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Jon M. Van Dyke |
Jon M. Van Dyke
BA, cum laude, Yale University, 1964; JD, cum laude, Harvard University, 1967.
Professor Van Dyke has been on the faculty since 1976, teaching Constitutional Law and International Law. He previously taught at the Hastings College of Law, University of California, and at the Catholic University Law School, Washington, D.C.
He was law clerk for Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California. Professor Van Dyke served as the University's representative on the Executive Board of the Law of the Sea Institute from 1982 to 1988 and has been an Adjunct Research Associate at the East-West Center. From 1988 to 1990, he served as Director of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace.
He has written five books, North Vietnam's Strategy for Survival (1972), Jury Selection Procedures: Our Uncertain Commitment to Representative Panels (1977), Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea (co-author 1997), International Law and Litigation in the U.S. (co-author 2000), and Checklists for Searches and Seizures in Public Schools (co-author 2002) and edited Consensus and Confrontation: The United States and the Law of the Sea Convention (1985), International Navigation: Rocks and Shoals Ahead? (1988) and Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century (1993), which was awarded the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for 1994 by the International Studies Association. He has also written numerous articles.
Since coming to Hawai`i, Professor Van Dyke has worked on problems related to the state's constitution, growth management, reapportionment, water rights, the status of Native Hawaiians, nuclear waste, ocean law, international environmental law, and human rights.
In 1987, he was recipient of a University of Hawai`i Presidential Citation for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Van Dyke has been named Outstanding Law Professor four times, most recently for the 2001-02 academic year.
Teaching Areas:
Constitutional Law, International Law, International Human Rights, International Ocean Law
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Jon M. Van Dyke, Promoting Accountability for Human Rights Abuses, 8 Chapman Law Review 153-77 (2005).
Jon M. Van Dyke, (with Duncan E.J. Currie) Recent Developments in the International Law Governing Shipments of Nuclear Materials and Wastes and Their Implications for SIDS, 14:2 RECIEL 117-24 (2005).
Jon M. Van Dyke, An Analysis of the Aegean Disputes Under International Law, 26 Ocean Development and International Law 63-117, (2005).
