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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

The ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM has two upcoming events. In addition to the “Friends of the ELP Program Reception” on Monday, April 22, the ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SOCIETY will hold its annual Pa'ina on Tues, May 21, 2002, the day after law school graduation.

APLPJ’s 3 day INTERNATIONAL ADR CONFERENCE held last week at the East West Center was covered by The Honolulu Advertiser on April 11, 2002 in an article, “Dispute-resolution Techniques Presented to Asia Trade.” This first time event coordinated by the students of APLPJ was an outstanding success. Over 50 attendees from 14 different countries attended. Special kudos to: BARTLETT DURAND 3L – Conference Director, DAWN NAGATANI 3L – Conference Treasurer, MARC NAKAMURA 3L – Budget and Finance Committee, and MELODY KUBO 3L – Conference Coordinator.

Aloha to NANCY WESTCOTT, our Library Head of Technical Services, who joined the law school in 1992 and will be retiring soon. Her last day at school will be at the end of this month. Upon retirement, she will move to Thousand Oaks, California to be near her children and continue volunteer work.

The Law of the Sea Institute, which was sponsored by the William
S. Richardson School of Law from 1977 until it moved to the University of Miami in 1997, has relocated once again, and will now be sponsored by the Earl Warren Legal Center at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

April is a busy month for law school activities. Wed. April 24, 2002, is Law School Spirit Day – so wear your WSRSL shirt to school!

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White has just passed away. Justice White visited the law school several years ago as part of our Jurists-in-Residence Program.

DEAN LARRY FOSTER has been named member of the Advisory
Group to plan for an international conference on legal education to be held in 2004. The tentative title for the conference is "Training for a Transnational Law Practice." Dean Foster was a member of the planning committee for the initial conference that was held in Italy in 1990. Hawaii is being considered as a possible site for the 2004 conference.
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RON BROWN presented a talk on "Law in China and Its Impact on Foreign Policy" at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies at the Conference on China's Leadership Transition held on April 9, 2002.

DAVID CALLIES presented a paper on urban redevelopment incentives as part of a panel presentation cosponsored by the APA Planning and Law Division and the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law at the annual meeting of the American Planning Association in Chicago during the week of April 12-16. Also

presenting was visiting professor (spring 2001) Dan Tarlock, who sends his regards to all. PROF. CALLIES along with Emeritus Professor and past Urban Planning Department Chair Tom Dinell were formally inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners at a ceremony at the meeting.

PROF.CALLIES is also presenting a paper on state land use controls at a symposium on land use and the environment sponsored by the Pace University Law School Land Use Law Center in Cold Creek, New York.

DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES is a speaker this week at the Hui’s symposium "Beyond Rice v. Cayetano: Its Impacts and Progeny,” which will examine the far-reaching implications of this U.S. Supreme Court decision on not only Native Hawaiians, but other indigenous and ethnic groups as well. PROF. CONWAY-JONES’ topic will be “The perpetuation of privilege and anti-affirmative action in Rice v. Cayetano.”

LAURIE TOCHIKI just returned from the NALP conference in Kansas City. She has been named the Vice-Chair of the Diversity in Employment Committee for the National Association o f Law Placement Professionals.

JON VAN DYKE taught the Ocean Law class at American Univ. on March 19, 2002, while making a presentation on environmental litigation using the Alien Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. sec. 1350) to a meeting at the American University Law School sponsored by the
Center for International Environmental Law/CIEL. PROF.VAN DYKE serves on the Advisory Board of CIEL.

On March 28, 2002, PROF. VAN DYKE and his wife Sherry Broder spoke to a meeting of the Human Rights Fellows at Harvard Law School on the current litigation challenging the constitutionality of programs for the native Hawaiian people.

IAN HLAWATI 3L was accepted at New York University for an LL.M. in Labor and Employment Law and will be attending the program this fall.

UH's victory at the Jessup Moot Court regional competition was noted in the April 2002 issue of the Hawaii Bar Journal.

FAYE KURREN ’79 was named the 2002 Pacific Business News Businesswoman of the Year. BEADIE DAWSON’81 was also among the honorees.

HELENE PARKER ’95 is the managing partner at Mosher Parker & Walter, LLP, Attorneys & Mediators in Dallas, Texas.