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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 6, No. 1 | Week of August 27, 2001 |
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| Aloha and welcome to our new students, staff, adjunct and
visiting faculty and visiting colleagues! This first and the next issue
of the law school newsletter will include news items collected over the
summer. |
| Announcements |
| CARL SELINGER, former law school professor between '75-78
and Associate Dean in '75-76, passed away in July. He had been a Professor
at the Univ. of West Virginia Law School. |
| The Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal has recently published
a special issue on Japanese legal reforms. This issue follows up on the
APLPJ's first symposium on Japanese Legal Education Reform in its inaugural
issue. aplpj@hawaii.edu http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj |
| Administration/Staff |
| AMY ONO'00 has joined the law school as Director of Career Services/Assistant Director of Student Services. While a law student, Amy distinguished herself as host coordinator of the 2000 National Native American Moot Court Competition and won the Amy C. Richardson Award for best Second Year Seminar paper on a Native Hawaiian issue. |
| TRAVIS MIMURA, new ASUH president, is also an ace student microcomputer specialist in the law library, second in seniority to DJ FUSERO. Travis has worked here for three years, first at the Circulation desk and the last two years, with Computer Services |
| Faculty |
| SUSAN WEBER is the new Public Services Librarian. She had been the Research Librarian at the State Legislative Reference Bureau. She has also worked for the legislature, administrative agencies and the judiciary. Susan's MLIS is from UH and her JD from Hastings. |
| CHRIS IIJIMA has been named a 2001 recipient of a Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award from UH Manoa. The award recognizes faculty members for their extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity, and personal values beneficial to students. He joins Prof. HAZEL BEH and Prof. KAREN GEBBIA PINETTI as recent recipients of Excellence in Teaching Awards. PROF. IIJIMA was also promoted to Associate Professor this summer. |
| DAVID CALLIES will moderate an ABA program on "The Supreme
Court Speaks: Regulatory Takings after Palazzolo" on September 11.
The program will be a TeleConference broadcasted nationwide. Prof. Callies
has also received an invitation from the Oxford University Press to write
a 2000-word essay on zoning for the Oxford Companion to American Law. |
| RON BROWN was recently elected to the Executive Board of the
prestigious International Society for Labor Law and Social Security; he
delivered a lecture entitled "Rule of Law in China" at the Japanese
Cultural Plaza, sponsored by JAIMS in the China Seminar Series; and gave
a lecture at the Center for Chinese Studies on "Legal Implications
of China's Entry Into WTO." |
| KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI was promoted to Full Professor this summer. |
| ERIC YAMAMOTO's newest book has been published by Aspen Publications, "Race, Rights, and Reparations: Law and the Japanese American Internment" which he wrote and edited along with Professors Margaret Chon (Loyola), Carol Izumi (George Washington), Jerry Kang (UCLA), and Frank Wu (Howard). |
| CALVIN PANG is a Visiting Professor of Clinical Instruction at the University of Minnesota School of Law this year where he is teaching Civil Practice Clinic and Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiations. He hopes to finish an essay entitled "Revisioning the Warrior Lawyer" and work with the huge Hmong and Somali refugee communities there. |
| Students |
| Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii awarded its VLSH Student Distinguished
Service Niu Award to our FAMILY LAW CLINIC Spring 2001 students, DARCY KISHIDA,
PAUL LIN-EASTON, CHERYL ARAKAKI, RENEE FURUTA,SCOTT MIYASATO, DAMON PANG and JON ZAHABY and this year's instructor, CAROLYN OGAMI. The students all graduated this past May. Our Family Law Clinic has won this award before, when Assistant Dean LAURIE TOCHIKI was the instructor. |
| HEIDI GUTH 3L spent the summer on an internship at the UN's International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany. |
| SHAWN CHING 1L was seen this summer in full color modeling "business casual" attire in the new local publication "Venture," a magazine of risk and reward. |
| Alumni |
| MICHAEL LIU'77, has been confirmed as the Assistant Secretary at the Department
of Housing and Urban Development. |
| PATRICIA Y. LEE '79 is a new Regent, replacing Lily Yao on the UH Board of Regents. Pat is a partner at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel and is also the Honorary Consul of France for Hawaii. |
| BRIAN BRINKOPF '87 passed away over the summer after a long bout with cancer. |