{{Short description|American lawyer}} {{Infobox person | name = Eric Yamamoto | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = Scholarship In Racial Justice: Racial Reconciliation & Redress | occupation = Law Professor/Scholar | years_active = 1975–present }}
'''Eric Yamamoto''' (publishing as '''Eric K. Yamamoto'''), the Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice<ref>{{cite news |title=Law School Professor Eric Yamamoto Awarded Fred. T. Korematsu Professorship |url=http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=5037 |access-date=April 18, 2012 |work=University of Hawaiʻi News |date=April 17, 2012}}</ref> at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, is an internationally recognized<ref name=equaljusticesociety>{{cite web|last=Kamisugi|first=Keith|title=Eric Yamamoto, University of Hawaii Law Professor, Honored For Outstanding Contributions To Justice| date=12 November 2009 |url=http://www.equaljusticesociety.org/2009/11/eric-yamamoto-university-of-hawaii-law-professor-and-ejs-board-member-honored-for-outstanding-contributions-to-justice/|publisher=Equal Justice Society|access-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref> expert on issues of racial justice, including racial reconciliation and redress.<ref>{{cite web|last=Carbado |first=Devon |title=The Law and Economics of Critical Race Theory |url=http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/112-7/carbagulFINAL.pdf |work=The Law and Economic of Critical Race Theory |publisher=Yale Law Journal |access-date=March 27, 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929134916/http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/112-7/carbagulFINAL.pdf |archive-date=September 29, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kriefels|first=Susan|title=The Attorney General Is Asked To Investigate The Destruction of Religious Shrines By Developers|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/05/04/news/story5.html|access-date=March 27, 2012|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|date=May 4, 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Brophy|first=Alfred|title=The Utility and Disadvantages of Reparations|url=http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/repara29d.htm|publisher=DePaul Law Review|access-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Headley |first=Clevis |title=Reparations, Hermeneutical Injustice and Disciplinary Decadence: On the Limits of Political Philosophy |url=http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/histphil/Philosophy/CHiPS/2011/papers/headley2011.pdf |access-date=March 27, 2012 |newspaper=University of West Indies |date=September 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Flowing from the landmark 1944 Korematsu v. United States case, he is known for his work as a member of Fred Korematsu's 1983 legal team that succeeded in having Korematsu's original conviction overturned.
==Background== After graduating from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1975, Yamamoto earned his Juris Doctor from the University of California Berkeley, School of Law in 1978.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Eric Yamamoto |url=http://www.law.hawaii.edu/personnel/yamamoto/eric |publisher=William S. Richardson School of Law |access-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref>
==Advocacy== {{Further | Korematsu v. United States}}
Yamamoto worked on Korematsu v. United States, a landmark United States Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066 during World War II which led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans from California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Territory of Alaska.<ref name=equaljusticesociety /><ref>{{cite news |last=Walters |first=Heidi |title=Dissent Remembered |url=http://www.northcoastjournal.com/arts/2012/01/26/dissent-remembered/ |access-date=March 27, 2012 |newspaper=North Coast Journal |date=January 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Chow |first=Andrew |title=Landmark APA Legal Team Demands Commissioner's Ouster |url=http://asianweek.com/2002_08_09/news_korematsu.html |publisher=Asian Week |access-date=March 27, 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609142426/http://www.asianweek.com/2002_08_09/news_korematsu.html |archive-date=June 9, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=School of Law Marks Launch of Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality |url=http://www.law.seattleu.edu/x5543.xml |access-date=March 27, 2012 |newspaper=Seattle University |date=April 18, 2011 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609150614/http://www.law.seattleu.edu/x5543.xml |archive-date=June 9, 2010 }}</ref> As a member of Fred Korematsu's legal team, Yamamoto provided co-counsel for his 1983 coram nobis petition, successfully challenging the constitutionality of his conviction for resisting internment,<ref>{{cite web |title=Korematsu's Legal Team |url=http://korematsuinstitute.org/institute/aboutfred/korematsus-legal-team/ |publisher=Korematsu Institute |access-date=March 27, 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203000435/http://korematsuinstitute.org/institute/aboutfred/korematsus-legal-team/ |archive-date=February 3, 2012}}</ref> resulting in Korematsu's original conviction being overturned.<ref name=equaljusticesociety />
==Scholarship== Among his other writings, Yamamoto is the award-winning<ref>{{cite news|title=UH Professor's Book Wins National Award|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/12/26/news/briefs.html|access-date=March 27, 2012|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|date=December 26, 2000}}</ref> author and coauthor of two books:
*''Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation In Post-Civil Rights America''<ref>{{cite book |last=Yamamoto |first=Eric |title=Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America (Critical America Series)|year=2000|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=0814796966|pages=352}}</ref> *''Race, Rights, and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment''<ref>{{cite book |title=Race, Rights, and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment |first1=Eric K. |last1=Yamamoto |first2=Margaret |last2=Chon |first3=Carol L. |last3=Izumi |author-link3=Frank H. Wu#Personal life |first4=Jerry |last4=Kang |author-link4=Jerry Kang |first5=Frank H. |last5=Wu |author-link5=Frank H. Wu |year=2001 |publisher=Aspen Publishers, Inc. |location=Gaithersburg |isbn=0-7355-2393-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/racerightsrepara00yama/mode/2up |access-date=2022-08-23 |via=Internet Archive |url-access=limited}}</ref>
As well as the sole author of one book about the Korematsu case:
*''In the Shadow of Korematsu'' (2018)<ref>{{cite book |title=In the Shadow of Korematsu |first=Eric K. |last=Yamamoto |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York City |isbn=9780190878955 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz5MDwAAQBAJ |access-date=2022-08-23 |via=Google Books |url-access=limited}}</ref>
==Awards== In 2012, the Consortium of Asian-American Law Professors created a national award in Yamamoto's name, "The Professor Eric Y. Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award," in recognition of his "exemplary scholarship in racial justice and inspiration to emerging scholars."<ref>{{cite news|last=Matsushima|first=Tracy|title=National Award Named For UH Professor|url=http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2012/02/01/yamamoto-emerging-scholar/|access-date=March 27, 2012|newspaper=University of Hawaii|date=February 1, 2012}}</ref><ref name=VictoriaAdv>{{cite news|title=Hawaii Law Professor Recognized By National Group|url=http://m.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2012/feb/02/bc-hi-professor-honored/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205181527/http://m.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2012/feb/02/bc-hi-professor-honored/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2013|access-date=March 27, 2012|newspaper=Victoria Advocate|date=February 12, 2012}}</ref> The award is to be granted annually to a United States law professor that is early in career who demonstrates outstanding promise.<ref name=VictoriaAdv/>
In 2006, the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) awarded Yamamoto its national "Great Teacher Award," awarded annually, in recognition of both his "teaching of social justice" and for "expanding access to justice."<ref name=equaljusticesociety /><ref>{{cite web|title=Teacher of the Year Award |url=http://www.saltlaw.org/contents/view/2012_SaltTeacherAward |publisher=Society of American Law Teachers |access-date=March 27, 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827175942/http://www.saltlaw.org/contents/view/2012_SaltTeacherAward |archive-date=August 27, 2011}}</ref>
==External links== *[http://www.law.hawaii.edu/personnel/yamamoto/eric Eric Yamamoto] *[http://korematsuinstitute.org/ Korematsu Institute]
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