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February 12, 2020 at 7:00pm

Annual Robert H. Jackson Day in Warren

Join us on Feb. 12, 2020 at 7 p.m. at the Warren County Courthouse for our annual Jackson Day lecture, featuring Allegheny College Professor Dr. Brian Harward entitled "Presidential Power in the Modern Era."

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Jackson’s Jamestown

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May 9, 2020 at 10:00am

Battle of the Books

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

Current 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.

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Jackson’s Jamestown

This unit will empower students to reflect on their personal career goals, brainstorm steps toward reaching those goals and use Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson as a case study of an individual who ascended from ordinary life in small-town America to the highest echelons of American government. 

The unit of study is structured to take place over several class sessions depending on student work pace and the desired depth of research. Customization and adaptation are encouraged for differentiation and time management imperatives. 

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Justice Jackson and the Application of Universal Ethics

How do we truly know if something is moral?  Designed for the International Baccalaureate student and teacher, this unit is designed to offer students a detailed case study on how Robert H. Jackson led the allied efforts to apply a universal concept of ethical justice to Nazi officials captured at the end of World War II vis a vis the Nuremberg Tribunal.  Students will also consider the efficacy in developing UN International Tribunals and the International Criminal Courts....

This Day in Nuremberg

Balachowsky

On January 29, 1946, Alfred Balachowsky, a Buchenwald Concentration Camp internee, was called by French prosecutor M. Dubost regarding activities at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He testified that he was able to get a hold of the archives of Block 46 and was able to note all the experiments that were recorded in the archives. Block 46 was the infamous block for experiments where the internees were utilized as guinea pigs. 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