written extensively about Jackson's career and serves as a fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, Chautauqua County.