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INTRODUCTION turn to Justice Jackson, a native son, to receive an honorary degree and address the convocation.'In introducing Jackson's speech, the University's Chancellor, Samuel P. Capen, noted that Jackson" was for many years a neighbor, an intimate friend and associate of members of the [University] Council and of the faculty of the University's School of Law, and of other leaders of the bench and bar in this community.'7 But the occasion was not just a celebration of a milestone for a local community; Chancellor Capen also understood the broader significance of Jackson's appearance at a public forum at that particular moment in history: Capen observed that" out of [Jackson's] imagination and wisdom has come a new formulation of the responsibilities of states and statesmen, the basis of a new hope for the war-torn human race that the rule of law and of justice may at last control the relations of nations …