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Eric K. Yamamoto is an award-winning, internationally recognized Professor of law at William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i. He is known for his legal work and scholarship on social justice, with an emphasis on redress for historic injustice; Professor Yamamoto also specializes in civil procedure and complex litigation. In 1984 he served as coram nobis Co-counsel to Fred Korematsu in the successful reopening of the infamous World War II Japanese American internment case. In April 2012 Yamamoto was appointed to a prestigious new professorship, The Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice, in recognition of his teaching, mentoring, scholarship, and justice work.
Updated October 2013