Battle of The Books

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY

REGISTRATION FOR BATTLE OF THE BOOKS IS FULL!! The Robert H. Jackson Center is inviting grade school educators to bring your team to our Battle of the Books event on Saturday, May 14, 2022 beginning at 2pm. We are looking for teachers to lead up to eight teams of students in grades 6-8 who are […]

Free
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17th Annual Young Readers Program

Reg Lenna Center for the Arts 116 E 3rd St,, Jamestown, NY

The Robert H. Jackson Center is thrilled to welcome Lesa Cline-Ransome as the featured speaker for its 17th Annual Young Readers Program. The Young Readers Program uses literature to engage young people with their world by inspiring them to read and hone their analytical skills and writing ability. This year, the Jackson Center has invited […]

Free

Filed Away: The Western Powers, Soviet Crimes and the Nuremberg Tribunal

Virtual Event

Our 2022 Al and Marge Brown Lecture features Richard Overy. This lecture is being offered as a webinar.Richard Overy is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, where he taught for ten years after a long spell at King's College, London. He has written extensively on the world wars and the European dictatorships, […]

Reva Siegel: 18th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chautauqua Institution

Reva Siegel will give the 18th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States. Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where her scholarship draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government […]

$15

14th Annual International Law Roundtable Welcome

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY

This year's recipient is Hans Corell, who served as Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel of the United Nations from March 1994 to March 2004. He helped establish the […]

Constitution Day Program: Plessy v. Ferguson

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY

FROM VS TO &: A LIVING LEGACY After meeting through a mutual friend Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson began a partnership that eventually blossomed into the Plessy & Ferguson foundation. […]

Kristallnacht Commemoration

Daemen College 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY

On November 9, 1938, a mass torching of synagogues, vandalism and pillaging of businesses, murders and arrests were widespread in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. This atrocity is known as Kristallnacht (Night of […]

Barnette at 80 & What It Means Today

The Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E 4th ST, Jamestown, NY

*Please note: due to the format of the event, we will be unable to broadcast through teleconferencing. We appreciate your understanding.*June 14, 2023 (Flag Day) will mark the 80th anniversary […]