Justice at Home

Many political differences are as superficial to the real structure of society as cosmetics are to the anatomy of the individual. It is matters affecting the anatomy of the society that lawyers chiefly deal with, and it is anatomy that societies, like individuals, differ least. 

-"Lawyers Today: The Legal Profession in a World of Paradox," address before the American Bar Association, October 28, 1946

Welcome to Justice at Home, an email newsletter from the Robert H. Jackson Center that hits your inbox every three weeks with updates on our virtual programming, lesson plans and lectures, and interesting finds from our digital archives. 

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In Case You Missed It

Our September 21, David Gill, the Consul General for Germany in New York, was the featured guest for our Cold War Secrets Revealed seminar. The evening before, Consul General Gill gave an address from the Jackson Center podium highlighting the continuing importance of educating all on the Nuremberg Trials and Jackson's work. "It was, is, and will remain crucial to keep alive the memory of important milestones in legal history and to inform subsequent generations about the roots of our understanding of law, justice, and individual responsibility for crimes."

He also lauded the work of the Jackson Center and Robert Jackson. "Robert Jackson, who was so passionate about his goals, is a role model for many. People, like him, are needed today and will be needed in the future just as much as they were back then."

We will have the recordings of both Consul General Gill's address and the entirety of the Cold War Secrets Revealed seminar on the Jackson Center's YouTube channel soon.

Coming Up at the Jackson Center

November 4 at 3:00pm ET: Tea Time with the Jackson Center, Facebook Live. In November, we will be focusing on immigration and refugee justice.

November 18 at 3:00pm: Tea Time with the Jackson Center, Facebook Live.  Steve Roth, the Executive Director of the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration (ORAM) will be our guest.

From Jackson's Desk

Robert H. Jackson was a gifted orator and writer. Many of his articles and speech transcripts are housed on our website. We feature them in our weekly #TuesdayMotivation and #SundayQuote on the Jackson Center's social media pages.

Robert Jackson often ruminated on the role lawyers play in the pursuit of justice an the trust in the rule of law. On November 2, 1953, Justice Robert H. Jackson gave an address at the laying of the cornerstone of the American Bar Center, about which the publication remarked, 'the latter part of his address took the form of a legal creed that may well survive the building whose erection it marked.':

"Rights, whether given by constitution, statute or common law, are but scraps

of paper unless a lawyer will go into the courtroom and there give concrete

effect to the abstract word...Thus the Bar has a considerable part in lawmaking,

and the prestige and authority of law as a social force at any time is very much

what the lawyers make it"

Read the rest of Jackson's thoughts in 'A Testimony to Our Faith in the Rule of Law' on our website here. 

From The Archives

This is a page from one of the Nuremberg House Telephone Directory identifying how to contact each member of the United States delegation and is a part of Fr. Moritz Fuch's collection in our archives. During the International Military Tribunal, Moritz Fuchs served as Jackson's bodyguard. Rachael Kozinski, one of our volunteer archivists, has been diligently inputting information from the Fuchs collection into our archive management system. On a tour of the Memorium Nuremberg Trials during our recent trip to Nuremberg, we learned that the offices in the Palace of Justice were renumbered some time after the IMT so they no longer correspond directly with the current rooms.