John Q. Barrett, discoverer and editor of Robert H. Jackson's acclaimed book That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt and writer of the popular blog The Jackson List, joins author and constitutional scholar Gerard Magliocca, author of The Actual Art of Governing: Justice Robert H. Jackson's Concurring Opinion in the Steel Seizure Case, and G. Edward White, author of Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment, to discuss the Justice’s influential concurrence in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, his approach to constitutional interpretation, and the lasting legacy he left on debates over presidential power. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This program is, in partnership, presented by the National Constitution Center.
John Q. Barrett Is the Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law at St. John’s University. Barrett is also the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, N.Y. He is the author of The Jackson List and editor of Robert H. Jackson's manuscript, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (2004).
Gerard N. Magliocca is the Distinguished Professor and Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and will be joining us in person at the Robert H. Jackson Center on Wednesday, May 20 at 6pm for 25 Years of Asking Questions: Why do Presidents Push the Limits? to discuss his new book, The Actual Art of Governing: Justice Robert H. Jackson’s Concurring Opinion in the Steel Seizure Case (2025).
Edward White is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and will be joining us in person at the Robert H. Jackson Center on Wednesday, March 18 at 6pm for 25 Years of Asking Questions: What Makes a Life Matter? to discuss his new book, Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment (2025).
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
