The Robert H. Jackson Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 7, 2007

October Term 1951 Supreme Court Law Clerks Roundtable Planned for May 16

On Wednesday, May 16th, former Supreme Court law clerks who served during the October Term 1951 will gather for a roundtable discussion at 2 p.m. in Chautauqua Institution’s Lenna Hall. Topics will include the “Steel Seizure Cases,” in which the Court declared President Truman’s seizure of the nation’s steel mills during the Korean War to be unconstitutional, and other notable aspects of their law clerk service and Court decisions 55 years ago. This event is free and open to the public.

Roundtable participants are Charles C. Hileman, III, Abner J. Mikva. James C. N. Paul, Neal P. Rutledge, and Marshall L. Small. Moderators for this event are Professors John Q. Barrett and Ken Gormley.

Charles C. Hileman, III an O.T. 1951 law clerk to Justice Harold H. Burton, is retired from law practice with Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP.

Abner J. Mikva, an O.T. 1951 law clerk to Justice Sherman Minton and later a Member of Congress, a federal judge and White House Counsel, is senior director and visiting professor at the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.

James C. N. Paul, an O.T. 1951 law clerk to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, is a retired professor at Rutgers-Newark School of Law and commissioner of the International Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (The Hague).

Neal P. Rutledge, an O.T. 1951 law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black, is retired from law practice with Rutledge & Milledge in Miami and from law teaching at the University of Miami, Duke University, North Carolina Central University and the Georgetown University Law Center.

Marshall L. Small, the O.T. 1951 law clerk to Justice William O. Douglas, is Senior Counsel at Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco.

John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at St. John’s University in New York City and the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Jackson Center. He discovered, edited and introduced Justice Jackson’s “That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

Ken Gormley is a Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh. He is author of “Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation.”

This event will be the Robert H. Jackson Center’s fifth annual event involving former Supreme Court law clerks. The Supreme Court Historical Society, which co-sponsored previous Jackson Center discussions of “Brown v. Board of Education II” (1955) and “West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette” (1943), and the Chautauqua Institution are pleased to co-sponsor this year’s roundtable. Other sponsors include the Chautauqua County IDA and Elegant Edibles.

The Supreme Court Historical Society serves the Court, the legal profession, historians, and the public. The Society is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical information about the Supreme Court of the United States through educational programs, publications, scholarship, and the acquisition of Court-related artifacts.

Chautauqua Institution is a summer residential center for the arts, education, religion, and recreation.

The Jackson Center’s mission is to advance the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson through education and exhibits, and by pursuing the relevance of his ideas for our generation. The Center is located at 305 East Fourth Street, Jamestown. Tours are available from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Monday–Friday and Saturdays from 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Contact information:

The Robert H. Jackson Center

716.483.6646

Don Greenhouse or Carol Drake

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