[Peace] Peter Irons at Unit One/Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

please forward to anyone who might be interested:

Peter Irons will be a Guest-in-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall 9/29-10/2. He
will be speaking at Allen Hall each night of his residency. See below for his
schedule. All programs are open to the public and take place in the Main Lounge
of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana. Parking is available in the parking
garage across the street after 5pm. Call 333-8351 for more information or check
out our website: www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/unit1

About Peter Irons:
Peter Irons is Professor of Political Science at the University of California,
San Diego and Director of the Earl Warren Bill of Rights Project. Professor
Irons is the author of six books on the Supreme Court and constitutional
litigation and has contributed to numerous law reviews and other journals. He
is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney and was lead counsel in the
1980’s in the successful effort to reverse the World War II criminal
convictions of Japanese-Americans who challenged the curfew and relocation
orders. He was also elected to two terms on the national board of the American
Civil Liberties Union. His award winning books include Jim Crow’s Children: The
Broken Promise of the Brown Decision, and A People’s History of the Supreme
Court. Irons visit is co-sponsored by the Chancellor’s Brown v Board of
Education Commemoration Committee, the Campus Honors Program and Residential
Life.

Schedule:
Monday, September 29 
8:00pm - Opening Program: “Both Sides of the Law: From Prison Bars to the
Supreme Court Bar”
Tuesday, September 30
7:00pm - “Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism”
9:00pm - “The Supreme Court: Should Un-Elected Judges Decide Our Rights?”
Wednesday, October 1
7:00pm - “Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision”
Thursday, October 2
7:00pm - “America’s Concentration Camps: Lessons From the Japanese American
Internment of World War Two”

Laura Haber
Assistant Program Director of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
l-haber at uiuc.edu



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