Jackson Center Hosts Ohio Debate
(article is
from the news section of the Jamestown Post-Journal)
10/18/2004 - By JOHN WHITTAKER
The Robert H. Jackson Center will take its next event - a discussion of law
and interrogation in war and peace - to the Ohio State School of Law on Friday.
Along with the Jackson Center, the symposium is sponsored by Baker & Hostetler
LLP, the Moritz College of Law and the Ohio State Law Journal.
''The sponsorship of a symposium at the Ohio State Law School with nationally
recognized panelists provides great recognition of Justice Robert H. Jackson
and the work that has been accomplished by the Jackson Center to date,'' said
Greg Peterson, Jackson Center president.
Peterson will open the symposium at 11 a.m. as moderator of a discussion with
Henry T. King, a former Nuremberg prosecutor who recently appeared at the Jackson
Center as part of the 50th anniversary commemoration of Robert H. Jackson's
death.
King is the United States Director of the Canada/United States Law Institute,
a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and counsel
to the law firm of Squire, Sanders and Dempsey in Cleveland. He also wrote a
a book on Nuremberg defendant Albert Speer, The Two Worlds of Albert Speer.
Mr. King was U.S. Foreign Economic Aid Program general counsel and a former
chairman of the Section on International Law and Practice of the American Bar
Association.
The Ohio debate will focus on whether the American Bar Association should pass
a resolution condemning the use of torture on people held by the United States
government. The event will close with a two-hour discussion on coercive interrogation.
The center has hosted such legal luminaries as William Rehnquist, Chief Justice
of the United States and Sandra Day O'Connor, associate justice. The Ohio State
symposium will mark the first time the center has held an event in another city.
''We wish to thank all board, volunteers and staff who have helped to bring
the Jackson Center to this point in its development,'' Peterson said.