Featured event
September 13, 2018
Attica – Legal Perspectives & Legacy
The Robert H. Jackson Center is pleased to announce that it will host its annual fall Community Education Seminar focusing on the Attica Prison riots.
JACKSON CENTER EVENTS
This Day in Nuremberg
Funk II
On Aug. 16, 1946 Dr. Fritz Sauter recalled his client Defendant Walter Funk to the stand to clarify his testimony regarding Oswald Pohl. He admitted that he had discussed with him the deposit of valuables in the Reichsbank. In German, Funk said he knew that the SS had thousands of members who naturally had valuables Read More
We are haunted by the greatest unfinished task of civilization which is to create a just and peaceful international order. If such a relationship between states is to be realized, we know its foundations will be laid in law, because legal process is the only practical alternative to force.
Address of Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Inter-American Bar Association, Havana, Cuba, March 27, 1941. Printed in The American Journal of International Law (p 348)