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August 25, 2019 at 7:00pm

13th Annual Heintz Award Presentation & Interview/Performance by Samite

The Robert H. Jackson Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 13th annual International Humanitarian Law Roundtable (IHLR) with a program featuring the presentation of the Joshua Heintz Award for Humanitarian Achievement and an interview/performance featuring Samite, internationally acclaimed musician and humanitarian. This event is Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm in the Cappa Theatre of the Jackson Center at 305 East 4th Street, Jamestown, NY.

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15th Annual Young Readers Winning Essays

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September 8, 2019 at 5:30pm

Leading with Integrity and Innovation: A Tribute to Stan Lundine

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Robert H. Jackson Center Newsletters

The Robert H. Jackson Center envisions a global society where the universal principles of equality, fairness and justice prevail.

JACKSON CENTER EVENTS

EXHIBITS AT THE JACKSON CENTER

Upcoming Exhibit: Leading with Integrity & Innovation-A Tribute to Stan Lundine

This exhibit pays tribute to Stan Nelson Lundine and celebrates his political career nearly 50 years after it began.

Featured Lesson Plan

Checks & Balances- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer

Two 40 minute lessons for Grade 11: United States History and Government classes including references to the DVD, Liberty Under Law, The Robert H. Jackson Story, websites, and student readings.

 

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Justice at Nuremberg

Four 40-minute lessons for Grade 11: United States History and Government classes complete with websites, handouts and suggested video clips from the DVD, Liberty Under Law: The Robert H. Jackson Story....

This Day in Nuremberg

Accused Organizations

On Aug. 29, 1946, Thomas J. Dodd, Executive Trial Counsel, made final arguments against the Accused Organizations. He stated that the "accused organizations were the principal media by and through which these transgressions of the individual defendants were effected. He went on to state that "deprive the Nazi conspirators of these organizations and they could never have accomplished their criminal aims". Read More

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) at 642