Join us for a conversation with Eric L. Muller, author of the newly released book Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps. Eric L. Muller is Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is editor of Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II and author of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II.

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe, brings to vivid life the stories of three white lawyers, with contradictory instructions—provide legal counsel to the prisoners, but keep the place running- illuminating a shameful episode of American history through imaginative narrative deeply grounded in archival evidence. Muller will be joined by two distinguished Cardozo law professors, Jessica Roth and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum.

Professor Jessica Roth, the Co-Director of the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law, brings an impressive background as a former federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She is also a regular legal affairs analyst on CNN, PBS, Bloomberg News, and numerous other media outlets.

Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR). Her scholarship focuses on human rights, public health, and atrocity prevention, especially related to preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based crimes, slavery and the slave trade, genocide, Indigenous rights, and human rights violations against other minority groups.

A reception will follow after the event.

**This program is approved for 1.0 transitional/non-transitional New York State CLE credits in the category “Ethics and Professionalism.” To receive CLE credits for this program, you must register as a CLE ticket and attend the program in person.

CLE readings are available here.

For any questions please email Program Coordinator, Bruna Celic at bruna.celic@yu.edu