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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 5, No. 22 | Week of February 20, 2001 |
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| Announcements |
| NATIVE AMERICAN MOOT COURT TEAM WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! MICHELLE KIM 3L and AIMEE DAVIS 3L won first place overall in the Native American Moot Court Competition in Portland this past weekend against 49 other teams. This is the third year in a row a team from our school has taken first place and the second year for MICHELLE and AIMEE. EMI MORITA 2L and MARC NAKAMURA 2L also competed and received favorable comments from the judges. Alternate MARK HAMILTON 2L provided team support, and PROF. BILL CHANG was the advisor. Congratulations to the team for an incredible third national title. |
| The Marcos Discussion and JON VAN DYKE Book Reception held last week was a big success. JON VAN DYKE, Jerry Burris, Honolulu Advertiser editorial page editor and moderator Prof. Belinda Aguino spoke to a packed Classroom 2. Special guests included US Dist. Judge Manual Real from the Central Dist. Calif., the judge in the Marcos case, and former Magistrate Sol Schreiber from New York, the special master in the case. Law school friends included CJ RICHARDSON, Frank Boas, and LINDA PAUL'90 who gave the introduction, as well as other alumni, students and faculty members from other UH departments. Special mahalo to JENA TANAKA, who organized the event. Students MARIA ESTANISLAO 3L, BILL HEFLIN 3L, PAUL LIN-EASTON 3L, and LEILA ROTHWELL SULLIVAN 3L helped that evening. |
| Our law school leads UH Manoa in combined gender and ethnic diversity among faculty. We are #2 in both categories (right behind the School of Education in gender diversity and right behind the College of Engineering in ethnic diversity). According to UH statistics, the overall percentage of minority faculty at Manoa is 31.3% and we are at 40%. The range was 17% - 50.3%. For gender, the numbers are 31% and 45% respectively and the range was 8.9% - 53.5%. |
| Faculty |
| DENISE ANTOLINI and ERIC YAMAMOTO are the inaugural awardees of the Lucy E. Pence Endowment Awards for professional development of the law faculty. |
| RONALD BROWN will speak on "Rule of Law in China" as a part of The JAIMS China Seminar Series on April 26. The series runs between April 12 and May 4, 2001 at the Japanese Cultural Center. |
| JON VAN DYKE returned from a meeting at Fiske University in Tennessee where he addressed issues related to Reparations for African Americans Based on the Slavery Experience, in preparation for the World Conference on Racism to be held in Durbin, South Africa in August-September 2001. PROF. VAN DYKE was on a panel that included Congressman John Conyers of Michigan and Dr. Haunani Kay Trask from UH. He spoke on the international human right to an effective remedy, discussed related precedents (such as the case on behalf of slave laborers during World War II in Europe, which he worked on as co-counsel), and addressed some of the procedural and substantive challenges. PROF. VAN DYKE was invited because someone had read his article entitled "The Fundamental Human Right to Prosecution and Compensation" which is being published in the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy as well as in International Law, Human Rights, and the Well Being of Refugees and Displaced Persons (Marsalla, Liu, Tehranian and Ditzler eds. 2001). |
| JON VAN DYKE also recently published an article entitled "Louis B. Sohn and the Settlement of Ocean Disputes," 33 George Washington Int'l L. Rev. 31 (2000). |
| RANDY ROTH recently spoke at an ALI-ABA conference on "Recent Developments in Estate Planning," and "Current Ethical Issues." On Monday, PROF. ROTH gave an all-day seminar to about 200 members of the Minnesota Bar Association entitled "Advanced Estate Planning Seminar." |
| Students |
| Good luck to two of our teams leaving this week for competitions in California. |
| The HISPANIC MOOT COURT TEAM, DAISY HARTSFIELD 2L, DESIREE HIKIDA 2L, LIZ ROBINSON 3L and alternate COLETTE HONDA 3L will be attending the national competition in San Francisco between Mar. 8 and 10. PROF. DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES is the team's coach. |
| The CLIENT COUNSELING TEAM, STEPH MCGEE 3L, BRANDON MITSUDA 3L, CRYSTAL ASANO 2L and NORM CHENG 2L, having successfully defended its regional title here in February, will be flying to the national tournament in Sacramento, March 10-11, 2001, where they hope to improve on their #5 national ranking from last year. PROF. CALVIN PANG and DEAN LAURIE TOCHIKI coached this team to its regional victory. |
| 1L STUDENTS are encouraged to participate in a short online survey of student learning/study practices in law school. Our data will be included with data from other schools and will provide helpful information to both law schools and law students. The monetary award has been designated to the 1L Graduation Fund. Contact Dean Lee to have additional copies sent via email. |
| Alumni |
| Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel recently sent a press release and photos of the firm's newest associates. Among the seven new associates include three of our alumni, SCOTT MORITA'00, LORI KAISER'00 and REGAN IWAO'00. |
| TRUDY K. SENDA'83 was appointed a district court judge for the fifth judicial circuit (Kaua'i). |
| BRIAN SHAUGHNESSY '99 was on the Hawaii Public Radio program Town Square last week with attorney Carl Varaday discussing Garrett v. Alabama. |