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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Last week’s 2002 Jurists-in Residence Program with US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (returning for a 3rd visit) and the law school’s dear friend and original founder of the JIR program, US Court of Appeals Eight Circuit Judge Myron Bright, was a tremendous success, bringing great visibility to the law school and the university.

Thanks to the faculty, especially JON VAN DYKE, DAVID CALLIES and SCOTT BURNHAM, the students, led by SBA PRES. DELLA AU-BELATTI 2L and law review co-editors SHEREE NITTA 3L and BECKY CHESTNUT 3L and especially to EILEEN BROMS, BRYAN CHEPLIC and DEAN LARRY FOSTER for their months of preparation and attention to every detail! The program included the jurists’ participation in several law school classes, a presentation and reception with local judges and attorneys at the Hawaii Supreme Court, a talk to a large public audience at the Honolulu Rotary Club, a private faculty luncheon and a visit to Punahou School to meet with high school students. Gov. and Mrs. Ben Cayetano, as well as Mrs. Kit Dobelle, many judges, members of the Board of Regents and other special guests attended the closing dinner at the Kahala Mandarin. PROF. DAVID CALLIES also paid a special tribute to C.J. WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON. The Jurists-in-Residence program was sponsored for the second time by the law firm of Case Bigelow & Lombardi.

The week ended with a symposium sponsored by our UH Law Review on the U.S. Supreme Court case Palazzolo v. Rhode Island authored by Justice Kennedy. Although Justice Kennedy was not at the symposium, over a hundred lawyers, members of the public and the university attended the panel discussion that ended in a very lively, informative question and answer period. The papers presented at the symposium by the distinguished professors and attorneys will be published in a special UH Law Review issue. The symposium was funded by the Benjamin A. Kudo Chair of Law Endowment Fund.

WELCOME to four new Visiting Scholars and Practitioners to the law school. AYE MOE is an intellectual property and foreign investment lawyer from Burma. Prof. BOBBY NAUDE is a senior lecturer at Unisa in South Africa where he teaches evidence in the Department of Criminal and Procedural Law. Prof. PAUL THOMASSIN is from McGill University in Canada where he teaches in the Department of Agricultural Economics. He did his undergraduate work at UH. Prof. MARK WOJCIK is here on a year’s sabbatical from John Marshall Law School where he teaches International Business Transactions, International Human Rights, gay and lesbian law and lawyering skills.

DENISE ANTOLINI’s 138-page article on public nuisance – “Modernizing Public Nuisance: Solving the Paradox of the Special Injury Rule” – was published last week by the nation’s leading evnrionmental law journal, Boalt Hall School of Law’s Ecology Law Quarterly (Volume 28:3, 2001).

KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI’s “The First Report of the Select Advisory Committee on Business Reorganization (SABRE)” and the “SABRE Annotated Resource List” are now in print in the November issue of the Business Lawyer. PROF. GEBBIA-PINETTI wrote both as Reporter to SABRE.

KAREN GEBBIA PINETTI’s most recent publication, titled “Small Business Reorganization and the SABRE Proposals” is now in page proofs and will be forthcoming in the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Business Law this spring.

Our CLIENT COUNSELING TEAM, BRENDAN BAILEY 3L, NORMAN CHENG 3L, LEIGHTON HARA 3L and ROBERT HARRIS 3L, just returned Chapman University where they competed in the Regional Client Counseling Competition. The team, coached by ASST. DEAN LAURIE TOCHIKI, tied for 3rd Place. Congratulations on an excellent performance!

ENVIRONMENTAL MOOT COURT TEAM members DELLA AU BELLATI 2L, CAL CHIPCHASE 3L and CHRIS KEMPNER 3L will be leaving for Pace University Law School next week to compete in the National Environmental Moot Court Competition between Feb. 20 and 23. The team has been coached by PROF. DENISE ANTOLINI.

JAMIE TANABE 3L has an article announced in the latest on-line edition of the Current Index to Legal Periodicals – a paper she wrote for PROF. DENISE ANTOLINI’S Environmental Law Class Fall 2000: Tanabe, Jamie Y. Comment. The Commerce Clause pendulum: will federal environmental law survives in the post SWANCC epoch of “new federalism”? (Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States army Corps of Engineers (SWANCC), 531 U.S. 159, 2001.) 31 Envtl. L. 1051-1088 (2001).

CINDY GOODNESS’95 is fighting a battle with leukemia, a result of chemotherapy. Cindy has undergone a bone marrow transplant and is at the City of Hope Hospital in California. If you would like to buy a ticket to a fundraiser set-up by her friends, contact CATHY REMEGIO’92 at 586-2214. The $20 ticket will gain admission to Kapono’s on 2/17/02 from noon-6 p.m and pupus, entertainment, door prizes. Any donation is welcome. Please make checks to: Cindy Aiko Leimomi Goodness.