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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Congratulations to our JESSUP INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT TEAM winning the Pacific Regional Competition this past weekend at BYU Laie! LEILANI TAN 3L, WIL YAMAMOTO 3L, CHASTITY IMAMURA 3L, VANESSA JANN-JORDAN 3L and KANOELANI KANE 2L emerged triumphant over 11 other teams -- Stanford, Hastings, BYU, Cal Western, Chapman, Loyola-LA, McGeorge, Pepperdine, Santa Clara, Thomas Jefferson, and USF. A rare occurrence, three of our students won best oralists awards: Leilani was the second-best oralist of the competition, Wil was fifth best, and Chastity was ninth best. The team will represent the Pacific Region in the National and International Competition in Washington, D.C., in March. This year's topic was regulation of access to the Internet. Prof. JON VAN DYKE is the team coach. This is the team's sixth regional title in 10 years!

Dean LARRY FOSTER and his wife Brenda Lei Foster, Executive Assistant to Gov. Ben Cayetano for International and National Affairs, were interviewed on Channel 2's morning show on Tuesday, Jan 29, as one of Hawaii's "power couples".

CAROL MON LEE was elected to the board of directors of the Mediation Center of the Pacific.

AMY ONO will be attending a training session at the National Association of Law Placement in San Diego this week. Amy also served as a judge at the Jessup Competition this weekend.

DAVID CALLIES will be moderating the Friday, Feb. 8 Symposium on "Property Rights after Palazzolo." The US Supreme Court case Palazzolo v. Rhode Island was authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Several distinguished lawyers and law professors will be here to participate in the program sponsored by the UH LAW REVIEW.

ALISON CONNER has been invited to participate in a conference on "The American Context of China's Christian Colleges,"sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation to be held at Wesleyan University in September 2003. Her paper topic is "The Educated Lawyer."

KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI will be attending the ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting, April 4-7 in Boston where she will be presenting two papers, "Incumbent Management: Do they Stay and Does it Matter" as part of the Business Bankruptcy Committee Chapter 11 subcommittee's "Incumbent Management" Program and "ADR in Bankruptcy: The SABRE Proposals" as part of the "ADR in Bankruptcy" program, jointly sponsored by the Business Bankruptcy Committee and the Dispute Resolution Committee. In addition, PROF. GEBBIA-PINETTI will Chair and moderate a program entitled "What You Don't Know About Lease Claims in Bankruptcy May Shock You!" jointly presented by the Business Bankruptcy Claims & Priorities Subcommittee (which she vice-chairs) and the Business Bankruptcy Claims Trading Subcommittee and she will also co-chair the Bankruptcy Claims Rulemaking Project task force.

LEI SEEGER and LAURIE TOCHIKI will be attending the American Bar Association's Site Visit Workshop on February 9 in Chicago in preparation for our site visit scheduled for spring 2003.

JON VAN DYKE will be appearing on Olelo on Monday, Feb. 4 and the next three Mondays evenings at 8:30 p.m., in an hour-long discussion with Former Governor John Waihe`e III '76 and OHA Trustee Rowena Akana, on Hawaiian issues before the Legislature.

JON VAN DYKE was in Paris in December to deliver a paper on the "Precautionary Principle" to the meeting at UNESCO reviewing ocean developments during the 10 years since the RIO proclamation on the environment. In late November, PROF. VAN DYKE gave a paper at Harvard comparing the US annexation of Hawaii to the Japanese annexation of Korea - meeting of Korean and Japanese scholars exploring the international law affecting the Japanese annex of Korea 1905 to 1945.

CLIENT COUNSELING TEAM, BRENDAN BAILEY 3L, NORMAN CHENG 3L, LEIGHTON HARA 3L and ROBERT HARRIS 3L will be leaving for Chapman University this week to compete in the Regional Client Counseling Competition to be held on February 9. The team coach is ASST. DEAN LAURIE TOCHIKI.

IAN HLAWATI 3L has been accepted into the LLM program at Georgetown University Law Center.

Our first CAREER DAY, held on Saturday, January 26, 2002, included panel presentations on the practice of law in Hawai'i and mock interview sessions to practice interviewing skills and obtain feedback. Mahalo Nui Loa to our alumni who served as panelists and interviewers, and to our students for ensuring the success of Career Day 2002! The event was organized by DIR. of CAREER SERVICES, AMY ONO '00 and will be repeated on an annual basis in the future. Alumns who spent their Saturday with us:

DANA ISHIBASHI ‘86
MICHAEL KALISH ‘99
AMY KANETA ‘01
MICHELLE KIM ‘01
KEVIN KIMURA ‘99
PATRICIA LEE ‘79
FLORENCE NAKAKUNI ‘79
CAROLYN OSHIRO ‘94
MELISSA VINCENTY ‘99
HEATHER WILLIAMS ‘97