How Japanese Canadians Shaped the Constitution

A lecture by Dr. Eric Adams, Professor of Law, University of Alberta

Thursday, November 7, 2019 – 6:30-8:30 PM

University of Toronto, Alumni Hall 400

121 St. Joseph Street (corner Queen’s Park), Toronto

Like the “Enemy That Never Was” by Ken Adachi and the “Politics of Racism” by Ann Gomer Sunahara, this lecture is a game-changer for Japanese Canadians. If you would like to gain more understanding of the current research that provides the rationale for the B.C. Redress campaign or want to keep up to date on JC history, this lecture is not to be missed. Learn about how the Canadian legal and political network was stacked against those with the courage to assert the rights of Japanese Canadians citizens. Legal challenges by Japanese Canadian’s, starting in the early 1900s have left a mark on Canadian history that the community can celebrate with pride.

Dr. Adams has lectured on Constitutional Wrongs: The Internment, Dispossession and Exile of Japanese Canadians at Oxford University, as an academic visitor, but has yet to deliver a lecture on this theme in Toronto. The recipient of several awards for his research and teaching, he publishes in the fields of constitutional law, legal history, and human rights. He is the author of several legal histories of some of Canada’s most important public law decisions and is leading the legal historical research on Landscapes of Injustice. Professor Adams is currently working on a book on the exile of Japanese Canadians after the Second World War.

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