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November 21, 2020 at 10:00am
Nuremberg Opening Statement-75th Anniversary Reading
The Robert H. Jackson Center commemorates the 75th anniversary of Robert H. Jackson’s Opening Statement as U.S. Chief of Counsel at Nuremberg in the most 2020 way possible: as a virtual reading.
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Suzkever
On Feb. 27, 1946, Chief Counsellor of Justice L.N. Smirnov of the Russian Delegation called Abram Suzkever, a Jewish writer from Vilna, as a witness. He testified that about 80,000 Jews had lived in Vilna before German occupation. In 1941, The Germans initiated a pogrom in Vilna Read More
We do not feel that due process of law should be construed to mean that non-resident traders shall be at liberty to seek our markets and to avoid our courts. While we are properly prohibited from seizing a defendant who has not submitted itself in some manner to our jurisdiction, we should not be compelled to banish a citizen plaintiff to an alien jurisdiction that he has never submitted himself to in order that he may pursue a cause of action arising here.
Jamestown, NY Lawyer Robert H. Jackson. New York Law Review, 1927.