During his Fall 2020 research leave, Professor John Q. Barrett also participated virtually in these symposia and events—
- On September 9, he participated, with Dean Michael Simons and Professors Marc DeGirolami and Anita Krishnakumar, in a SJU “Law Matters” discussion of leading decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2019-2020 term.
- On September 15, Professor Barrett spoke about “Robert H. Jackson in Washington, D.C.,” at the Robert H. Jackson Center’s virtual gala.
- On October 7, he spoke on “U.S. Supreme Court, October Term 2019,” in a Federal Bar Association program (which typically is held at the U.S. Courthouse in Central Islip, NY).
- On October 21, he spoke on the Supreme Court’s Ray v. Blair (1952) decision and Justice Jackson’s views on the Electoral College, in a Robert H. Jackson Center webinar.
- Also in October, he was part of a panel on “Checks and Balances in Times of Crisis,” recorded in advance and played at the Federal Bar Council’s Virtual Fall Bench & Bar Retreat (which typically occurs in person in the Poconos).
- On November 9, he participated in a panel discussion, “The Audacity of Justice: Remembering Nuremberg,” part of a multi-day online program, “A Warning from History?: The Nuremberg Trials 75 Years Later,” hosted by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, IL.
- On November 18, Professor Barrett spoke in tribute to Whitney R. Harris, a 1945-1946 member of the U.S. prosecution team at Nuremberg, in a Twentieth Anniversary Virtual Gala hosted by the Whitney R. Harris Institute at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
- On November 20, Professor Barrett spoke online on “The Allied Consensus Model, at Nuremberg and for States in Our Time,” at “The Lessons of Nuremberg,” an International Research and Practice Forum sponsored by the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Russian Federation.
- In November, Professor Barrett participated, with many others ranging from world leaders to students, in a videotaped group reading of U.S. Chief of Counsel Robert H. Jackson’s opening statement at Nuremberg. This video was released by the Robert H. Jackson Center on November 21, the 75th anniversary of this historic event:
- On December 8, Professor Barrett spoke about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at an online tribute program hosted by the Nassau County Bar Association, Mineola, NY.