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August 16, 2017 at 4:00pm

13th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States

The Honorable Jon O. Newman is a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He assumed senior status in 1997. At the time of his appointment in 1979, he was a United States District Court Judge for the District of Connecticut. Judge Newman was Chief Judge from 1993 to 1997. Judge Newman will give the 13th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States. Chautauqua Institution’s Robert H. Jackson Lecture, delivered each summer after the completion of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term, is a prominent expert’s take on the Court, the Justices, major decisions and related developments, trends and issues. The program is presented in partnership with the Robert H. Jackson Center.

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International Humanitarian Law Dialogues

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August 6, 2017 at 5:00pm

RHJC Benefit-The Priceless Art of Free Expression

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May 30, 2017 at 5:00pm

RHJ Center Hosts All 6 Chautauqua County Executives

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

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EXHIBITS AT THE JACKSON CENTER

Say I Taught Thee: The Life of Mary R. Willard

One of Robert H. Jackson's greatest mentors was his high school English teacher Mary R. Willard. She had a profound impact on his character.... a character that would carry him far and influence our Nation and the world. Jackson often referred to his relationship with Mary as one of the most important of his life, and their friendship lasted until her death in 1931.

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The United States Supreme Court

This 120-minute lesson focuses on the history and operation of the United States Supreme Court.  Students will learn about the power of judicial review and how the court’s decisions impact society and their daily lives.

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Robert H. Jackson as United States Attorney General-Destroyers for Bases Agreement and Lend-Lease Act

In this 90 minute lesson, 11th grade students will examine reasons for the passage of the Neutrality Acts (1935-1937) and consider the national debate as a shift to pro-Allied policies including “cash and carry” and Lend-Lease.  ...

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

The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.

West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) at 638