Article
Justice Jackson's Persistent Post-Nuremberg Legacy
Judicature
(2021)
Abstract
Robert Houghwout Jackson became the 82nd associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941. Four years later, he took a leave of absence to serve as U.S. chief of counsel for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials. He returned to the Court in 1946 with a reinvigorated passion for criminal procedure that continues to shape American jurisprudence to this day. Jackson’s post-Nuremberg legacy — what I call his “dispassionate approach” to criminal procedure — continues to shape modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. That approach, 75 years after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials, also continues to shape the evolution of law in the United States.
Keywords
- Supreme Court,
- Criminal law,
- Criminal procedure,
- Robert Jackson,
- Nuremberg
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter December, 2021
Citation Information
Brian Gallini. "Justice Jackson's Persistent Post-Nuremberg Legacy" Judicature Vol. 105 Iss. 3 (2021) p. 18 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brian_gallini/38/