CONNECTICUT ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION SIGNS ON TO LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL DEAN DENOUNCING ARTICLE ON “COMFORT WOMEN” BY PROFESSOR MARK RAMSEYER
The Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association (“CAPABA”) joins the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (“NAPABA”) in demanding that Harvard Law School rebuke Professor J. Mark Ramseyer for his flawed and misleading recent publications concerning “comfort women.”
For years, the Asian American community has sought to support and educate the public about the plight of “comfort women” and other human trafficking victims, past and present. The government of Japan, in the 1930’s through the end of World War II, forced women to provide sex to its soldiers; these thousands of victims of sexual slavery, commonly referred to as “Comfort Women,” were kidnapped or coerced from countries including China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and the Philippines.
Harvard Law Professor Ramseyer’s recent writings convey an offensive and wholly unsupported narrative in which these victims were willing participants.
CAPABA President Dan A. Brody states, “CAPABA joins NAPABA in urging Harvard Law School to disavow this professor’s inaccurate and inappropriate writings, which fall short of the standards expected of Harvard Law School’s scholarship.”
The letter to Harvard Law School is attached.
NAPABA’s 2014 Statement on comfort women is here.
About the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association
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Phone: (860) 275-6416
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