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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 5, No. 27 | Week of April 30, 2001 |
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| This is the last Ke Kula Kanawai for the 2000-2001
school year. Continue sending information about your achievements and activities
so they can be shared with the law school community in the fall. Best wishes
for a successful exam period and productive summer! And thank you for your
good cheer throughout this unique year. |
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| Announcements |
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| The law school will be receiving extra funds for
technology infrastructure to acquire a second projection system (lap top
and portable projector) as well as to fully upgrade our computer lab and
create an E-learning center on wheels. Mahalo to Prof. LEI SEEGER and her
staff in putting together the proposal. |
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| Congratulations DIDIER "DJ" FUSERO,
the Law Library's Senior Student Microcomputer Specialist, who was named
Outstanding Student Employee of the Year 2001 for the University of Hawai`i
at Manoa AND the Outstanding Student Employee 2001 for the State of Hawai`i
at the Student Employment awards luncheon on April 26. The state-level accolade
is awarded by the Western Association of Student Employment Administrators
(WASEA), a regional organization of student employment professionals in
the western U.S. DJ has been our primary technology support person since
October 1999 and has worked at the Law Library since January, 1998. DJ has
virtually single-handedly designed and set up the library's internal networks,
the computer lab and printers, the wireless network (currently operational),
and staff and public terminals, with customized applications. DJ will be
completing his degree in Mechanical Engineering next year. |
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| The award winning ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM BROCHURE
has been updated and reprinted with copies to be distributed nationwide.
MO`OLELO II will also be mailed out soon with an article on the Endangered
Species Act by DARCY KISHIDA 3L. |
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| Faculty |
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| HAZEL BEH'S article, "Tort Liability for
Intentional Acts of Family Members: Will Your Insurer Stand By You?" has just been published in 68 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (2000). And news from Alum KEN SCHWARTZ '00 that PROF. BEH's article "Student Versus University" published last year was cited in Sharick v. Southeastern University of Health Sciences, Inc., 26 Fla. L. Weekly D908 (April 13, 2001). The opinion summarizes her findings just before it concludes, using PROF.BEH's conclusion as support for its own. |
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| DAVID CALLIES and VISITING PROF. TSUYOSHI KOTAKA
(Meijo University) have edited "Taking Land" a collection of essays
on compulsory purchase and land use control laws in twelve Asia-Pacific
countries. The book represents the culmination of a five-year comparative
law project conducted with research funds from the Hanshin Expressway Corporation
in Osaka, Japan. The University of Hawaii Press has accepted the book for
publication expected in early 2002. |
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| DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES has been offered the lead
position in University of Richmond Law Review's January 2002 General Issue.
The article is titled, "Factual Causation in Toxic Tort Litigation:
A Philosophical View of Proof and Certainty in Uncertain Disciplines." |
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| MARK LEVIN attended conferences of Japanese law
scholars at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and at the University
of Michigan in early April. At the Victoria conference, he facilitated a
discussion on studies of human rights in Japanese law. In Ann Arbor, PROF.
LEVIN was a panelist assigned to critique another scholar's forthcoming
research on tobacco-related litigation in Japan. Returning to Honolulu,
PROF. LEVIN was a panelist at the 2001 Hawaii State Tobacco Control Conference
"Seeing through the Smoke," speaking about global tobacco control
issues in international law. On May 2nd, PROF. LEVIN will be a panelist
at an Afternoon Roundtable posted by the Japan America Society of Hawaii
titled "The Ehime Maru Tragedy: Lessons Learned for the U.S. and Japan."
PROF. LEVIN's comments will offer a comparison of the U.S. and Japanese legal systems focusing on the role of apology in the legal process. PROF. LEVIN's article "Essential Commodities and Racial Justice:Using Constitutional Protection of Japan's Indigenous Ainu People to Inform Understandings of the United States and Japan" was just published in NYU Journal of Int'l. Law and Policy, Vol 33. No. 2, Winter 2001. |
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| JON VAN DYKE is in Guam and Saipan for a few days
teaching continuing legal education programs to their bar associations and
meeting with our alumni. |
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| RON BROWN was recently elected to the Executive
Board of the prestigious International Society for Labor Law and Social
Security; last week he delivered a lecture entitled "Rule of Law in
China" at the Japanese Cultural Plaza, sponsored by JAIMS in the China
Seminar Series; last month PROF. BROWN gave a lecture at the Center for
Chinese Studies on "Legal Implications of China's Entry Into WTO;"
in January, PROF. BROWN visited Taiwan as a member of a Scholars and Experts
delegation to meet with Taiwanese leaders regarding new political and legal
developments. |
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| Students |
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| Congratulations to this year's Appellate Advocacy winners: | ||
| Section | Best Brief | Best Oralist |
| 1 | DUKE OISHI |
GLENN AKIONA |
| 2 | ERIN LUM STANTON OISHI |
KELLIE PENDRAS LIANN EBESUGAWA |
| 3 | JAMES OTA | HANNAH GUTIRREZ |
| 4 | JOIE YUEN | CHANDARA HU |
| 5 | KANOELANI KANE |
PATRICIA KALISH JASON WOLF |
| Best Overall Brief: STANTON OISHI | ||
| Congratulations to the newly elected SBA Officers: SBA President: DELLA AU 2L SBA Vice-President : DUKE OISHI 2L 2L Representatives: ERIN LUM, HANNAH GUTIERREZ and CALE WOFFORD 3L Representatives: LAURA ALBRIGHT, JAMIE TANABE and NORMAN CHENG Admissions Committee: DESIREE HIKIDA and SONYA MCCULLEN Curriculum Committee: CALVERT CHIPCHASE 3L Facilities Committee: STEPHEN DUCK 3L |
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| Congratulations to the recipients of the Edmunds Award for
Civility and Vigorous Advocacy: AIMEE DAVIS 3L and MICHELLE KIM 3L. |
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| Alumni |
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| JULES LATHAM (WORSHAM) '00's recently published article on
environmental justice remedies "Disparate Impact Lawsuits Under Title
VI, Section 602: Can a Legal Toll Build Environmental Justice?" 27
B.C. ENVT'L AFF. L. REV. 631 (2000) was cited last week by a federal district
court in New Jersey in an environmental justice case. South Camden Citizens
in Action v. NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, 2001 WL 392472, *35 (April
19, 2001). Her article, which was written for her Second Year Seminar in
1999 with PROF. DENISE ANTOLINI, is described by the court as part of the
"extensive debate among legal scholars" on the issue of private
remedies in such cases. The court held that NJ's failure to consider the
disparate impacts of permitting an industrial cement plant in an impoverished
neighborhood of color violated EPA's regulations implementing Title VI of
the Civil Rights Act. |
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