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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Welcome back to school! We expect a very busy and exciting semester and year. Next week, our top Dean Candidates will be here for interviews. In March, the American Bar Association’s Site Team will conduct its sabbatical site inspection of the school for reaccreditation purposes. In the fall, we plan to enroll our first LL.M. students now that our program has formally been acquiesced by the American Bar Association. We also celebrate the 30th anniversary of the law school this year and plan a big event early next fall as we bid aloha to Dean Foster and welcome our new Dean.

DEAN LARRY FOSTER received the Mediation Center of the Pacific Improved Justice Award in December for encouraging the teaching of mediation, negotiation and ADR across the law school curriculum.

Over winter break, DEAN FOSTER led a group of volunteers on a law school clean-up project, including power washing the courtyard and painting Room 201. JIM WILLISTON ‘78, CALVIN YOUNG ’82 and wife Leslie, JOHN EGAN ’00, HAUNANI BURNS ’80, ROBYN AU ’80, GREG LUI-KWAN ’82, STU KANEKO ’77, ELBRIDGE SMITH ’77, LAURIE TOCHIKI ’80, PROF. JOHN BARKAI, PROF. VIRGINIA HENCH, DELLA AU-BELLATTI 3L, BARBARA WONG 3L, and RINA CHUNG 3L, a big mahalo!

DENISE ANTOLINI is named as this year’s recipient of Hawai’i Women Lawyer’s Distinguished Community Service Award. She will be honored in March. PROF. ANTOLINI’s request was granted for $4,800.00 from UH’s Educational Improvement Fund to help modernize our Moot Court Room.

JOHN BARKAI spoke on Innovations in ADR Pedagogy at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting in Washington D.C. earlier this month.

RONALD BROWN lead a UH delegation on a trip to China earlier this month coordinated by UH’s partner, Peking University (Beida). In addition to discussions with law school officials, the delegation visited Beida’s Microprocessing Center, Center for Economic Studies, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University,College of Medicine, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Film Academy and Yunnan University. For a copy of the report, contact caroll@hawaii.edu.

HAZEL BEH was installed as Chair and moderated the AALS Contracts Section Program, Teaching Contracts Transactionally, on January 5. She will serve in this post for a year.

DAVID CALLIES chaired a panel on regulatory takings after the USSCT Tahoe-Sierra case, at a joint program sponsored by the Section on Real Property and the Section on State and Local Government Law, at AALS. PROF. CALLIES is chair-elect of the State and Local Government Law section.

ALISON CONNER will speak to the UH Law and Society Group on "Training China's First Modern Lawyers: The Role of Soochow University Law School" on Wed. January 22, 2003.

DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES’ article “Remedying Trademark Infringement: The Role of Bad Faith in Awarding an Accounting of Defendant's Profits,” 42 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 863 (2002) was cited by Justice Carl E. Stewart of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in his reported decision in Quick Technologies, Inc. v. Sage Group P.L.C., 2002 WL 31600868 (Dec. 9, 2002).

JUDGE DAVID EZRA celebrates his 25th year as an adjunct this year, where he taught Remedies previously and now teaches Federal Courts.

MARK LEVIN had a major role as the original drafter and one of the lead promoters of the new University policy on No Smoking.

JON VAN DYKE co-wrote an article on the Korean Ocean Border Dispute that was published in the Washington Times earlier this month.

KELLIE PENDRAS 3L has accepted a one-year clerkship with Justice
Beverly Cutler of the Alaska Superior Court (Palmer, Alaska) starting in the fall.

PROF. MARI MATSUDA '80, graduate and former faculty member, and her husband Prof. Charles Lawrence, received national recognition as the co-recipients of the Society of American Law Teachers' 2003 Teaching Award. Both teach at Georgetown University School of Law. A banquet honoring them was held in Washington D.C. earlier this month.

ASSOC. DEAN CAROL MON LEE and PROF. JOHN BARKAI hosted an alumni reception in Washington D.C. while they attended AALS. Visiting Prof. STEVE ROADY and his wife CELIA attended as well as alumns: CHRIS CHOW ’95 - SEC, Office of Public Utility Regulation, CHRIS "CJ" DUNCAN ’00 - private practice, Joan M. Wilson & Assoc. SUE LIN CHONG ’84 - Devillier Communications, senior account supervisor, public relations and marketing, GLADYS QUINTO ’99 - Global Health Council, legislative associate Government relations, MICHAEL KAYE ’85 - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, JULIA “JULES” LATHAM ’00 - Vinson & Elkins, JULIANN TIGERT ’98 - recently moved to DC with her husband and looking for work, DANGKHOA NGUYEN - Office of the Inspector General, Government of the District of Columbia, AMMIE ROSEMAN-ORR ’99 - Dept of Justice (she and Dangkhoa are engaged), REX FUJICHAKU ’98 will be returning to Hawaii Feb. to work at Bronster Crabtree & Hoshibata, QUINN PLANT ’00 - will be going to Beijing soon, JOSEPH RODRIQUEZ ’00 - US Dept of Commerce, Patent & Trademark Office, CYNDI RODRIQUEZ (visitor) - Securities and Exchange Commission, and BILL KALISH ’94 - Sheet Metal Worker's National Pension Fund.

KATHLEEN N. WATANABE ’82 has been appointed by Governor Lingle as Director of the Department of Human Resources Development.