The Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association and the NOCCCD Office of Diversity & Compliance present:
"The Persisting Significance of the Incarceration of Japanese Americans"
Eric Yamamoto
Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice
University of Hawai’i at Manoa, School of Law
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 16th, 2022
Time: 1:00-2:30
Location: Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 954 6134 4320
Password: 774774
2022 marks the 80th anniversary
of Executive Order 9066 initiating the World War II incarceration of 120,000
Japanese Americans on what turned out to be falsified claims of group
disloyalty. This mass racial treatment,
and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1944 Korematsu decision legally validating it,
remain startingly significant today. What will happen when those detained,
harassed or discriminated against in the name of national security turn to the
courts for legal protection? How will
the U.S. courts respond to the need both to promote security and to protect
fundamental democratic liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights?
Professor Yamamoto is nationally and internationally
recognized for his legal work and scholarship on civil procedure as well as
national security and civil liberties, civil and human rights and social
justice, with an emphasis on reconciliation initiatives and reparations for
historic injustice. His presentation will be informed by his recent book, In
the Shadow of Korematsu: Democratic
Liberties and National Security.
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