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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

The Environmental Law Program-Environmental Law Society Hawaii Environmental Law Careers Directory is available in PDF on the ELP web site: www.hawaii.edu/elp PROF. DENISE ANTOLINI, VISITING PROF. STEVE ROADY and JONATHAN HITESMAN ’97 will be guest speakers on KIFO/KIPO on Tuesday Nov. 26, 5 - 6 p.m. to discuss environmental law and the law school’s Environmental Law Program.

DENISE ANTOLINI will speak on the special injury rule in public nuisance cases at an Albany Law School conference "Who Can Sue: Legal Challenges to Standing in Environmental and Land Use Disputes" on Dec. 5. The next day, also in Albany, Professor Antolini will speak at an invitation-only luncheon on Hawai`i's Public Trust Doctrine and the water rights issues addressed in the Waiahole litigation.

HAZEL BEH’s article “Student versus University: The University’s Implied Obligation of Good Faith and Fair Dealing,” 59, Md L.Rev. 183, was cited at length in the dissent of a recent Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal of Louisiana case, Miller III v. Loyola University of New Orleans.

RON BROWN recently presented a paper on "Legal Aspects of China's Cross-Border Labor Trafficking" in the Globalization Conference on Human Trafficking held in Honolulu. PROF. BROWN also has been selected as a Task Leader On Industrial Relations for developing labor laws and practices in China under a four year, multi-million dollar Congressionally funded project under the U.S. Dept. of Labor in cooperation with the Chinese Government.

DAVID CALLIES and former Visitor DAN TARLOCK’s “Annual Survey of Land Use Law Literature” is covered in Zoning and Planning Law Report, Vol. 25. No. 9, Oct. 2002.

CHRIS IIJIMA’s talk "Four Distinctions and a Pet Peeve," originally given to beginning law teachers, is printed as an article in The Law Teacher, Fall 2002 issue. PROF. IIJIMA also had an op-ed piece in the "No War" issue of The Honolulu Weekly.

JIM PIETSCH is the featured speaker at the Hawai`i State Judiciary’s free public informational session, “Elder Law Hawai`i Update” on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2002, in the Supreme Court Courtroom.

RANDY ROTH will be “loaned” to Governor-elect Linda Lingle during 2003 to act as her chief policy advisor. The law school will have its fair representation in the Executive Branch. Joining Lt. Gov. Elect JAMES “DUKE” AIONA ’81 will be ROBERT PIPER '96, a former SBA President during the memorable closure crisis.

LAURIE TOCHIKI’s article entitled “Focus on Diversity...Small Steps to Competence and Understanding” is in the November 2002 edition of the National Association of Law Placement Professional's Bulletin. DEAN TOCHIKI sits on the NALP’s Employment Diversity Committee.

ROSEMARY FAZIO ’78 was elected to the Judicial Selection Commission. ROSEMARY is the first woman lawyer ever elected to the Commission.

Congratulations to those who recently took and passed the July bar exam in other jurisdictions.

IAN is at NYU pursuing his LL.M. and was also named a graduate editor of the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.

STEPHEN HOWARD ’98 and wife Kayo Iwami became the parents of baby girl Salia Kanile`a Howard-Iwami, on October 17, 2002 in Tokyo. STEVE is still at Matsuo & Kosugi in Tokyo doing mainly corporate transactions.

ANNE LOPEZ '00 is now in doing litigation at Kobayashi Sugita & Goda.

NORM CHENG '02 has joined Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher. Norm helped out with the Client Counseling Competition try-outs on Saturday.

JIM NICHOLSON ’86 was the subject of an “Old Friends” column, MidWeek, Nov. 13. The former NFL offensive lineman is now a labor arbitrator and chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee.

ELIZABETH ROBINSON is at Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing. Elizabeth spoke to students interested in writing competitions last week.