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 […]
The Robert H. Jackson Center is pleased to welcome the remarkable talent of Living Voices (part of TheatreWorks USA) on Wednesday and Thursday, June 15&16, 2022 to perform “Through the Eyes of a Friend” in our Cappa Theatre. This live, interactive performance will offer the audience a view into the world of Anne Frank from the […]
The Robert H. Jackson Center is pleased to welcome the remarkable talent of Living Voices (part of TheatreWorks USA) on Wednesday and Thursday, June 15&16, 2022 to perform “The New American” in our Cappa Theatre. This live, interactive performance will ask the audience to question what it means to start a new life in a new […]
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 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 […]
From Jamestown to Nuremberg to the World Today
The Robert H. Jackson Center in partnership with the Public International Law & Policy Group and New York State Bar Association International Section presents leading experts on Ukraine and international humanitarian law and will discuss the considerations to establish an international tribunal to hold Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine and the atrocities committed.Participants:Ambassador […]
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 International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and was the Secretary-General's representative at the 1998 U.N. Conference that adopted the Rome Statute of the International Criminal […]
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. Together, they visit schools, festivals, and academic or historical institutions, spreading their message that their mutual history can be a tool to create unity and […]
Fall is upon us and Tea Time is back! Join Jackson Center President Kristan K. McMahon and Radio Free Asia President Bay Fang to discuss the importance of a free press, free speech, and the impact of Radio Free Asia. At Radio Free Asia, Ms. Fang oversees award-winning journalism with the mission of bringing free […]
Register here Join us on Wednesday, October 12, when Professor Brad Snyder will present, "50 Years after Flood v. Kuhn." After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded Curt Flood, their star center fielder, to the Philadelphia Phillies. When a player was traded, he had two options - to report to his new team […]
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 the Broken Glass).In commemoration of Kristallnacht, Dr. Michael Bryant will present: Malevolent Intentions and the Play of Circumstance: the Pogrom of November 1938 and Hitler's […]
