
Professor Eric L. Mueller
We are thrilled to welcome Professor Eric L. Mueller back to the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum Distinguished Speaker Program. Professor Mueller is a distinguished legal historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An award winning educator and author, he has written acclaimed books and curated impactful museum exhibits. Among his notable works is Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe which exams the complex roles of lawyers during the incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II
Since 2011, he as served as a faculty member with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the study of professional ethics, and in 2018, he became it's Academic Director. His scholarship explores the intersection of law, ethics and history focusing on the roles of professionals in shaping systems of injustice.
This year, professor Mueller will turn his attention to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II- Examining the legal, social and ethical dimension of this dark chapter in American history