A Seminar for Law Students on Professional Identity
at the site of a WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans
Lawyers helped at every step when the government locked up 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans on account of race.
They knew the camps were unjust but chose to run them anyway. In this three-and-one-half day intensive seminar, we study their choices to understand our own power to shape who we become as professionals.
Under the guidance of Professor Eric L. Muller, one of the nation’s foremost experts , you’ll dig deep into the tragic story of the wartime uprooting and imprisonment of Japanese Americans at a world-class museum, the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center and Mineta-Simpson Institute outside Cody, Wyoming.
You’ll explore the spaces where Japanese Americans endured years of unjust confinement and built a community behind barbed wire. There’s no better place to understand — and feel — the consequences of the wartime lawyers’ work than in the place where it happened.
You’ll have time to reflect on the history you’re encountering, the complex complicity of lawyers in shaping it, and your own professional values and goals.
Whether you’re learning history, discussing ethical choices, taking in historical sites, eating meals, enjoying some down time in your lodgings, or browsing cowboy boots in a western wear store, you’ll be together with interesting and engaged colleagues who share your interests in professional development and ethical lawyering.
Surrounded by stunning vistas of mountains and high desert, you’ll encounter a landscape known to indigenous peoples long before the arrival of white settlers in the 19th century and, though not by choice, Japanese Americans in the 20th.
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