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Williamson B.C. Chang |
Williamson B.C. Chang
AB, Princeton, 1972; JD, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.
Professor Williamson Chang was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai`i. He graduated from Princeton University with degrees in Asian Studies and from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Thereafter, he attended the University of California, Berkeley [Boalt Hall] where he was an editor of both the California Law Review and the Ecology Law Quarterly. He clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Dick Yin Wong in Honolulu and began teaching at the University of Hawai`i the following year. He has taught a wide variety of courses, including corporations, securities regulation, constitutional law, federal courts, conflicts of law, and jurisprudence. Recently, he has been teaching Native Hawaiian Rights and Indigenous Peoples' Law. He has been a visiting professor at various law schools including the University of Wisconsin, the University of San Francisco, Hiroshima University, and the University of Western Australia. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Australia and served as a staff member to the United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs.
Prof. Chang has done extensive work in the development of water rights and the state water code. He served as a Deputy Attorney General and represented Chief Justice William S. Richardson in a number of critical property rights cases, such as McBryde Sugar Co. v. Robinson [water], Sotomura v. County of Hawai`i [beaches] and Zimring v. State of Hawai`i [volcanic accretion]. Prof. Chang was extremely active in the development of the state water code and drafted the state water code as a reporter for the Advisory Commission on Water Resources. He has served as litigation director for Native Hawaiian Advisory Council and represented various Native Hawaiian individuals and community groups in court and before Congress. He is currently working on an account of the actual history of the United States acquisition of Hawai`i titled: "A Rope of Sand: The United States Annexation of Hawai`i."
Teaching Areas:
Conflicts of Law, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Jurisprudence, Native Hawaiian Rights, Water Resources
