In the Shadow of Korematsu - Yamamoto, Eric K
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This book discusses the present-day significance of the Supreme Court's partially discredited, yet never overruled, 1944 decision upholding the constitutional validity of the mass Japanese American exclusion leading to indefinite incarceration. It charts policymakers' and judges' "chameleonic deployment" of the muddled high court ruling alternatively to legitimate or to reject present-day security actions that undercut fundamental rights to freedom, association,religious choice, due process, and equality - rights of immigrants and citizens, protestors and justice organizations, worshippers, and journalists.…mehr

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This book discusses the present-day significance of the Supreme Court's partially discredited, yet never overruled, 1944 decision upholding the constitutional validity of the mass Japanese American exclusion leading to indefinite incarceration. It charts policymakers' and judges' "chameleonic deployment" of the muddled high court ruling alternatively to legitimate or to reject present-day security actions that undercut fundamental rights to freedom, association,religious choice, due process, and equality - rights of immigrants and citizens, protestors and justice organizations, worshippers, and journalists.
Autorenporträt
Eric K. Yamamoto is the Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his legal work and scholarship on civil procedure as well as national security and civil liberties, civil rights and social justice, with an emphasis on reconciliation initiatives and redress for historic injustice. He authored Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America (2000); Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (Second Edition, 2013), co-authored with Margaret Chon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, the Santa Clara Law School, and the City University of New York Law School.