It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas – and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in concentration camps, tearing them from their homes on the West Coast with the ostensible goal of neutralizing a supposed internal threat. At each of these camps the government places a white lawyer with contradictory instructions: provide legal counsel to the prisoners, but keep the place running.
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe, Eric L. Muller brings to vivid life the stories of three of these men, illuminating a shameful episode of American history through imaginative narrative deeply grounded in archival evidence. As we look through the lawyers’ sometimes clear and sometimes clouded eyes, what emerges is a powerful look at the day-by-day, brick-by-brick perpetration of racial injustice—not just by the system itself, but by the men struggling to do good within it.
This program will be held:
In-Person and Online
Fordham Law School
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Author:
Eric L. Muller
Author of Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe
Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics
University of North Carolina School of Law
Moderated by:
Hon. Denny Chin
Senior Circuit Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Co-Director, Center on Asian Americans and the Law
Additional Commentary By:
Bruce A. Green
Louis Stein Chair of Law
Director, Stein Center
Thomas H. Lee
Leitner Family Professor of International Law
Co-Director, Center on Asian Americans and the Law
Agenda:
6 — 7 p.m. Book Talk with Professor Eric Muller
7 — 8 p.m. Cocktail Reception
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