William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Welcome back to school after a long winter break! KE KULA KANAWAI is our weekly (during the semester) online newsletter about happenings in the law school community. Please send your news items to lawnews@hawaii.edu or contact Carol Mon Lee, 956-8636.

Aloha to our new transfer and visiting law students. We also welcome Fujiyama Chair Visiting Professor LIZ MOODY from Stetson and Visiting Prof. SCOTT BURNHAM from the Univ. of Montana. Our newest staff member is CATHE THOMAS, the Bibliographic Services/Systems Librarian in the Law Library. Our newest Visiting Scholar is Professor HOWARD LATIN from Rutgers University School of Law, Newark. Away this semester are HAZEL BEH, teaching at Hastings, ERIC YAMAMOTO, the Haywood Burns Civil Rights Chair Professor at CUNY and CALVIN PANG, at Univ.of Minnesota.

DENISE ANTOLINI's article "Hawaii's Environmental Law Students Pursue Public Service Careers" appeared in the December issue of the Hawaii Bar Journal.

DAVID CALLIES co-chaired and spoke at the Hawai'I Land Use and Takings Law seminar, a two day conference on Jan. 17 and 18 also featuring DENISE ANTOLINI on the Endangered Species Act and CASEY JARMAN on Land Use Commission - Responsibilities, Impacts and Current Challenges. Other speakers included former and current adjuncts BEN KUDO, PATRICK HANIFIN and ALAN MURAKAMI.

DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES was a panelist at the Association of American Law School's annual conference in New Orleans in early January on the topic "Teaching Across Campuses:Cooperative Efforts and Distance Learning."

LARRY FOSTER's article "Hawaii's Role in Law Reform in Japan" appeared in the Hawaii Bar Journal's December issue.

CASEY JARMAN was among the panelists with UH Pres. Evan Dobelle at the School of Architecture's open forum on Jan. 16 discussing proposals to transform the structure and form of the university system.

MARK LEVIN's 2001 article "Essential Commodities and Racial Justice" was included in Japan's national law journal Horitsu Jiho's "Annual Review of Legal Scholarship." His was among only four English language writings selected in the constitutional law field.

CALVIN PANG, flying in from Minnesota for the afternoon where he has been visiting this year, was also a panelist at AALS on the topic "Faculty Responses to Students' Competing Concerns."

ERIC YAMAMOTO is prominently featured in the current issue of Malamalama, the UH magazine under the title "Profile of Courage: Two UH professors challenge the status quo to help individuals and right entrenched wrongs."

Also mentioned in Malamalama are Prof. RON BROWN and several alums including PAT LEE ’79 (U.H. Regent), MIKE NAUYOKAS ‘89, TRUDY SENDA ‘83, HELENE GAY PARKER ‘95, DAN OBUHANYCH ‘98, SCOTT MORITA ‘98, KEONI SHULTZ ‘00, HELEN ZELDES ‘00, DEAN UEHARA ‘00, LORI KAISER ‘00, REGAN IWAO ‘00, and CJ DUNCAN ‘00.

JANE KWAN 2L is in Hong Kong this semester externing at the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Public Law with Prof. Carole Petersen, wife of former UH law prof. CHARLIE BOOTH.

EMILY LAROQUE 3L passed the patent bar exam administered by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

DAVID '01 and MIRABAI (former staff member) BREEMER '01 became the proud parents of Travis Nathan Breemer on Dec. 17, 2001 weighing in at 8lbs, 13 oz.

BRIAN '00 and Amy SHAUGHNESSY became the proud parents of Amadeus Yun Chi Shaughnessy, born September 6. Brian is working part-time at Legal Aid and working on a memoir dealing with his life since acquiring a disability titled “The Squeaky Wheel -- An Unauthorized Autobiography.”

JOSH STANBRO, former visiting student from UC Boalt Hall, has accepted the Project Associate position with the Honolulu office of the Trust for Public Lands.

Former Adjunct CARL CHRISTENSEN has moved to Washington D.C. to become a senior counsel for the majority staff of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. He noted that his office takes interns. Contact him at 838 Senate Hart Office Building.

Former Visiting Prof. CARL MONK, Executive Director of AALS, referred to his days teaching at UH in an article about the September 11 tragedy in the November 2001 issue of the Assoc. of Amer. Law Schools newsletter. He thanked the two UH law students in 1990 who brought alive to him the tragedy of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II by sharing very personal information about their own families.