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Japan鈥檚 1919 Racial Equality Proposal for the League of Nations Covenant
April 2, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Legal Studies and the Center for Racial and Economic Justice.听 Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz,听and former President of the Asian Law and Society Association, will offer听historical insights into Japan鈥檚 effort to outlaw racial inequality in international law at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference听and examine the impact of this proposal on African American legal scholars and activists such as听WEB Dubois, William L. Patterson, and Paul Robeson, who submitted the petition听We Charge Genocide听to the United Nations in 1951, and related historical links among Japanese, American, and Caribbean political activists.
Hiroshi Fukurai听is Professor of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz & President of the Asian Law & Society Association (2018-2019).听 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) 鈥淓ast Asian Law and Society鈥 and the International Research Collaborative (IRC) 鈥淭he State and the Corporation as Legal Fictions: Original Nation and Dissent鈥 at the Law and Society Association (LSA).听 His receht books include:听People鈥檚 Prosecution Review Commissions听&听Japan鈥檚 Prosecution听(2022);听Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law: The Quest for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature in the Age of Anthropocene听(2021);听Civil Jury Trials will Democratize Japan听(2020);听East Asia鈥檚 Renewed Respect for the Rule of Law in the 21st听Century听(2015).
Light lunch and refreshments to be served.
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