Habeas Corpus, the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII, and the Untold Story of How a Heroic Young Woman and Fearless Leader Closed the Camps

Talk Description:  Berkeley Law Professor Amanda Tyler is an expert on the history and application of habeas corpus. She has studied and written extensively about the evolution of the habeas writ in 17th century English law, through American constitutional development, and its wartime applications and modern counterterrorism-era cases. Her talk will connect this deep constitutional history to her current book project exploring the heroism of the petitioner in a little-known habeas case that went all the way to the Supreme Court and directly led to the closing of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. In so doing, Tyler will explore a period that presented issues of pressing contemporary relevance involving executive power, individual liberty, and the rule of law.

Bio:  Amanda L. Tyler holds the inaugural Thomas David & Judith Swope Clark Chair in Constitutional Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Professor Tyler earned a degree in public policy from Stanford University, where she played on the DI women’s soccer team, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Following law school, Professor Tyler served as a law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court. She joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2012,  and in 2020, she received the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. In 2017, she was a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Law Department of the London School of Economics and the Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor.

She is the author of Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay, Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction, and co-author, with the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union.

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Jan joined Heffernan Insurance Brokers in 2005 and is now Executive Vice President. She is the one of the few brokers who works with clients on a “Referral Only” basis. Prior to merging her firm with Heffernan, Jan was President and CEO of J.Berthold Insurance Service Inc. and a Principal of All West Insurance Brokers, one of the top five closely held insurance brokerage firms in Silicon Valley.

Jan graduated from the University of San Francisco, has over 25 years of commercial insurance experience, and holds the insurance designations of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, Chartered Life Underwriter, and Chartered Financial Consultant. She has been an Advisor for the California State Senate Committee on Insurance and is a featured writer for the Business Journal. In 1999, she was named Small Business Owner of the Year by the San Jose Mercury News and the Women’s Fund. In addition, The Business Journal named her Enterprising Woman of the Year in 2003. Jan also received the YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award in May of 2016.
Jan has written two books. ‘The 80/20 CFO- How To Make Strategic Transformations in Your Company’ is an international best seller on Amazon and was listed #1 in the CFO Summer Reading List in Forbes Magazine. ‘Getting to Zero- How to Slash Workers Compensation Costs, Minimize Risk and Improve Your Bottom Line’ comes very highly recommended and is a great introduction in reducing workers comp cost.