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Denise E. Antolini |
Denise E. Antolini
AB, magna cum laude, Princeton University, 1982; Master of Public Policy (MPP), University of California, Berkeley, 1985; JD, University of California, Berkeley, 1986.
Associate Professor Denise E. Antolini joined the Law School faculty in 1996 and now serves as Director of the nationally recognized Environmental Law Program. She continues to Chair the Law School Building Committee and
was recently appointed by Governor Lingle to serve on the newly formed Turtle
Bay Advisory Working Group. Her courses include torts, environmental law, environmental litigation, natural resources law, and legal writing. She advises the Environmental Law Society and the Environmental Law Moot Court Team, which won the national championship in 1999 and top brief awards in 2002 and 2003.
After a two-year federal district court clerkship in Washington, D.C., she spent eight years practicing public interest law with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now EarthJustice) in Seattle and Honolulu, serving as Managing Attorney of the Honolulu office from 1994 until 1996. She was editor-in-chief of Ecology Law Quarterly at the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law.
Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Antolini litigated several major citizen suit environmental cases involving coastal pollution, water rights, endangered species, environmental impact statements, and Native Hawaiian rights. She served as a lead counsel on the legal team for the Windward parties in the early stages of the Waiahole Water case (1993-1995), assisting in the negotiation of the mediation agreement in 1994 that led to interim stream restoration and participating in the extensive motions (pre-contested case) before the Commission on Water Resource Management in 1995.
After joining the faculty, she served as a member of the State Legislature's Tort Law Study Group (1997-1999) and the PASH Study Group (on Native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights, in 1998). In 2001, she served as Co-Chair of the "Managing Hawai`i's Public Trust Doctrine" Symposium at the University of Hawai`i focusing on the State Supreme Court's August 2000 Waiahole Water decision. The proceedings of that Symposium and Professor Antolini's Foreword are published in the University of Hawai`i Law Review (Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2001). In 2002-2003, she was the principal investigator of a year-long governance study on Hawai`i's Marine Protected Areas for the State of Hawai`i, Department of Land and Natural Resources. She is currently working under contract to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey), to modernize the Coast Pilot 7 for mariners in Hawai`i with new information on environmental, navigational safety, and homeland security statutes and regulations.
She is the author of Modernizing Public Nuisance: Solving the Paradox of the Special Injury Rule (2001) and Punitive Damages in Reality and Rhetoric: An Integrated Empirical Analysis of Punitive Damages Judgments in Hawaii; 1985-2001 (2004). Her current research projects include: a comparative analysis of environmental citizen group access to the courts in Italy; an examination of recent developments regarding national marine protected areas in Italy and Europe, focusing on Cinque Terre National Park; updating a handbook on Hawai`i land use and environmental law (with Professor David Callies, UH Law School); and a book on cutting-edge common law litigation in the environmental arena (with Professor Cliff Rechtschaffen, Golden Gate University Law School). Professor Antolini is past chair of the Hawai`i State Bar Association's Natural Resources Section and was selected by Hawai`i Women Lawyers as the 2002 recipient of the Distinguished Community Service Award. For the 2003-04 academic year, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research as the Distinguished Chair in Environmental Studies in Turin, Italy (Politecnico di Torino, Faculty of Architecture, Urban, Territorial and Environmental Planning), allowing her family the wonderful opportunity to live in Italy for a year.
After returning to Hawai`i in July 2004, Professor Antolini was appointed by Governor Lingle in July 2005 to serve as a member of the State Environmental Council, for which she currently serves as Chair. In 2004, she was appointed as the Vice Chair of Public Service of the Marine Resources Committee, part of the American Bar Association's Section on Environment Energy and Resources; in 2005, she joined the national Executive Committee of the Environmental Section of the American Association of Law Schools; in October 2005, she was appointed by the President of the ABA to the Standing Committee on Environmental Law. She is recently the recipient of the 2006 University of Hawai`i Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Medal. Professor Antolini lives on O'ahu's rural North Shore (Pupukea) with her husband and two young sons (now 6 and 10 years old), and enjoys hiking, gardening, and family beach excursions. She is a founding and current board member of the North Shore Community Land Trust.
Courses & Projects Web Site: www2.hawaii.edu/~antolini
Environmental Law Program Web Site: www.hawaii.edu/elp
OHELO Web Site: www3.hawaii.edu/ohelo
