[1] Afterwards, Zinn helped arrange for him to work at a law firm defending Daniel Ellsberg, who was under federal prosecution at the time for stealing the Pentagon Papers.
[1] In addition to teaching and authoring several books, he has also helped reopen the wartime internment cases of Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, and Gordon Hirabayashi.
He is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego[1] and an author on legal history.
He has undertaken some legal work in issues of the separation of church and state and written some articles for the Montana Law Review.
Starting in 1989, Irons represented the plaintiffs in the Mount Soledad case in San Diego, pro bono.