On January 15th, Professor John Q. Barrett gave the keynote lecture in Philadelphia at the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society’s meeting.

The Brandeis Society, an association of Jewish lawyers, judges, law students and others, conferred the “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson Award for the Pursuit of Justice” on three university students who have worked actively against antisemitism, including on their campuses, since October 7, 2023: Alexander L.S. Bernat (Harvard University), Noa Fay (Barnard College/Columbia University), and Robert Newman (Drexel University).

Professor Barrett spoke about Justice Brandeis, Justice Jackson, Jews, the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials after World War II of Nazi war criminals, and Zionism, and also about gentle temperament, learning, human rights, religion, tolerance, law, and hope.