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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 5, No. 20 | Week of February 20, 2001 |
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| Announcements |
| Welcome to our newest staff members! LITA GONZALES-CHAMBLISS will be working temporarily as the secretary to Assistant Dean Laurie Tochiki. LITA recently retired after working more than 30 years at UH 's East West Center, Housing Office and University Affairs. |
| RAINE MATSUDA has also agreed to return temporarily as the Student Services and Career Services Specialist. RAINE worked in Student Services for almost 10 years until her baby was born. |
| DANIKA KIM is the newest student assistant in Student Services. |
| The ASIAN-PACIFIC LAW & POLICY JOURNAL announced the publication of the first issue of its second volume. The Journal is the first fully-functional, web-based, American legal journal dedicated to Asia, the Pacific and Australia. http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj |
| APLPJ is sponsoring a program entitled "International Litigation in Hawai'i Courts: What Every Practitioner Needs to Know" on Mar. 10. The PACIFIC ASIAN LEGAL STUDIES ORGANIZATION and others are co-sponsors. Speakers include PROF. JON VAN DYKE. |
| The Judge Jon J. Chinen Fund has recently been established by the HSBA Bankruptcy Law Section in honor of his recent retirement. It will provide a monetary award to UH law students who extern with the Bankruptcy Court each semester. |
| Faculty |
| DAVID CALLIES is giving a faculty presentation this week at Vanderbilt where he is teaching this semester. He will discuss customary law and the right to exclude. CHRIS IIJIMA is a member of the Civil Rights Commission's Special Advisory Council on Diversity. |
| MARK LEVIN's latest essay on Japanese legal education reform ("The American Kaizen of Law Teaching") was published in the February '01 edition of the Journal of Judicial Reform in Japan ("Shiho Kaikaku"). The article was translated from English to Japanese by Former VISITING PROF. TAKASHI MARUTA. The English language versions of Prof. Levin's essay will be published in a Special Edition of our Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal expected to be available this coming April . |
| ERIC YAMAMOTO recently gave a presentation at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and in San Francisco for the Internment Day of Remembrance. |
| Students |
| Best wishes to our ENVIRONMENTAL MOOT COURT TEAM. LISETTE BLUMHARDT 3L,CHRIS KEMPNER 2L and KAREN ARIKAWA 3L will be accompanied by Asst. Coach ELIJAH YIP'00 at the National Environmental Law Competition at Pace Univ. Law School in New York this week. |
| CONGRATULATIONS to our Client Counseling Team, STEPH MCGEE 3L, BRANDON MITSUDA 3L, CRYSTAL ASANO 3L AND NORM CHENG 2L, who successfully defended its regional championship on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2001. Hawaii has won four straight regional titles and five of the last six. It now advances to the national tournament in San Francisco, March 10-11, 2001 where it hopes to improve on its #5 national ranking from last year. Of the field of nine teams, STEPH and BRANDON beat a team from Chapman in the final round. In their first year of competition, CRYSTAL and NORM also did very well enroute to netting top scores from a number of their judges. Kudos to LAURIE TOCHIKI, JIM PIETSCH and head coach CALVIN PANG who organized a very successful event at UH as the host school. |
| CONGRATULATIONS to our JESSUP INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT TEAM , SETH HARRIS 3L, LEILANI TAN 2L, MARIA ESTANISLAO 3L, NICHOLE SHIMAMOTO 3L, and CHASTITY IMAMURA 2L, on their fine performance at the regional competition in San Diego. The team finished with 3 wins and one loss in the preliminary round and second place in the competition for Best Memorials (briefs). Professor Jon Van Dyke and David McCauley'93 coached. |
| Alumni |
| This year's Annual Alumni Fund Raising Campaign started yesterday, President's Day, with a two-day phone-a-thon. 76 class agents led by Dean Larry Foster'81 will try to reach all WSRSL graduates over the two days of calling from the UH Foundation Calling Center and follow-up calls through April 30. Day 1 yielded 97 pledges totaling $10,660! Stop by the Calling Center (portables across from WSRSL) Tuesday, Feb. 20, between 6:00 and 9:00, to cheer them on! |
| Correction: ANDY ENGLEHART'79 passed away in the Phillipines and not in Japan as last reported. |