Robert H. Jackson Society Dinner Featuring Geoffrey Stone and John Q. Barrett Set for July 11
For release July 6, 2005
Robert H. Jackson Society Dinner Featuring Geoffrey Stone and John Q. Barrett Set for July 11
The Robert H. Jackson Center summer dinner honoring Robert H. Jackson Society members is set for Monday evening, July 11, at the Jackson Center. University of Chicago law professor and Supreme Court authority Geoffrey R. Stone and St. John's University law professor and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow John Q. Barrett will be featured guests and speakers.
The Jackson Society is comprised of donors who contribute $500 or more to the Jackson Center's Annual Fund campaign for operating funds. Society members are treated to two major Jackson Center events a year. This is the second year that a summer dinner has been planned surrounding the anniversary of Justice Jackson's July 26 closing address at the Nuremberg trial. In February, an event featuring Senator Christopher Dodd was held at the U.S. Supreme Court, where members heard Senator Dodd speak and met him and other officials at a private reception.
"Annual Fund donors are especially important to the Jackson Center, no matter what size the gift," says Jackson Center Executive Director Rolland E. Kidder. "Donors of all amounts will receive various forms of recognition and this is what we do for Jackson Society members."
"Professor Geoffrey Stone is new to the Jackson Center," continues Kidder, "and will appear at 3:30 p.m. Monday, July 11, at the Chautauqua Institution Hall of Philosophy, thanks to special donors to the Center." Sponsors underwriting Stone's appearance include: Northwest Savings Bank, Arnie and Jill Bellowe, County of Chautauqua Industrial Development Agency, Marty and Sandy Coyle, Paul and Cheryl Fardink (Magic Carpets), Vic and Joan Gelb and Thomas B. Hagen.
Professor Stone will deliver Chautauqua Institution's inaugural Robert H. Jackson lecture, according to Kidder, and then travel to the Jackson Center where Jackson Society donors will be entertained for dinner and time with Stone and Barrett.
"For some time," Jackson Center President Greg Peterson explained, "we have believed that a summer program at Chautauqua Institution could be an important new initiative. Because the Jackson Center honors the legacy of a renowned former Supreme Court Justice, it seemed especially appropriate that this program focus on the Supreme Court itself at the summertime conclusion of its annual Term, in the immediate wake of its latest decisions and developments."
The impending retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor makes Stone's appearance both at the Chautauqua Institution and the Jackson Center especially intriguing.
Professor Stone is the Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He previously served as Dean of the University of Chicago Law School (1987-93), as Provost of the University of Chicago (1993-2002), and as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (1972-73).
Professor Stone is one of the nation's premier constitutional law scholars and a leading expert on the Supreme Curt. His latest book, just published and already widely acclaimed, is Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism.
Professor John Q. Barrett is the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow of the Jackson Center and Professor of Law at St. John's University in New York. He formerly served in the office of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh investigating Iran-Contra, and in the U.S. Department of Justice. He discovered the handwritten manuscript of Robert H. Jackson's book That Man among Jackson's papers while researching a biography of the Justice. He edited and published That Man through Oxford University Press.
Persons interested in contributing to the Jackson Center Annual Fund as Jackson Society members prior to the July 11 dinner or in making gifts of any size to assist the Jackson Center should call the Center at (716)483-6646.
For more information: Rolland Kidder/Rebecca Robbins (716)483-6646