A Law and Public Policy Conversation with Don Tamaki

2607 Hearst Avenue,Berkeley CA 94720

31 March, 2022

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From Korematsu/ Japanese American Internment Justice to Reparations for Black Californians As California, the nation, and other jurisdictions grapple with designing reparations for Black Americans, we examine what can be learned from the movement for Japanese American reparations. Join us for a conversation with civil rights lawyer Don Tamaki, a member of the California Reparations Task Force and of the legal team that reopened the landmark US Supreme Court case, Korematsu v. United States. In the original Korematsu decision, the US Supreme Court in 1944 upheld the constitutionality of the mass incarceration of US citizens without due process. Tamaki is also Co-Founder of StopRepeatingHistory.Org, a campaign focused on drawing parallels between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the targeting of groups today based on race or religion. The campaign’s current work is focused on multiracial solidarity to support the movement for Black Reparations. Tamaki received his JD from Berkeley Law. This event is hosted by the UCB Goldman School of Public Policy’s Law & Public Policy course. The conversation will be moderated by GSPP Law & Public Policy Lecturer Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin, and joined by Joanna Billingy, Policy Director for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None (invited).