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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

CAMPUS SECURITY: reminder that everyone assumes responsibility for their own safety and the safety of others by taking precautions. Emergency Call Boxes are located all over campus and connect the caller directly to Campus Security dispatcher 24 hours a day. Box closest to law school is located in Zone 17 parking lot adjacent to the ewa entrance to the school. Just pick-up the handset. From a telephone dial UHM campus security at 956-6911. The university has policies on illegal drug and alcohol use, weapons, and sex offenses. See www.hawaii.edu/security or contact Dean Lee or Dean Tochiki for more information.

Our ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM recent achievements are the subject of a postcard mailing to thousands of attorneys and environmental law professors across the country. Our nationally ranked ELProgram, the outstanding core environmental faculty (JON VAN DYKE, DAVID CALLIES, and Co-Directors CASEY JARMAN and DENISE ANTOLINI), a new 3 year grant, our environmental moot court successes and the many distinguished visitors, including this year STEVE ROADY, leading national ocean law expert, are covered.

“UH Law” polo shirts in black, white or green, and in various mens’ and womens’ sizes are for sale by the Student Bar Association. Contact Della at daubelatti@hawaii.rr.com.

ADDISON BOWMAN, Prof. Emeritus, just published the 2002 Supplement to Hawaii Rules of Evidence Manual (1998). In September, he addressed the Hilo bar on recent developments in evidence law. Currently PROF. BOWMAN serves as Reporter to Hawaii Supreme Court Committee on the Rules of Evidence, and as
Hawaii Supreme Court appellate mediator.

ALISON CONNER and CALVIN PANG spoke to 15 new and returning adjuncts on substantive teaching issues and other common concerns at the second Adjunct Downtown Lunch Program on October 25 at the offices of Ashford and Wriston.

KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI has served as reporter to the American Bar Association's Select Advisory Committee on Business Reorganization (SABRE) since April 2000. SABRE's First Report, SABRE I, which PROF. GEBBIA-PINETTI authored, was published in the November 2001 Business Lawyer. The Second Report, SABRE II, which she has also authored, has been approved by SABRE and is slated to go before the ABA House of Delegates for approval in February. It is expected to be published in the May 2003 issue of The Business Lawyer. PROF. GEBBIA-PINETTI is now drafting legislation and rule changes to present to Congress to implement the SABRE I and II proposals, which recommend reforms to the nation's business reorganization laws.

MARK LEVIN, in Japan for the year, took his students on a field trip to Kobe District Court, followed by a panel session with the President and Vice Presidents of the Hyogo Prefectural Bar Association. At Kobe District Court, the students watched two sentencings and 45 minutes of a criminal trial, and had a private Q&A session with the presiding judge. PROF. LEVIN reports that his language interpretation skills were put to the task; especially during the bar association panel discussion on judicial reform in Japan.

RICHARD MILLER, Prof. Emeritus, will serve as a moderator for a panel discussing "Campaigns: Where to Draw the Line." Panelists include David Shapiro of the Honolulu Advertiser, Chad Blair of Honolulu Weekly and HPU, Bob Watada, Executive Director of the Campaign Spending Commission, and Jacqueline Parnell, League of Women Voters Vice President. The panel will be held at the Richards St. YWCA, Room 130, on Wed, Oct. 30 from 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM.

RANDY ROTH will speak at the Minnesota Tax Conference on Asset Protection Planning and Advance Estate Planning Strategies; the Kansas Tax Conference on Recent Developments; a training conference in St. Louis on Use of Family Limited Partnerships and Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts; and in San Francisco on Lessons Learned from the Bishop Estate and Hershey Trust Controversies during the second week of November.

FILIPINO LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION members were at the new Filipino Community Center to meet visiting President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The Philippine Inquirer mentioned FLSA in an article.

ROSA FLORES 3L will read her own work at the Hybolics 3 book launch on November 14 at the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu. GROWING UP LOCAL FILIPINO & ODDAH READER explores the nature of local Filipino cultural identity.

RAFAEL DEL CASTILLO ’97 and DR. ARLENE JOUXSON-MEYERS ‘98 have formed a law firm in Wahiawa specializing in health care law, representing patients in coverage matters, and physicians and other providers in disputes with health insurers and health care entities.

CAL ’02 and LAURA ’02 CHIPCHASE are expecting their first baby in May 2003!

MAILE SHIMABUKURO ’00 appeared on the front page of Pacific Business News, Oct. 11 edition. Short on money for advertising, Maile is pictured in her car with a sign on top announcing her candidacy for a seat in the State House for the Makaha-Waianae district.

MAILE SHIMABUKURO ’00 and SCOTT NISHIMOTO ’02, candidate for the House from the Kaimuki, Waikiki district, are both profiled and photographed in a Honolulu Weekly Oct. 23 article about a few of the young pols in the coming elections.