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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

We had so many late developments last week that we decided to publish one more issue. THIS is the last regular edition for this year!

EILEEN BROMS will be assuming the post of Interim Director of Development Operations at the UH Foundation on May 6. EILEEN will continue to "volunteer" at the law school, particularly with respect to our new fund raising initiative to build an endowment to support faculty development. This is not a permanent good-bye but thanks, Eileen, for your 9 years at the Law School.

On April 18th, LexisNexis and ITS completed installation of a T1 line at ITS. Underwritten by LexisNexis, installation of this line should speed and stabilize Internet access to its services.

Capt. Dawson of Campus Security met with the staff on Wednesday to review methods of precaution and prevention. He reminded us that the biggest threats to security are convenience (e.g. propping doors open) and complacency (e.g. leaving valuables in plain sight).

DR. PAUL THOMASSIN is our newest Visiting Scholar from McGill Univ. in Canada. He is an agricultural economist and will be working on two papers relating the legal and economic aspects of Hawaii Land Reform

KU LAMA, the faculty/staff newsletter, will cease publication this month. An online publication, News@UH, will debut in June. Job postings will go online.

DEAN LARRY FOSTER is in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing from May 1- 16 to attend the Inter-Pacific Bar Association Annual Meeting and the Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank. He will also be meeting with law firms, alumns and student JANE KWAN, 2L who is doing an externship at Hong Kong University this semester.

CHRIS IIJIMA has been invited to be a presenter at the 2002 National
Academic Assistance Training Workshop hosted by the Univ. of Washington School of Law, Seattle on June 19-22.

SWEE BERKEY, Information Technology/Reference Librarian, is one of 30 invitees to attend the Conference on Teaching Research in Academic Law Libraries on July 18-19. This Conference is sponsored by LexisNexis and precedes the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in Orlando, which Swee, and law librarians CATHERINE THOMAS and SUSAN WEBER will also attend.

Emeritus Prof. RICHARD MILLER was one of the attorneys representing DR. ARLENE JOUXSON '98 and her husband's successful legal action against HMSA. The story made front-page coverage.

JIM PIETSCH was a guest on the cable tv show “The Law and You” on Friday night along with BOR Regent Ah Quon McElrath. The topic was elder law and the show will be rebroadcast.

Environmental Moot Court team, provided the Law Library with four books from the Environmental Law Institute: Environmental Law Deskbook, 6th ed., Wetlands Deskbook, 2d ed., The Art of Commenting, and Air Pollution Control Law: Compliance & Enforcement.

Congratulations to our 1L APPELLATE ADVOCACY award winners:

MARC NAKAMURA, 3L was announced as the winner of this year’s Edmunds Award for Civility and Vigorous Advocacy at the Student Competitions End of Season Celebration last week.

TJ QUAN, 3L and his band and our Halau will be among the live entertainment at the Environmental Law Program’s Pa'ina to be held on May 21.

BARBARA WONG, 2L, a retired assistant police chief, is one of 8 UH students being featured in a new ad campaign on success stories. The campaign promotes the 10-campus system as “a world of learning open to everyone.”

The Galiher/Ono Distinguished Lecture Series funded by GARY GALIHER ’77 and his wife DIANE ONO ’91 has been announced. While funded by lawyers and run through the law school, this Lecture Series is not limited to law.

RANDY GEUY ’01 has been recalled to active duty to serve as a military observer at the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara. He will go to an anti-terrorist/peacekeeping operation school at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, then on to Africa for a six-month tour of duty.

DENNIS YAMASE ’82 has been nominated as Associate Justice for the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia, the highest court in the nation.