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Seminar on Civil Liberties Is Set
Focus will be on lessons learned
Leading authorities in history, law and policy will
discuss parallels between threats to American civil liberties in the
aftermath of the September 11 attacks and the internment of
Japanese-American citizens and Japanese during World War II at a
half-day seminar at UCLA on Saturday, February 16.
Civil rights lawyer Dal Minami will deliver the keynote address.
Then professors Eric Yamamoto from the University of Hawaii,
Margaret Chon from Seattle University, Carol Izumi, George Washington
University; Jerry Kang, UCLA; and Frank Wu, Howard University, will
discuss their book, “Race, Rights and Reparation Law and the Japanese
American Internment.”
Finally, professors Khaled Abou El Fadi, UCLA; Leti Volpp, American
University Washington College of Law, Ketu Katrack, UC Irvine, as well
as Thomas Saenz, vice president of the Mexican-American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, and Joe Hicks, executive director of the Center
for the Study of Popular Culture will participate in a panel
discussion.
The seminar is sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
and the UCLA School of Law’s Concentration in Critical Race Studies.
It will be held at the UCLA School of Law, 385 Charles E. Young Drive
East, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. It is open to the public and
is free. Parking on campus is $6.
For further information, call (310) 825-2974. |
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