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Hazel Glenn Beh |
Hazel Glenn Beh
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs/Professor of Law
BA, University of Arizona, 1973; MSW, University of Hawai`i, 1975; PhD, University of Hawai`i, 1986; JD, University of Hawai`i, 1991.
Professor Beh joined the law school in 1995 as Acting Associate Dean and joined the faculty in 1996. She is again serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She teaches Contracts, Advanced Torts and Insurance Law, and legal writing. She is a former director of the legal writing program. She teaches Higher Education Law in the College of Education. Professor Beh is also an advisor to Law Review.
After law school, she served as Hawai`i Supreme Court Chief Justice Herman Lum's administrative law clerk. From 1993 to 1994, she was the Research & Appellate Coordinator for the City and County of Honolulu Corporation Counsel.
In addition to her law degree, Professor Beh also holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and a Masters of Social Work. She worked as a social worker with the elderly in the Hawai`i community for twelve years.
Her scholarship interests are diverse; she has written articles concerning insurance, bioethics, torts, contracts, and higher education law.
In 1998-99, she was selected by students and faculty as Outstanding Professor of the Year.
Professor Beh is also a 2000 recipient of the Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award, the University of Hawai`i's highest honor for teachers.
Professor Beh is past Chair of the AALS Education Law Section; she has served as Chair of the AALS Contracts Section and is currently Chair of the AALS Insurance Law Section. She was a visiting professor at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia in 2005, the University of California, Hastings College of Law in Spring 2002 and at Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan in Summer 2001.
Teaching Areas:
Advanced Torts, Contracts, Higher Education Law, Insurance Law, Legal Research and Writing
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Hazel Glenn Beh, Book Review: Legal Aspects of Architecture, Engineering and the Construction Process, 130 Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice 318 (2004).
Hazel Glenn Beh, Reassessing the Sophisticated Insured Exception, 39 Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal 85 (2004).
Hazel Glenn Beh, (with James Pietsch), Legal Implications Surrounding Adolescent Health Care Decision-Making in Matters of Sex, Reproduction, and Gender, in 13 Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Sex and Gender 675 (2004) (book chapter).
Hazel Glenn Beh, (with Milton Diamond), Ethical Concerns Related to Treating Gender Nonconformity in Childhood and Adolescence: Lessons From the Family Court of Australia, 15 Health Matrix 239 (2005).
Hazel Glenn Beh, (with Milton Diamond), Ethics & Gender: The Right to Be Wrong, Sharon Systma, ed. (2006).
Hazel Glenn Beh, (with Milton Diamond),The Failure of Abstinence Only: Minors Have a Right to Honest Talk About Sex, 15 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 12 (2006).
Hazel Glenn Beh, (with Milton Diamond), David Reimer's Legacy: Limiting Parental Discretion, 15 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 5 (2006).
Hazel Glenn Beh, Recognizing the Sexual Rights of Minors in the Abstinence-Only Sex Education Debate, 26 Children's Legal Rights Journal 1 (2006).
Hazel Glenn Beh (with Milton Diamond), Changes in the Management of Children with Intersex Conditions, 4 Nature Clinical Practice 4-5 (January 2008).
