Eric L. Muller

Who is Eric L. Muller?

Eric Leigh Muller is the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He previously taught at the University of Wyoming College of Law. He is the author of American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II which was published in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press and Free to Die for their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II which was published in 2001 by the University of Chicago Press and was named a Top Nonfiction Title for 2001 by The Washington Post. He graduated from Brown University in 1984, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa member. He received his J.D. from Yale University in 1987. He has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and many other scholarly journals.

Muller maintains a blog, "Is That Legal?"

Muller's blogging activities have included periodic posts about his search for information about the life and death of his great-uncle Leopold Müller, a Jew from the town of Bad Kissingen in Germany whom the Nazis deported to his death from Würzburg in April 1942, as well as a detailed critique of Michelle Malkin's book In Defense of Internment, which defended internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II.