Hirabayashi and the Invasion Evasion

November 10, 2010 • 12:15 PM • Law School 3041

Professor Eric Muller, UNC School of Law, will present "Hirabayashi and the Invasion Evasion." In this lecture, Professor Muller presents archival evidence demonstrating that government lawyers made a crucial misrepresentation to the United States Supreme Court in the case of Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81 (1943), the case that upheld the constitutionality of a racial curfew imposed on Japanese Americans in World War II. Sponsored by the Law & History Society. This event will be webcast. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Andrei Mamolea at am200@duke.edu.