The West Virginia University College of Law will host the annual Edward G. Donley Memorial Lectures this month.

Professor Eric L. Muller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, will address 12/7 and 9/11: War, Liberties and the Lessons of History on Monday, Feb. 18, at 3:30 p.m. in the Lugar Courtroom.

Comparisons will be made about the state of civil liberties during the five months following the Sept. 11 and Pearl Harbor attacks. The usefulness of comparing liberty deprivations enacted through the American history also will be examined.

Muller will also speak on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 11:30 a.m. in the Lugar Courtroom on the topic Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War IIfrom his recent book of the same title.

Professor Muller is a 1987 graduate of the Yale Law School. Following a judicial clerkship and his position as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Appeals Division of the U.S. Attorneys Office in Newark, N.J., Muller took a full-time teaching position at the University of Wyoming College of Law, where he received an award for outstanding teaching. Muller joined the University of North Carolina Law School faculty in 1998.

The Edward G. Donley Memorial Lectures are conducted annually under the direction of the faculty of the WVU College of Law. They are made possible through income from a trust fund created in memory of Edward G. Donley by Eleanor T. Donley, his widow and by Robert T. Donley, his son, now both deceased.