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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 5, No. 15 | Week of January 16, 2001 |
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| Announcements |
| This is the first issue of Ke Kula Kanawai for the spring 2001 semester. Welcome to our returning and new students, full-time and adjunct faculty and staff. A special aloha to our new Visiting Prof. DAN TARLOCK, visiting scholar Prof. CINDY SCHIPANI, full-time staffer JENNIFER AKAMA and new adjuncts MARK BENNETT, WILLIAM BENTO '86, BLAKE BUSHNELL '87, CARL CHRISTENSEN, APRIL LURIA, ALAN MURAKAMI, CAROLYN OGAMI, ERIC PIESNER, ALEXANDER SILVERT and SHANLYN SOUZA '95. |
| In case you missed news items that occurred since the last issue of Ke Kula, some are reported here. |
| Our LAW LIBRARY, under the direction of law librarian PROF. LEI SEEGER, was recently ranked the overall 16th law library in the nation by National Jurist magazine! Congratulations! |
| The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools met in early January in San Francisco. Several of our faculty participated in programs. HAZEL BEH was on a panel entitled "Insurance Coverage of Intellectual Property Disputes." CHRIS IIJIMA conducted a workshop on "Reparations." CALVIN PANG was a presenter on the topic "A Humanizing Dimension for Legal Education: Promoting Health and Satisfaction in Law Students." JOHN BARKAI moderated a panel discussion on ADR Pedagogy. The Law School also hosted an "Aloha Reception" at the event. Alumns ALLISON CHANG '97, CJ DUNCAN '00, MIKE HOSOGAWA '96, PROF. JOHN GOTANDA '87, SUSAN SERRANO '98, and SUSAN STICK '96 joined several faculty, CJ Richardson, former visiting professors and other friends of the law school. |
| DEAN FOSTER, PROF. MARK LEVIN, and Emeritus PROF. DICK MILLER met last week with a delegation from the Japanese Ministry of Education which came to learn more about our school as a model of a small US law school. Japan is planning to radically change its legal education system soon by adding a three-year, post-graduate legal training program similar in many ways to American legal education. Hawaii was chosen as one of their stops because of our close involvement with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and several Japanese law faculties on this reform effort and also because the new Japanese law schools will probably be about our size. The spring 2001 issue of our ASIAN-PACIFIC LAW & POLICY JOURNAL will be devoted to this topic with articles by leading Japanese and American legal scholars. |
| NEW PAINT. The first law school repaint job since 1983 is almost completed. We appreciate your kokua in maintaining our law school home! Please avoid new scruff marks by not resting your foot on the walls. |
| Faculty |
| ERIC YAMAMOTO's book "Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America" received the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Books Award as one of the top 10 books on human rights, social justice and civil rights in North America. Congratulations! HAZEL BEH was the subject of a lengthy interview in the December issue of the Hawai'i Bar Journal written by LANE HORNFECK '98. |
| MARK LEVIN was interviewed by the ABC radio network (Australian Broadcast Company -- Australia's NPR) Tokyo correspondent regarding tobacco regulation in Japan and is scheduled for broadcast in Australia in late January. Elsewhere, PROF.LEVIN's Ka Leo editorial last month regarding tobacco sales on the UH campus was excerpted / recommended by the two principal on-line news providers to the international tobacco control community -- "The Week in Tobacco" by Tobacco News Online, and Tobacco News Daily. |
| DAVID CALLIES was elected treasurer of the State and Local Government Law section of AALS annual meeting. |
| KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI and husband Randall announced the arrival of Benjamin Kapeel Gebbia Pinetti on 12/26 at 2:27 pm at Kapiolani Hospital. He was 22.5 inches long and weighed in at just 3 ounces shy of 13 pounds! Welcome! |
| RON BROWN just returned from Taiwan as part of an American Scholars and Experts delegation hosted by the Institute of International Relations. He is working to reestablish an exchange relationship with the University of Hawaii and National Taiwan University. |
| JON VAN DYKE was a speaker at the 2000 International Conference on the Policy of Urban Indigenous Peoples held in Taipei in December. His topic was " The Native Hawaiian People Under U.S. and International Law." |
| Administration |
| An informational session for prospective law student applicants was held in late December. DEAN FOSTER, DEAN TOCHIKI, PAT ABRACIA, and PROFS. ROTH, BEH, LEVIN, PANG and IIJIMA spoke to a moot court room filled with prospective students and their families. Special mahalo to our law students who returned from winter break to also participate! |
| Students |
| If you missed the article on our 1L class in the December 31, 2000, Sunday Honolulu Advertiser, click on the link below and it should take you directly to the web page. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/Dec/31/1231localnews12.html |
| Alumni |
| LOPAKA INCIONG '00 was featured in the special State of the Hawaiian Special Report to the Honolulu Advertiser. For more see here. |
| Other |
| The WSRSL Annual Holiday Party for faculty and staff was coordinated by the faculty this year. Photos of the fun event are displayed in the faculty hallway. Who was that playing Santa??? |