ABSTRACT
Robert H. Jackson served as an associate justice on the US Supreme Court from 1941 until his death in late 1954. After working his way up through President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to become solicitor general and then attorney general, Jackson became the seventh of Roosevelt's eight appointees to the Court. During his Court tenure, Jackson also stepped onto the international stage by leading the prosecution in the Nuremberg war crimes trials in post–World War II Germany. Although Justice Jackson's singular pattern of decision-making placed him in the shadow of colleagues Justices Hugo L. Black and Felix Frankfurter and likely limited his influence on the development of constitutional interpretation, scholars take special note of the literary style of Jackson's opinions. Scholars have debated the extent to which Jackson's experiences at the war crimes trials pushed him toward greater conservatism in both economic and civil liberties cases upon his return to the Court in 1947.
