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Friday, June 17, 2016

Lecture on Nuremberg Trials on war crimes and World Law (Springfield Synagogue, June 27 evening)

John Q. Barrett

The Cardozo Society invites you to a very special presentation - JOHN Q. BARRETT "The Rule of Law at Nuremberg and Lessons for Today," Monday, June 27, 2016, Sangamo Club, 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. Presentation.  RSVP no later than June 20 to (217)-787-7223 x18 or sjf@shalomspringfield.org .
Professor Barrett, Professor of Law at St. John’s University, is a noted scholar on U. S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and the Nuremberg Trials. He has been Counselor to the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, and Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh (Iran/Contra). He lectures around the world, with recent presentations at the Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City,       Canada’s National Judicial Institute and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington D.C. He also addresses synagogue audiences and Yom HaShoah commemoration services. He is working on a biography of the late Justice Jackson. that will include the first inside account of Justice Jackson’s service as chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, Germany, during 1945-1946.

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Timothy Shaw said...

Jewish Federation of Springfield, IL: http://www.shalomspringfield.org/index.php/about-us/our-federation