We envision a global society where the universal principles of equality, fairness, and justice prevail.
For over twenty years, we have honored and promoted the legacy of Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Chief U.S. Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
The Jackson Center advances the legacy of Justice Robert H. Jackson through education, using a variety of methods including in-person and virtual programs and presentations, exhibits, available media, and scholarship. We demonstrate the contemporary relevance and applicability of Justice Jackson’s ideas and work to current and future generations.
Dr. Andrew Perrin is the Chair of the Sociology Department and the SNF-Agora Professor in the sociology department at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is a cultural and political sociologist working on issues of democracy, including civic engagement and effects of higher education, and public.
Perrin’s research explores what people need to know, do, and be to be effective, creative and thoughtful democratic citizens. He also has studied public opinion and letters to the editor, college education’s effect on civic engagement; children’s movies, and obesity.
Perrin writes on the intersection of culture and democracy, and is an author or co-author of five books, including “Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life” and “America Democracy: From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter.”
The traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit, Voices and Votes, has come to a close. Thank you to everyone who came out to experience this unique exhibition over the past six weeks, as well to local partners who contributed to The Story of Our Participation, a companion exhibit that showed objects from the Chautauqua region that show our important role in national democratic systems.
Voices and Votes will pop up again in other museums around the state, the next being the MUNSON art museum in Utica. It returns to Western New York at the Michigan Street Baptist Church in Buffalo, August 2025.
Fortunately, several aspects of the exhibit will remain. We are still asking the public to share short stories about their relationship with democracy in a recording studio set up in the Center’s library. The RHJC is proud of its long tradition of recording oral histories, this represents the first time we are collecting stories from the public at-large. To schedule a time to record your story during the exhibit’s residency, contact a staff member at 716-483-6646, info@roberthjackson.org, or book online.
Kate Shaw, was speaker for the 20th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States, Monday, July 29, 2024 at Chautauqua Institution.
Professor Shaw is a constitutional, administrative and legislation law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She previously worked in the Obama White House Counsel’s Office and served as law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Shaw discussed the majority’s opinion in the Trump v. United States case, which draws heavily on Jackson’s concurring opinion in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co v. Sawyer. However, Shaw argued that the majority’s opinion twisted Jackson’s words to support an unprecedented level of presidential immunity – one that Jackson himself may not have endorsed.
To have a voice, to be a part of something larger than ourselves, it remains incredibly important for each of us to regularly participate in the process at all levels – local, state, and national – to ensure we are creating the just and equitable world in which we want to live.
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The Robert H. Jackson Center is making available and organizing as resources both audio and video recordings of the Nuremberg trial proceedings. This guide, featuring links to those recordings, is organized in chronological order.
The public is invited to a flag raising ceremony and cultural fair to start our observance of Native American Heritage Month and honoring the rich culture of the Haudenosaunee at […]
Raymond D’Addario was one of a few photographers assigned by the Army Pictorial Service to document the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. On November 21, 1945, senior Nazi officials took their seats in Courtroom 600 in the Palace of Justice. Ray’s photograph of the main defendants sitting in the docket surrounded by U.S. military guards has become the iconic symbol of the trial.
