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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.

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The Flag Salute Case: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)

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“If There Is Any Fixed Star,” Jackson on Barnette

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August 12, 2018 at 4:00pm

A Model for Courage: The Life of Charles Goodell

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

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A Model for Courage: The Life of Charles Goodell

A Model for Courage: The Life of Charles Goodell explores the life of the Jamestown-born politician who ascended to the U.S. Senate in a time of crisis only to lose his seat for standing up for what was right.

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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

Reading of The Judgment of The Tribunal by Judge Lawrence I

On Sept. 30, 1946, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, President Judge, commenced the reading of the Judgment of the Tribunal to a packed courtroom. All of the members and alternate members of the Tribunal participated in the reading which lasted over one and one half days.The Judgment began by describing the foundations of the Tribunal, the scope of the proceedings and the kinds of evidence. Read More

He [the country lawyer] identified himself with the client's cause fully, sometimes too fully. He would fight the adverse party and fight his counsel, fight every hostile witness, and fight the court, fight public sentiment, fight any obstacle to his client's success. He never quit. He could think of motions for every purpose under the sun, and he made them all. He moved for new trials, he appealed; and if he lost out in the end, he joined the client at the tavern in damning the judge - which is the last right in closing an unsuccessful case, and I have officiated at many.

Robert H. Jackson. "The County Seat Lawyer" 36 ABAj 497