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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 5, No. 21 | Week of February 20, 2001 |
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| Announcements |
| "Is the Marcos Decision a Dangerous Precedent?" will be the subject of a lively discussion between JON VAN DYKE and Jerry Burris of the Honolulu Advertiser this Wednesday evening, Feb. 28 here at the law school. The program is scheduled for taping by Oceanic Cable for future rebroadcast. A book reception in honor of PROF. VAN DYKE'S newest book "International Law and Litigation in the U.S" will follow the program. |
| March is ADR Month in Hawai'i. JOHN BARKAI's March 9 ADR class is being cosponsored by the UH Program on Conflict Resolution. The Alumni Association is also sponsoring a program featuring Magistrate Judge BARRY KURREN'77 on March 24 here at the law school. |
| Three part-timers have joined Technical Services in the library. Welcome to COLLEEN LASHAWAY, a librarian, formerly with the public library system, CATHERINE THOMAS, also a librarian, and Head of Technical Services at Meader Library, HPU, and DAWN LLECES, a December 2000 graduate in Environmental Studies, who previously was a student assistant in Technical Services. |
| Administration |
| LARRY FOSTER'81 just returned from the ABA Midyear Meeting and Deans' Workshop in San Diego. DEAN FOSTER has been invited to attend a meeting with Silicon Valley capitalists along with other UH and community leaders in Palo Alto, Ca. this week. CAROL MON LEE recently spoke to high school students about careers in law at Hawaii Academy of the Pacific's Career Day. |
| LAURIE TOCHIKI will be speaking to a group of students at UH West Oahu campus about law this week. |
| The school recently hosted 14 students from the 7th grade at Kamehameha. MIKE WONG 3L (a Kamehameha alum) also talked with them. 35 students from Highlands Intermediate 8th grade also visited the law school last week. |
| Faculty |
| DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES was interviewed by CNN regarding the recent incident involving the US submarine, Greenville, and the Japanese training vessel, Ehime Maru. The interview will be part of a piece scheduled for broadcast on CNN the evening before and throughout the first day of the formal court of inquiry. |
| PROF. EMERITUS DICK MILLER delivered three speeches at the Aoyama Gakuin University College of Law in Tokyo on the development, curriculum, and management of The William S. Richardson School of Law during its formative years. Law faculty members from all law schools in the Tokyo area were invited to attend. The speeches, delivered between Jan. 29 and Feb. 3, were designed to assist the Japanese law faculties in their plans to develop a new system of post graduate professional legal education. |
| Students |
| The NATIVE AMERICAN MOOT COURT TEAM, AIMEE DAVIS 3L, MICHELLE KIM 3L, EMI MORITA 2L, MARC NAKAMURA 2L and alternate MARK HAMILTON 2L will be travelling to Lewis and Clark University in Portland for the national competition this week. Our team has won the national competition for the past two years. Best wishes to this year's team. |
| Congratulations to this year's Environmental Law Moot Court Team: LISETTE BLUMHARDT 3L, KAREN ARIKAWA 3L, and CHRIS KEMPNER 2L -- which made it to the quarter-final round of the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York. LISETTE also picked up a best oralist award in the third round, adding to her strong showing at least year's competition (quarterfinals). Mahalo to coaches PROF. DENISE ANTOLINI and PROF. CASEY JARMAN and assistant coach ELIJAH YIP '99. |
| DAVID BREEMER 3L has co-authored an article "Will Palazzolo vs. State Clarify the Murky Doctrine of Investment-Backed Expectations in Regulatory Takings Law?" 9 NYU Env.L.J, forthcoming April 2001. The article is cited in the reply brief in Palazzolo for which oral arguments were heard today, Feb. 26, 2001 before the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| LAW REVIEW has announced its 2001-02 board positions. Congratulations to the new board members! Co-Editors-in-Chief: BECKY CHESTNUT 2L and SHEREE NITTA 2L Production Editors: LAURA ALBRIGHT 2L, NORMAN CHENG 2L and JAMIE TANABE 2L Executive Editor: MICHELLE OISHI 2L Managing Editor: VICKI SAKAMAKI 2L Outside Article Editors: MELODY KUBO 2L and ROBERT HARRIS 2L Comments Editors: CHRIS KEMPNER 2L, LE'A KANEHE 2L, and ROBYN SARRAT 2L Casenote Editors: IAN HLAWATI 2L and CAL CHIPCHASE 2L Recent Development Editors: EMI MORITA 2L and EMILY LAROCQUE 2L |
| Alumni |
| LINDA ROSE '86 moderated a panel discussion on illegal immigration on February 21 at Vanderbilt University Law School, where she is an adjunct law professor teaching immigration law. Linda is the principal shareholder in The Rose Immigration Law Firm of Nashville, TN. |