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Reva Siegel’s Jackson Lecture at Chautauqua Institution

…renthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRJiC5L744 Professor Siegel also has posted a draft paper, “Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism As Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism—and Some Pathways for Resistance,” that will be published in the Texas Law Review. To download and read the paper, click here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4179622 * * * Reva Siegel is the N…

Kate Shaw to Give Chautauqua Institution’s Jackson Lecture

…on July 29, click here**: https://www.chq.org/event/the-20th-annual-robert-h-jackson-lecture-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-kate-shaw/. Attending the lecture requires a Chautauqua Institution gate pass. Please allow sufficient time for parking and entering the grounds. In past years, Chautauqua’s Jackson Lecturers have been: 2005: Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago professor; 2006: Linda Greenhouse, New York Times writer and Yale…

Justin Driver to give Chautauqua Institution’s Jackson Lecture

…re on July 31, click here: https://www.chq.org/event/the-19th-annual-robert-h-jackson-lecture-on-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-justin-driver/** In past years, Chautauqua’s Jackson Lecturers have been: 2005: Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago professor; 2006: Linda Greenhouse, New York Times writer and Yale Law School lecturer; 2007: Seth P. Waxman, WilmerHale partner and former Solicitor General of the United States; 2008: Jeffrey T…

Ben Ferencz/Law Not War

…er 11:45: https://www.c-span.org/video/?518313-4/ukraine-ambassador-remarks-un-general-assembly-debate. For more information on Ben Ferencz, here are resources, including many that are Ben himself— From the Jackson List archive, three posts about Ben: https://thejacksonlist.com/?s=%22Ben+Ferencz%22+birth; video excerpts of Ben’s 1947 opening statement at Nuremberg in the Einsatzgruppen case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67B-MoKG_o; a November…

Barnette at 80

…ttorney General. He reported to President Roosevelt and the Cabinet on anti-alien, anti-“fifth column” hysteria that was sweeping the country. Jackson criticized the Court for joining in that hysteria by ruling against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Pennsylvania case.) By June 1943, Stone had been appointed Chief Justice. New Associate Justices, including Jackson, had joined the Court. A majority of the Justices was prepared to revisit and rectify…