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Faculty

Welcome to our newest faculty member, DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES, from the University of Memphis.

Welcome back to our China law specialist, ALISON CONNER, who returns from Washington D.C. as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. We also welcome back returning Visitor STEVE KROPP. Our new visitors this semester are ALISON RIESER from the University of Maine and TAKASHI MARUTA from Kwansei Gakuin University.

Several new adjuncts join us this semester, Magistrate LESLIE KOBAYASHI, MICHAEL FORMBY, TIMOTHY HO'87, RONETTE KAWAKAMI'85, MELODIE MACKENZIE'76, SHAWNA SODERSTEN'91.

CASEY JARMAN will be on sabbatical this year and KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI will be on leave this semester.

HAZEL BEH was recently selected by the UH Board of Regents for the Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest teaching award at the University. She will be honored at a ceremony at the East West Center and a luncheon at Campus Center with other honorees on September 7, 2000.

HAZEL BEH and CALVIN PANG received tenured and were promoted to Associate Professors of Law.

JON VAN DYKE's latest co-authored book was published this summer by West Group and is a casebook titled "International Law and Litigation in the U.S."

ERIC YAMAMOTO was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Award that allowed his summer study at the Bellagio Study Institute in Bellagio, Italy. This prestigious award is reserved for, and brings together for a summer in a stimulating intellectual community, well-established and important scholars from around the world. Eric's book project will be "Re-Forming Civil Rights in Uncivil Times."

PAUL SCHWIND3L recently received the first prize in the American Planning Association, Hawaii Chapter's essay contest for his Second Year Seminar paper "THE LEGAL SUFFICIENCY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING EXACTIONS IN HAWAII AFTER DOLAN."

The Environmental Law Society's annual fundraiser PAINA was held the day after our May graduation and raised over $1800 from its silent auction for ELS scholarships. The event was held at Queen Emma Summer Palace.

The August 4 issue of Pacific Business News named JEN KUNISHIMA'98, founder and owner of Hawaii Doggie Bakery, and LYNN ARAKI '95, a solo practitioner, as two of forty Young Hawai`i business superstars under the age of 40. This was the first time the "40 Under 40" list has been compiled.

SUSAN KIYOMI SERRANO '98, has been awarded the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellowship for 2000-2001. Ms. Serrano is starting work this September with the renown Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. The Fellowship is considered to be among the country's top civil rights fellowships for new lawyers. Her work will include litigation, policy and community work in areas of employment, voting, language rights, housing, economic development, coalition politics and education. Ms. Serrano is finishing a law clerkship for the Hawaii Supreme Court with Justices Klein and Ramil, and is a published legal scholar. In 1997, as a second year law student, Ms. Serrano won a national competition for the best racial justice writing, receiving the Trina Grillo Critical Race Theory Award.

Three new endowments were established this past summer.

The Lucy E. Pence Endowment for Faculty Excellence will be funded with $100,000.00 from the Lucy Elizabeth Pence Trust. At the current pay out rate from the UH Foundation, the Lucy Pence Endowment for Faculty Excellence will provide $5,000 annually.

A second Endowment for Faculty Excellence will be funded with $50,000.00 also from the Lucy Elizabeth Pence Trust.

Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel has joined Marshall and Ruth Caley Goodsill in establishing an endowment in the firm's name. The Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel Endowed Fund will be funded over the next few years.