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Japan’s 1919 Racial Equality Proposal for the League of Nations Covenant
April 2 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Legal Studies and the Center for Racial and Economic Justice. Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, and former President of the Asian Law and Society Association, will offer historical insights into Japan’s effort to outlaw racial inequality in international law at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and examine the impact of this proposal on African American legal scholars and activists such as WEB Dubois, William L. Patterson, and Paul Robeson, who submitted the petition We Charge Genocide to the United Nations in 1951, and related historical links among Japanese, American, and Caribbean political activists.
Hiroshi Fukurai is Professor of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz & President of the Asian Law & Society Association (2018-2019). Professor Fukurai specializes in lay adjudication, Asian law and politics, Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law (ONAIL), private international law, and race and law. He is a co-founder of the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) “East Asian Law and Society” and the International Research Collaborative (IRC) “The State and the Corporation as Legal Fictions: Original Nation and Dissent” at the Law and Society Association (LSA). His receht books include: People’s Prosecution Review Commissions & Japan’s Prosecution (2022); Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law: The Quest for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature in the Age of Anthropocene (2021); Civil Jury Trials will Democratize Japan (2020); East Asia’s Renewed Respect for the Rule of Law in the 21st Century (2015).
Light lunch and refreshments to be served.
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