Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow
John Q. Barrett |
John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law in New York City, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure and legal history, and he is the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow here at the Jackson Center.
Professor Barrett's edited version of That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Justice Jackson’s previously unknown, now acclaimed memoir of FDR and the New Deal, has just been published in paperback by Oxford University Press.
That Man is available at quality bookstores nationwide and on line, including through Amazon.Com and Barnes&Noble.Com.
That Man, a Main Selection of the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club and a Choice Outstanding Academic title for 2005, has been reviewed prominently in 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, among other publications.
Professor Barrett has spoken about That Man, President Roosevelt and Justice Jackson in many venues throughout the country and has been interviewed about the book on numerous programs, including National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
Professor Barrett currently is working on a biography of Justice Jackson that will include the first inside account of his year (1945-46) away from the Supreme Court as the chief American prosecutor of the principal surviving Nazi leaders at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
Before joining the St. John's faculty, Barrett was Counselor 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). Professor Barrett is a graduate of Georgetown University (1983) and Harvard Law School (1986). From 1986-88, he was a law clerk to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia.
For more information about Professor Barrett, visit his faculty bio page at www.law.stjohns.edu.
You can send email to Professor Barrett at barrettj@stjohns.edu.