Law School JTerm hosts Harvard Professor

The William S. Richardson School of Law proudly announces its special January Term (J-Term) course program in which Hawaii’s law students have the unique opportunity to be taught specialized mini-courses by leading national scholars and professors from around the country. Five visiting law scholars and professors, including the former president of the American Bar Associations, and law professors from Harvard Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, will offer courses in criminal law, attorney client privilege, international dispute resolution, and comparative perspectives on the constitution and bill of rights. Among the scholars, Mr. Frank Boas, a generous donor and supporter of the law school sponsors a visiting Harvard professor to participate in the January Term. This year, Professor Frank Michelman of Harvard Law School was selected as the 2009 Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor.

“We are particularly grateful to host these great scholars and professors who come to the Law School and help us continue our longstanding tradition of excellence throughout our curriculum. This program is in its fifth year now and continues to offer a tremendous opportunity for students and for everyone at the Law School and throughout the community to get to know and to learn directly from world renowned scholars who are still wonderfully accessible”, said Dean Avi Soifer.

Frank I. Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School and the Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor; Bill of Rights & Private Comparative Perspective

Frank I. Michelman is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1963. He is the author of Brennan and Democracy (1999), and has published widely in the fields of constitutional law and theory, property law and theory, local government law, and jurisprudence. Professor Michelman is a past President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005, he was awarded the American Philosophical Society’s Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Association of Constitutional Law and of the National Advisory Board of the American Constitution Society. Over the past several years, he has maintained an active interest in matters of constitutionalism in South Africa.

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