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AMHERST, N.Y. – The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials will be commemorated with a special lecture by renowned legal scholar John Q. Barrett, scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct 21 in the ˿����Ƶ College Wick Campus Center Social Room.

“The 70th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials: What Happened Then and Why It Matters Now” will be addressed by Barrett, a noted expert on Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief prosecutor of Nazi war criminals in Germany. The ˿����Ƶ Paralegal Studies Speaker Series lecture is free and open to the public.

Fifty years after Jackson’s death, Barrett discovered and edited Jackson’s now acclaimed memoir, “That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Barrett, a professor of law at St. John’s University, is currently writing a biography on Jackson, a Western New York native who is considered one of most revered lawyers in U.S. history.               

Barrett’s “Jackson List” reaches tens of thousands email subscribers around the world. He is a board member and Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, and is a frequent speaker on Justice Jackson and the Nuremberg trials, FDR, and other historical and legal issues.

A graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School, Barrett was previously an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel and Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh, and was a law clerk for U.S. Circuit Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

The lecture is being co-sponsored by the ˿����Ƶ Office of Academic Affairs and the Paralegal Studies Program, Erie County Bar Association, and the Robert H. Jackson Center.