Join us for a presentation on the Jeju 4.3 Tragedy, the villagers’ criminal retrials, and the connections between their 2018 retrials and the 1980s coram nobis reopening of the resistors of the WWII Japanese American mass incarceration.
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 and human rights and social justice, with an emphasis on reconciliation initiatives and reparations for historic injustice. Yamamoto’s prolific scholarship includes Healing the Persisting Wounds of Historic Injustice: United States, South Korea and the Jeju 4.3 Tragedy (2021); Race, Rights and National Security: Law and the Japanese American Incarceration (with Bannai and Chon) (Wolter Kluwer 3rd ed. 2021); In the Shadow of Korematsu: Democratic Liberties and National Security (2018 Oxford Press); and The Jeju 4.3 Tragedy: Next Steps Toward Reconciliation (translated into Korean) (co-authored with Pettit and Lee) (2015).
Miyoko Pettit-Toledo is a proud graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law, where she joined the faculty in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Law. She currently teaches Civil Procedure I & II, Advanced Civil Procedure, and Second Year Seminar. Her scholarship has appeared in the Denver Law Review, Berkeley Journal for Gender, Law, and Justice, University of Hawai‘i Law Review, and Asia Pacific Law and Policy Journal, in addition to other publications in South Korea. She is also the co-author of The Jeju 4.3 Tragedy: Next Steps Toward Reconciliation (translated in Korean) (2015) with Professor Emeritus Eric K. Yamamoto and Sara Lee.