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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

The March 2002 issue of The National Jurist lists those law schools as “Best School for Your Money.” University of Hawaii is listed as a “Very Good Value” for public schools. Factors include tuition, bar pass rates, unemployment rates, median grants, clinic slots and faculty-student ratio.

ABA SITE INSPECTION. The dates for our site visit have been set for March 2-5, 2003. It will be lead by Pauline Schneider, a Washington D.C. attorney.

BARILYNE SAKAMOTO, our library technician, gave birth to baby girl, Sierra, on March 17 weighing 5½ lbs. Congratulations to Bari and Isaac!

COUNSELING SERVICES – as times of stress like finals approach, there are campus resources available. The Counseling and Student Development Center is at 2600 Campus Road (Student Services Center Room 312). Services are confidential and most are provided without cost to full-time UH students. Call 956-7927. Employees can also seek assistance from the Resource for Employee Assistance and Counseling Help program “REACH. Contact 956-8643.

DAVID CALLIES is being honored on Monday April 8 by the Hawai’i Chapter of the American Planning Association for induction as a 2002 Fellow in the American Institute of Certified Planners. He will later be recognized at the 2002 APA National Conference held in Chicago. The event will be at Alan Wong’s Pineapple Room. Contact Lynn Fukuhara at 521-5631.

DAVID CALLIES’ article “Historic Preservation Law in the United States” was published in the March edition of the Environmental Law Reporter at 32 ELR 10348. Professor TSUYOSHI KOTAKA, who has visited and taught here several times, has translated the article into Japanese for publication in the Meijo University Law Review.

MARK LEVIN has been selected to serve as the 2002-03 Faculty Resident Director for the U-H Year-in-Japan Study Abroad Program in Kobe, Japan. In addition to teaching courses, the Resident Director oversees students' academic progress, and provides student services to approximately 40 student participants. The program is coordinated by a five university consortium; UH, Arizona State Univ., Michigan State Univ, U. Illinois, and U. Pittsburgh. PROF. LEVIN will serve
on behalf of the Consortium in conjunction with Konan University, the host university for the program.

JIM PIETSCH is presenting a Caregiver Workshop for the Alzheimer’s Association entitled “Elder Law Hawai’i – protecting your health, wealth and personal wishes” on April 12.

JON VAN DYKE participated in a meeting on Human Rights and the Environment sponsored by the Center for International Environmental at American University, Washington D.C. on March 19. The same group then made a presentation to the Organization of American States the next day.

HISPANIC MOOT COURT TEAM members, DESIREE HIKIDA 3L, LINDA ARAGON 2L, KIM CHANPONBIN 2L and LEHINAHINA SULLIVAN 2L, returned from the Windy City. Although they didn't place in the competition, their oral presentations went extremely well. LINDA is being considered for the new Region IX representative for the Hispanic National Bar Association Law Student Division.

2002-03 PHI DELTA PHI officers have been announced:
Co-Magisters: SCOTT SUZUKI 1L and CHRISTOPHER COX 1L
Vice Magister: JOSHUA MEDEIROS 1L
Exchequer: LORI AMANO 1L
Special Events Chairpersons: JENNIFER YOUNG 1L and KATHRYN SMITH 1L
Clerk: MAX HANNEMANN 2L
Historian: JILL HASEGAWA 1L

2002-03 Environmental Law Society officers have also been announced.
Director: SUELYN TRAN 1L
Co-Director: TOOTIE GLENDON 2L
Administrative Asst: PAUL HERRAN 1L
Treasurer: ERIN ATKINSON 1L
Project Coordinators: JILL RAZNOV 2L and DAVID PAULSON 1L

TONI ELLINGTON ’99 is clerking for a magistrate judge at the federal court in Oklahoma City. On May 1, she will start work at McKinney & Stringer, which does environmental law, especially regulatory and permitting work.

BYRON SHIBATA ’00 currently teaching law at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, will have an article published in the St. Louis Journal of Law and Policy entitled “Land-Use Law in the US and Japan: A Fundamental Overview and Comparative Analysis.”