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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 5, No. 23 | Week of February 20, 2001 |
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| General |
| The HISPANIC MOOT COURT TEAM, DAISY HARTSFIELD 3L, LIZ ROBINSON 3L, DESIREE HIKIDA 2L and alternate COLETTE HONDA 3L just returned from San Francisco. Though they did not advance to the final rounds, the team was pleased with its performance. This was the second time a team from our school participated in this competition. |
| ALL MOOT COURT and CLIENT COUNSELING TEAMS will be recognized by Gov. Ben Cayetano at a proclamation ceremony at the Governor's Office on April 23 at 10:15 a.m. |
| ASIAN-PACIFIC LAW & POLICY JOURNAL's symposium on International Litigation in Hawai'i Courts was held here on Saturday with 45 attendees, include CJ Richardson, students, and many downtown practitioners. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the June issue of the APLPJ at www.hawaii.edu/aplpj. Special thanks to the Marian C. and Walter G. Chuck Endowment for funding and to the other outside sponsors, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and the HSBA International Law Section. |
| Faculty |
| HAZEL BEH's article "We want to teach" lays out the case for a strike against the University of Hawai'i. It is published in the most recent issue of Honolulu Weekly. PROF. BEH was also just appointed to the Ad Hoc Committee on the One Tier Judiciary of the Hawaii Chapter of the American Judicature Society. The committee was created by the Board of the Chapter to review the issue of whether the district courts should be merged into the circuit courts. |
| JON VAN DYKE just returned from three days in Santiago, Chile, to discuss with Chilean government officials ideas about how to deal with the shipments of ultrahazdous nuclear cargoes passing through the territorial seas and exclusive economic zones of Chile. He addressed a 2 1/2 hour meeting of 25 officials, mostly from the Foreign Ministry, and was invited back the next day for a smaller meeting with key governmental attorneys. On March 22, PROF. VAN DYKE will present a paper on the same subject at the Inter-Regional Conference of the Southeast Asian Program in Ocean Law Policy and Management (SEAPOL) in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| PROF. VAN DYKE participated in the APLPJ Symposisum on March 10 and also spoke on the Barrett/Carroll attacks on Native Hawaiian rights to representatives of all the Hawaiian Civil Clubs at a meeting held at the Windward Community College on March 11. |
| 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). |
| JIM PIETSCH's wife, Col Coral Wong Pietsch, is the chief judge in the Army Reserve and has just been nominated to the rank of brigadier general. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will be the first Asian American woman general. ." |
| Students |
| NICHOLE SHIMAMOTO 3L, DARCY KISHIDA 3L, HOKULEI LINDSEY 1L, ROBERT HARRIS 2L , and KIM MOFFIE have just returned from the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference Oregon with Prof. DENISE ANTOLINI where they gave multi-media presentations: NICHOLE - "Navy sonar testing in Hawaii and its impacts on whales"; DARCY - "The endangered species act's "safe harbors" provision and its application in Hawaii to the Nene"; HOKULEI - "The cross-over between environmental and native Hawaiian rights". ROBERT and KIM shared the introduction and technical responsibilities. |
| SPACE MOOT COURT TEAM, ANNE LOPEZ 3L, SETH HARRIS 3L and TERI BARNETT 3L will be traveling to the competition this Saturday, March 17, in Washington D.C. |
| Several of our students will be presenting papers at the WESTERN LAW TEACHERS OF COLOR CONFERENCE in LAGUNA BEACH, CA, MARCH 23 - 25: SHELLIE PARK 2L - "Assessment of Post-Apartheid Reparations for South Africans"; ANNA VIDAD 2L - "Reparations for Korean Comfort Women"; SONJA VALANT 2L - "Analysis of Native Hawaiian-US Reconciliation"; HOKULEI LINDSEY 1L - "Traditional Customary Rights". |
| Alumni |
| A big "Mahalo" goes out to the 78 Class Agents who volunteered for this year's Alumni Fund Raising Campaign. On February 19 & 20, over 40 class agents participated in the two-day Phone-a-thon. They raised $13,210 over the two nights, and will reach their goal of $40,000 by continuing to call from their homes and offices through April 30. |
| 1976: Calleen Ching, Thomas Crowley, Lani Nakazawa, Abelina M. Shaw; 1977: Lynn Higashi, Stuart Kaneko, Stephanie Rezents, Elbridge Smith; 1978: Rosemary Fazio, Jim Williston; 1979: Richard Hoke; 1980: Robyn Au, Haunani Burns, Laurie Keeno, Emma Matsunaga, Clyde Umebayashi; 1981: Lahoma Fernandes-Nakata, Larry Foster, Lani Rae Garcia, Rosemary McShane; 1982: Fred Hu, John Ing, Harlan Kimura, Greg Lui-Kwan, Gary Miyamoto, Glenn Nagata, Sheryl Nagata, Isaac Smith; 1983: Davis Higa, Paul Murakami, Margaret Ushijima; 1984: David Minkin; 1985: Willie Domingo, David Farmer, Ronette Kawakami, Craig Shikuma, Chad Taniguchi; 1986: Colette Gomoto, Dana Ishibashi, Iris Okawa; 1987: Blake Bushnell, Carol Eblen, Karen Essene, Donna Gray, Linda Martell, Brad Petrus, Sheila Sakashita, Trudie Tongg Kiessling; 1988: Linda Chow, Carol Lee Chun; 1991: Dean Soma; 1992: Deborah Jackson, Jackie Amai; 1993: David Forman, Teri Kondo, Mitzi Lee; 1994: Joanne Grimes, Carolyn Oshiro, Gina Watumull, Nathan Yoshimoto; 1995: Tim Baltzer, Shanlyn Souza; 1996: Garrick Goo, Reid Yamashiro; 1997: Peter Horovitz, Cathy Kong, Ken Nakasone, Diane Yuen Praywell, Heather Williams; 1998: Juliann Tigert; 1999: Brandon Gonzalez, Clare Hanusz, Sylvia Higashi, Patrick Kelly, Ammie Roseman-Orr; 2000: John Egan, Kaleen Hasegawa, Dean Uehara * Names in bold indicate alums that attended the Feb. 19 & 20 Phone-a-thon |