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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 5, No. 24 | Week of April 2, 2001 |
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| Announcements |
| If unable to reach agreement, UHPA will begin its strike this Thursday, April 5. In the event of a strike, law school administrative offices will maintain normal hours: 7:45 - 4:30, M-F. The law library will be open 8:00 - 5:00 M-F but with limited services. Full-time and visiting faculty are members of UHPA but adjuncts are not. In the event of a strike, students are advised to go to class and wait for 10 minutes. If the professor does not show up, then you can assume the professor is on strike. The law school hotline is 956-3300. The university strike info line is 956-4560 and the website is www.hawaii.edu/strike |
| Aloha to our Bibliographic Services Librarian, SLOAN SAKAMOTO, who has decided to return to the Clark County Law Library in Las Vegas as a law librarian. Mahalo, Sloan, for your year with us. |
| JENA TANAKA, our PR and Development Specialist, has accepted a management position at Cheap Tickets. During her short time with us, JENA helped in numerous projects. Best wishes, Jena! |
| Welcome back to TINA KOHARA who is the new secretary to the Assistant Dean, LAURIE TOCHIKI. Tina worked for the law school as an administrative clerk for BOB DAGUIO before leaving in 1997 to join the Water Resources Research Center. Tina replaces LITA GONZALES-CHAMBLISS who returns to retirement! |
| Faculty |
| DEAN LARRY FOSTER was a guest on the KITV morning show on Friday, March 29. He spoke with Paul Udell about the recent Michigan affirmative action decision and our law school admissions process. DEAN FOSTER, whose birthday is Nov. 15, is featured as "Mr. November" in the UH Federal Credit Union 2000 Annual Report and 2001-02 Planner's monthly calendar! |
| MARK LEVIN is a panelist at an upcoming conference, "Seeing Through the Smoke", the 2001 Hawaii Tobacco Control Conference, on April 17, 2001 at the Ala Moana Hotel. The conference is organized by the Hawaii State Department of Health and the law school is one of the event co-sponsors. PROF. LEVIN will be talking about global issues in tobacco control. |
| LEI SEEGER just returned from the mainland where she served on a six-member ABA accreditation site evaluation team on March 21-24, 2001. |
| JON VAN DYKE just returned from Bangkok where he presented a paper on "The Legal Regime Governing Sea Transport of Ultrahazardous Radioactive Materials" to the "Inter-Regional Conference on Ocean Governance and Sustainable Development in the East and Southeast Asian Seas: Challenges in the New Millenium" organized in Bangkok by the Southeast Asian Programme on Ocean Law, Policy and Management (SEAPOL), with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). |
| JIM PIETSCH just returned from San Diego where he attended the ABA Pro Bono Conference. |
| Students |
| The SPACE MOOT COURT team returned from the national competition in Washington D.C. where the team finished in 4th place. Congratulations to TERI BARNETT 3L, SETH HARRIS 3L and ANNE LOPEZ 3L. |
| SAT KHALSA 3L and student member of the Board of Regents was interviewed in a front page story in Ka Leo regarding the recent meeting on tuition increases. SAT will complete his second and last year as a member of the BOR this spring. |
| Congratulations to the ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SOCIETY newly announced officers for 2001-02: Co-Directors: KIM MOFFIE 2L, HOKULEI LINDSEY 1L Co-Vice Directors: NATHAN ROEHRIG 1L, DELLA AU 1L Treasurer: HEIDI GUTH 2L Administrative Assistant: KRISTIN LUNDGREN 1L Programming: JILL RAZNOV 1L |
| HEIDI GUTH 2L has been invited to the International Marine Bioinvasions Conference in New Orleans, April 9-11, will she will be giving an oral presentation based on her paper "Local Legal Solutions to Global Problem: How Hawai'i Hopes to Protect Its Isolated Ports from Marine Bioinvasions." HEIDI will be arguing how policy and law can start to take over from what has become an internationally accepted scientific certainty that international shipping is having a huge impact on ports' ecosystems, and that the biological contamination is spreading along coastlines. |