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…

Ben Ferencz Is 103+

…is 1947 opening statement at Nuremberg in the Einsatzgruppen case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67B-MoKG_o; a November 2005 interview of Ben: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8m5YHt__4; a Ben TED talk from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwa4zRWDsvI; the trailer of the 2018 documentary, Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDbZemxuK4; and Ben’s website, a treasure house of his storie…

Nuremberg’s Holocaust Proof

…drafting and editing what became his famous opinion for the Court in the no-compelled-flag-salute case, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. It includes this paragraph: Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial o…

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…