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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

INTERNATIONAL ADR CONFERENCE sponsored by Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal is scheduled for this week, April 10-12, with sessions at the East–West Center. Over 60 participants from 13 countries have registered so far.

US News and World Report’s annual ranking of graduate schools has just been published. Our Environmental Law Program is ranked in the top 20 (up from top 25 three years ago). Congratulations to Program Director PROF. CASEY JARMAN and the environmental law faculty. In the main ranking, our school remains firmly in the 2nd tier.

The William S. Richardson LL.M. Program for International Students brochure has just been published. The program is scheduled to start in Fall 2003, pending final approval. Contact PROF. ALISON CONNER, Program Director, for more information.

On Friday, April 12, Prof. Setsuo Miyazawa, one of the most influential law professors in Japan on current legal reform, will bring a delegation of 27 practicing lawyers and law professors from Waseda Univ. to visit our school. Prof. Miyazawa has previously contributed two lead articles to APLPJ. The delegation will be touring both the Law School and downtown courts and law offices.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM RECEPTION on April 22 will celebrate our students' accomplishments and the Environmental Law Program's successes with a brief program and a reception for our students, alumni, faculty, friends and donors. Highlights will include comments/presentations from students on our Environmental and International Environmental moot court teams; the Oregon public interest conference; and the Wash. D.C. ALI-ABA environmental law conference.

DENISE ANTOLINI has been awarded a travel grant by The University Research Council to attend the 2002 Biannual Conference of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in Tucson, Arizona, May 14-16. PROF. ANTOLINI will co-chair a workshop training session on "Science, Politics, and Collaborative Problem Solving" designed to train federal agency leaders to integrate scientific

and technical information in their efforts to resolve complex environmental disputes.

ERIC YAMAMOTO spoke at Harvard Law School on the opening plenary session of the inaugural Equal Justice Society Conference earlier this month. This week he will be delivering the keynote address to the New York County Lawyers Association. Later this month, PROF. YAMAMOTO will be speaking at Columbia Law School on diversity in law, and will be on a Public Radio program on reparations. PROF. YAMAMOTO is teaching this semester at CUNY Law School as the holder of the Hayward Burns Civil Rights Chair.

DAVID LUSK 1L will have his first novel published by Publish America. “A Man of War” is a military science fiction book that should be available in trade paperback in the next 6 months.

ELS/Phi Delta Phi stream clean-up over the week-end was a success with lots of participation.

LE‘A KANEHE ’01 has decided to attend UC Boalt Hall's LL.M. Program.

PAUL MURAKAMI ’83 has been appointed as judge of the District Family Court, First Judicial Circuit, subject to confirmation by the State Senate.

MAILE SHIMABUKURO ’00 has dropped to part-time status at Legal Aid as she begins her campaign for House Representative for Wai`anae-Makaha as a Democrat.

DEAN TURMAN ’01 is now working as a patent attorney in Greensboro.

LENNIE LEE has been accepted into the Ph.D. program at UH in Political Science starting in the fall. She hopes to specialize in emerging issues in global aging.