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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

NATIVE AMERICAN MOOT COURT COMPETITION was held this past weekend in Tempe Arizona. We sent three teams, MARC NAKAMURA 3L and EMI MORITA 3L, TJ QUAN 3L and MARK HAMILTON 3L, and LEHINAHINA SULLIVAN 2L and KIM CHANBONPIN 3L. MARC won second Best Oralist during the first two rounds. MARC and EMI’s team made it into the top 16 teams (of 50 teams) but got eliminated by a team from Michigan in the semifinal round. We are proud of each of your accomplishments! Thank you for representing us well.

LEGAL WRITING CONSULTANT. Prof. Jill Ramsfield from Georgetown University Law Center will be here this week reviewing our legal writing program. She will be meeting with faculty, staff and students on Tuesday and Wednesday.

JAPAN VISITORS. We welcome more distinguished visitors from Japan this month.

March 8 - 9: Prof. Teruki Tsunemoto and a delegation from Hokkaido Univ. delegation to Office of Int'l Affairs will be here on March 8 and 9 primarily for meetings at Bachman to discuss UH system wide-linkages. Professor Tsunemoto, a former colleague of PROF. MARK LEVIN’s, was here last year to study constitutional law issues relating to Native Hawai'ians.

March 18 – 19: Prof. Masatoshi Kasai, Prof. and former Dean Yoshihiko Nakamori, and Prof. Takashi Muranaka of the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University, will visit our law school as they prepare for the new law school system in Japan. They are interested in our clinical and skills-based law teaching method. Their project is supported by the Ministry of Education (Monbu-kagaku sho).

March 27- Masao Okada, Dean and Professor of Law at Okayama University will visit our school with three other colleagues. Okayama Univ. plans to have a law school in the near future and will research US law school administration, including admission, academic curriculum, student recruiting, and adjunct/clinical professors hiring. “The education at University of Hawaii, the William S. Richardson School of Law is to be a model for us.”

SABBATICAL SITE VISIT. Our periodic review by the Association of American Law Schools is scheduled for spring 2003. The site visit provides a member school with a regularly scheduled opportunity for self-assessment and peer advise from colleagues from other institutions and gathers information

relevant to the school’s compliance with AALS membership requirements. Special attention is devoted to faculty scholarship, teaching quality, and the institutional efforts to assure a diverse intellectual community.

BARILYN SAKAMOTO, our Library Technician, and husband Isaac are expecting their first child on April 2 (Bari's birthday). Bari will be taking about 10 months of maternity leave. Her last day will probably be March 15th. Best wishes!

DEAN LARRY FOSTER has just returned from Japan where he visited President Sei Fujita and the faculty at Osaka U. of Economics and Law as well as Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. He also met with senior partners at the major Tokyo law firm of Nagashima and Ono where he promoted our LLM program to start in fall 2003, pending final approval.

VIRGINIA HENCH will be one of the co-authors of a Seventh Edition of a Criminal Law casebook to be published by Foundation Press by the end of 2002.

CASEY JARMAN’s newest publication “Making Your Voice Count: A Citizen Guide to Contested Case Hearings” has just been printed. The Workbook, published by the Environmental Law Program, is designed as a companion to the video “Presenting Your Case: Highlights of an Agency Hearing.” PROF. JARMAN acknowledges several students, alumns and faculty in the forward.

VISITING PROF. YASUTOMO MORIGIWA has been invited to speak about the limitations of legal ethics in governing good lawyer behavior as part of the Law and Society series to be held on March 18 here in CR 1.

Our JESSUP MOOT COURT TEAM, LEILANI TAN 3L, CHASTITY IMAMURA 3L, WIL YAMOMOTO 3L, VANESSA JANN-JORDAN 3L and KANOE KANE 2L, have left for Washington D.C. to compete in the national and international Jessup International Moot Court Championship, after having won the Pacific Regional Title earlier this semester.

LAW LIBRARIAN SUSAN WEBER’s son Max age 5 is on the cover of this month’s Hawaii Business. Max is in kindergarten at Noelani School. The cover story is “How to Fix Hawaii’s Public Schools.”