John Q. Barrett, discoverer and editor of Robert H. Jackson's acclaimed book That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt and writer of the popular blog The Jackson List, joins author and constitutional scholar Gerard Magliocca, author of The Actual Art of Governing: Justice Robert H. Jackson's Concurring Opinion in the Steel Seizure Case, and G. Edward White, author of Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment, to discuss the Justice’s influential concurrence in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, his approach to constitutional interpretation, and the lasting legacy he left on debates over presidential power. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This program is presented in partnership with the Robert H. Jackson Center.
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John Q. Barrett Is the Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law at St. John’s University. Barrett is also the Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, N.Y.
Gerard N. Magliocca is the Distinguished Professor and Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
Edward White is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Additional Resources
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John Q. Barrett, The Jackson List
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Robert H. Jackson and John Q. Barrett (editor), That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (2004)
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G. Edward White, Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment (2025)
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G. Edward White, The American Judicial Tradition: Profile of Leading American Judges (2007)
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