Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking webinar with Professor Amanda Tyler as we explore the life and legacy of Mitsuye Endo, the pivotal yet often overlooked figure in the history of Japanese-American incarceration during World War II. In 1944, Endo became the plaintiff in Ex parte Endo, a landmark Supreme Court case that played a critical role in ending the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Despite being confined to an incarceration camp along with thousands of others, Endo’s legal battle affirmed the principle that loyal American citizens could not be held without cause. The case helped bring an end to the policy that forcibly relocated and detained over 120,000 people of Japanese descent during the war.
We will examine how Endo’s courageous stand has been overshadowed in popular narratives and why her story deserves more recognition. Don’t miss this opportunity to uncover the untold story of Mitsuye Endo and her crucial role in one of the most important legal battles in American history.
Amanda L. Tyler holds the inaugural Thomas David & Judith Swope Clark Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Professor Tyler’s research and teaching interests include the Supreme Court, federal courts, constitutional law, legal history, civil procedure, and statutory interpretation. She is the co-author, with the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union, published by the University of California. The book is an outgrowth of Justice Ginsburg’s 2019 visit to Berkeley Law when she and Tyler sat down for a conversation about Justice Ginsburg’s life. Tyler is also the author of Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay, published in 2017 by Oxford University Press as well as Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction.Since 2016, Professor Tyler has served as a co-editor of Hart and Wechsler’s The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press), publishing annual supplements to the Seventh Edition through 2023 (with Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Jack L. Goldsmith, John F. Manning, and David L. Shapiro). She is a past Chair of the Federal Courts Section of the American Association of Law Schools and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. In 2020, Professor Tyler received the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction.
Professor Tyler holds a degree in Public Policy, with honors and distinction, from Stanford University, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. At Stanford, she played on the Division I Women’s Soccer Team.
Following law school, Professor Tyler served as a law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States. She also practiced as an associate with the law firm of Sidley & Austin in Washington, D.C.