Professor Harry N. Scheiber

will speak at 12:00 noon

January 19, 2010

1913 Courtroom, Ali‘iōlani Hale

417 S. King Street

CO-SPONSORED BY THE JUDICIARY HISTORY CENTER, THE WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON SCHOOL OF LAW, AND THE HAWAII STATE BAR ASSOCIATION

Harry N. Scheiber

Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley; Director, Institute for Legal Research; Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law; Co-director, Law of the Sea Institute

Harry N. Scheiber is the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley. Professor Scheiber is teaching a seminar at UH entitled, “Emergency Powers and Civil Liberties in American Constitutional History,” focusing on a selected set of episodes in American History when government exercised emergency powers, with emphasis on Japanese-American internment, martial law and the current “war on terror” policies.

Professor Scheiber has written extensively on American Legal History, federalism, and constitutional development.For more information

please call539-4999

jhchawaii.net R.S.V.P. to 539-4999

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Martial Law in WWII: Life and Law in Hawai‘i under Army Rule