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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

SECURITY REMINDER. As an educational and research institution, the delivery of chemicals and biological agents to our facilities are routine activities. Exercise caution with regard to these activities. Suspicious looking envelopes, packages, boxes or devices found or delivered to your premises should not be opened or tampered with. Instead, campus security should be notified immediately at extensions 66911, 68211 or 67260.

VISITING SCHOLARS and PRACTITIONERS. Aloha to several new visitors at the law school this semester. STALE ESKELAND, Professor of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, DR. YONG HEE LEE, Director, Policy Res. & Dev. Dept, Korea Ocean Research & Dev. Inst., KEUN BYUNG "KB" LEE, law partner, Bae, Kim & Lee, Seoul, Korea, HIDETOSHI MASUDA, Professor of Law (tax), Takushoku Univ. Tokyo, Japan, SHINJI YUKIKADO, Professor of Law, Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan, and JIA AIYING, PhD candidate at Beida Univ., Peking, China, where she also completed her law degrees.

WALTER TANAKA, our second floor law building custodian, recently had double bypass heart surgery. He is now at home and recuperating well.

AUW. This year's ALOHA UNITED WAY campaign is underway with the law school goal set at $2500. AUW supports over 60 member agencies, including the American Red Cross and many local community organizations that are in great need of your support. CAROL MON LEE is again the law school's campaign coordinator.

BAR CONVENTION. The Law School will be hosting a booth for the first time at the Hawaii State Bar Convention on Sept. 26 and 28 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Coral Ballroom. Alumni, student and faculty achievements will be displayed. Law Review issues, faculty articles and school t-shirts will also be available.

JON VAN DYKE was in both Istanbul and Seoul this past summer where he presented papers to the International Symposium on the Problems of Regional Seas, organized by the Turkish Marine Research Foundation and to the Seventh International Sea Power Symposium in Korea.

Several of our faculty will be participating at the State Bar Convention this week. In addition to DENISE ANTOLINI, who is co-chair and moderator of the Sept. 27 panel on Environmental ADR: Promise or Peril? JIM PIETSCH will be moderator and presenter at the Elder Law and Medicaid Planning Update Seminar on Sept. 28. JOHN BARKAI is a panelist at the International Commercial Arbitration Process program on Sept. 27.

LAW REVIEW CO-EDITOR ANNE LOPEZ '01 has authorized the printing of volume 23:2 from the 00-01 academic year. UH Law Review is now officially back on time and completely caught up!

The ASIAN-PACIFIC LAW and POLICY JOURNAL and its editor-in-chief MARK HAMILTON announced the following new members: 3L's BARTLETT DURAND, HEIDI GUTH, DEVON ISHII-PETERSON, VANESSA JANN-JORDAN, DEMARIS JOHANEK, MARC NAKAMURA, ANTHONY QUAN, LEILANI TAN, KIM TSUMOTO, and DAVID WARNER. The 2L members are: DELLA AU-BELATTI, RINA CHUNG, MARK COKEE, SHIRLEY GARCIA, JEFF GOLDMAN, JANE KWAN, MICHIKO II, MATT MONEYHON, HELEN NG, and SHELLIE PARK.

CAL CHIPCHASE 3L and DELLA AU-BELATTI 2L have been selected to join team captain CHRIS KEMPNER 3L on the 2001-02 Environmental Law Moot Court Team to be held at Pace University Law School in February.

BARTLETT DURAND 3L wrote an article entitled "A Foreperson Speaks" in the Sept. 2001 issue of the Hawaii Bar Journal about his experience and observations when he was recently selected to serve as a juror in a four day criminal trial, even though he is both a law student and a civil litigation paralegal.

DYAN MEDEIROS '96 has recently been named the winner of the HSBA's Ki'e Ki'e Award for outstanding provision of pro bono legal services. DYAN is currently with the family law firm of Stirling and Kleintop and began her volunteer work while a student of Dean LAURIE TOCHIKI'S Family Law Clinic.

HELEN ZELDES '00, currently clerking for Judge Dan Foley, Hawai`i Intermediate Court of Appeals, just accepted a position with the San Diego office of the renowned law firm of Milberg & Weiss, a nationwide plaintiffs' firm specializing in human rights (such as the GAP sweatshop case), mass tort litigation (including tobacco cases), consumer and insurance fraud. She will be joining their Consumer Fraud and Insurance Department in October.