Symposium
Thursday, January 15, 1:00-5:00 PM – Baker Center
Conscientious Objectors and Draft Resisters: Protests of the Japanese Removal and Incarceration
- 1:00 - 1:15 Welcome and Introductions
- 1:15-2:15 PM “Confrontation at the Locks: Conscientious Objectors Protest the Japanese Removal and Incarceration”
Jeffrey Kovac
Professor of Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Tennessee
Author of “Confrontation at the Locks: A Protest of the Japanese Removal and Incarceration.” (Oregon Historical Quarterly, Winter 2006)
- 2:15-3:15 PM “Japanese American Draft Resisters”
Eric L. Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics
University of North Carolina School of Law
Author of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II.
- 3:30-4:30 PM "Staying True to Our Values in a National Security Crisis: Lessons of the WWII Internment of Japanese-Americans"
Michael Bess
Chancellor’s Professor of History
Vanderbilt University
Author of Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II.
Friday, January 16, 1:00-5:00 PM – Baker Center
Civil Liberties, National Security and the Legacies of Hirabayashi v. US
- 1:00-1:15 PM Welcome and Introductions
- 1:15-2:15 PM “Invasion Prevarication: Telling Lies to the Supreme Court in Hirabayashi v. United States”
Eric L. Muller
Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics
University of North Carolina School of Law
Author of American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II.
- 2:15-2:45 PM “U. S. Detention Policy in Response to the 9/11 Attacks: Past, Present and Future”
Vijay Padmanabhan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Cardozo School of Law
As a member of the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State, Professor Padmanabhan served as the Department's chief counsel on Guantanamo and Iraq detainee litigation, as well as other litigation implicating the law of war. He collaborated with the Departments of Justice and Defense on all aspects of the Supreme Court litigation in the Hamdan, Boumediene, and Munaf/Omar cases.
- 2:45-3:15 PM “Wartime Changes in Domestic Law”
Kristen L. Winemiller
Attorney at Law
Portland, OR
Kristen Winemiller has represented many high profile criminal defendants, including Jeffrey Battle, the lead defendant in the "Portland Seven" terrorism case. Following the enactment of the USA Patriot Act, Battle was the first US citizen prosecuted using secret wiretap evidence obtained under the expanded surveillance powers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which effectively reduced judicial review.
- 3:30-4:30 PM PANEL
All Speakers
Moderated by John Winemiller
Attorney at LawMerchant and Gould, PC.