• Case Reenactment: Heart Mountain: Conscience, Loyalty and the Constitution – Japanese Internment during WWII

    Fordham University, School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

    When your government takes away your rights as an American citizen and detains you and your family in internment camps without any due process, do you prove your loyalty to the United States by reporting to fight in World War II, or do you resist the draft and challenge the constitutionality of the government’s actions? […]

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  • Birthright Citizenship: A Candid Assessment of Wong Kim Ark and Its Modern-Day Implications (Hybrid)

    Fordham University, School of Law 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco in 1873 to parents who had emigrated to the United States from China. In 1894, he took a trip to China. When he returned to San Francisco a year later, he was denied reentry, as the authorities invoked the Chinese Exclusion Act. Wong argued that he could […]

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