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University of Hawai'i |
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For Immediate Release: |
December 11, 2000 |
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Eric Yamamoto |
| UH Law Professor Wins National Book Award |
On December 10, 2000, Human Rights Day, Professor Eric Yamamoto received a national award for his recent book, Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America. The award - the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Books Award for the year 2000 - recognizes outstanding books in the areas of human rights, civil rights and social justice. A panel of distinguished judges selected Yamamoto's work as one of the ten best books published for all of North America.
Professor Yamamoto is well known nationally for his writing, teaching and lawyering work on civil and human rights and racial justice. He received his BA from the University of Hawai`i in 1975 and obtained his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley in 1978. After practicing for six years at Case, Kay & Lynch, a large law firm in Honolulu, he returned to UH in 1985 to teach courses in Civil Procedure and Race, Culture and the Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law. He was named the Outstanding Law Professor three times, in 1986, 1995, and 1998 and was awarded the university-wide Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching in both 1990 and 1998.
In addition, Professor Yamamoto was presented the Korematsu Civil Rights Award in 1994 and also served on the University Council of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace. This past summer he received a Rockefeller Foundation Award for international scholars and studied at the Bellagio Institute in Italy.
In his book, Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America, Professor Yamamoto explores the relationship between communities of color through race history, legal theory, theology, social psychology, and concrete stories. He not only examines the conflict that exists in a multiracial America but also focuses on the healing that is achieved through justice.
The Gustavus Myers Program was founded in 1984 in honor of Gustavus Myers (1872-1942), a groundbreaking historian who researched and wrote about social justice in America. Each year, the Program invites publishers and readers to nominate exemplary books and selects those that best contribute to the ongoing national dialogue of building equitable communities and societies.
