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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

We welcome many visitors from Japan this month.
VISITING PROF. TOMOYASU MORIGIWA from Nagoya Univ. arrives this week to teach his Topics in International Legal Studies –Japan course on the current wave of legal reform in Japan today. He will be here until March 21.

PROF. DARYL ARAKI from Osaka Gakuin Univ., PROF. HIROKO HAYASHI from Fukuoka Univ. and PROF. TERUKI TSUNEMOTO from Hokkaido Univ. are visiting just this week.
PROF. HAYASHI, known as the Ruth Bader Ginsberg of Japan, will be presenting a lecture on Wed. entitled “ Japanese Women- You Have a Long Way to Go” at Kuykendall.

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NEW LAW LIBRARY DISPLAY CASES – a gift to the school from the Class of 1999, are now being set up and will house trophies and student awards.

DEAN FOSTER presented a paper at the University of the Ryukyus on Saturday to help them make the case to their central administration and local government to fund one of the new law schools in Okinawa.

HAZEL BEH’s article "The Role of Institutional Review Boards in Protecting Human Subjects: Are We Ready to Fix a Broken System" has been accepted by Law & Psychology Review, a journal where it will receive interdisciplinary exposure. PROF.BEH, visiting at Hastings this semester, will be returning to Hawaii for a visit during the week of March 11.

SWEE BERKEY, LEI SEEGER, and SUSAN WEBER conducted a research session on federal and state courts and their materials to graduate students in LIS 618, the Government Documents class in the UH Library and Information Science program on Thursday, February 21.

DAVID CALLIES and HEIDI GUTH 3L have an article in the Asia Pacific Law Review, Vol 9. No. 2 (2001). The article,
“Taking Land: Compulsory Purchase and the Regulation of Land in Asia-Pacific Countries” is from the introductory chapter of the new book “Taking Land,”an edited collection of case studies recently published by UH Press and co-edited by former visiting professor TSUYOSHI KOTAKA and Prof. Callies.

DOUG CODIGA will present his essay "Reflections on the Potential Growth of Mindfulness Meditation in the Law"
at a symposium at Harvard Law School on March 8, 2002. PROF.CODIGA’s essay will appear in the upcoming Spring 2002 Volume 7 of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.

JON VAN DYKE’s article entitled “The Legal Regime
Governing Sea Transport of Ultrahazardous Radioactive Materials” has just been published in 33 Ocean Development & International Law 77-108 (2002).

NANCY WESTCOTT, our Technical Services Librarian, has announced her retirement effective June 30 after 10 plus years at the law library. Her last day will probably be April 26.

Our NATIVE AMERICAN MOOT COURT TEAM, KIM CHANBONPIN 2L, MARK HAMILTON 2L, EMI MORITA 3L, MARC NAKAMURA 3L and T.J. QUAN 3L, will be leaving for Arizona State University this week for the national competition.

LORI AMANO 1L has been nominated for the 2002 Governor's Kilohana Awards for Outstanding Volunteerism for her work at the judiciary. The Affirmative Action Officer Awards are to be announced on March 15.

RICK LEVINTHAL 3L had donated to the law library the book “Environmental Law and Enforcement in the Asia-Pacific Rim” published by Seet & Maxwell Asia. RICK co-authored the chapter on Thailand. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR JOHN OKI co-authored the chapter on Japan.

DEAN TURMAN ’01 sends news that he passed the Florida Bar and the US Patent Bar. His registration is pending before the Patent and Trademark Office. He is living with his wife in Florida and fishing a lot while encountering alligators.
deanturman@aol.com

FORMER VISITING PROF. JIM FRIEDBERG from West Virginia Univ. College of Law is spending the spring semester in Macedonia on a Fulbright where he is researching and lecturing on human rights, sovereignty and transitions to democracy. He sends his aloha to all.