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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

We welcome three dean candidates to the law school this week. Prof. Sylvia Law from NYU, Prof. Avi Soifer from Boston College and Prof. John Gotanda from Villanova will be here two days each to meet with members of the law school, university and community. Please take time to attend their talks and receptions on Jan. 28, Jan. 30 and Jan. 31.

Aloha to JAYNE BARNARD, this year’s Fujiyama Distinguished Professor of Law. PROF. BARNARD, who holds the James Goold Cutler Chair at William and Mary, is teaching Corporations and Transnational Litigation this semester.

We welcome a new visiting scholar, Mr. Niisato Kyotaka, who is with the law firm Matsuo & Kosugi. He is a graduate of the Univ. of Tokyo and will be here for two months observing our legal system and school.

We mourn the loss of two members of our law school community.

LILLIAN NAKAMURA, who joined the Law School in November 1997 as the Law Library Acquisitions Clerk and retired in September, passed away on January 12, 2003 at St. Francis Hospice-West after a lengthy illness.

WALTER CHUCK, well-known and highly respected local attorney and generous friend to the law school, also passed away recently.

ALISON CONNER has just returned from Taiwan as a member of a scholars’ delegation to meet with government officials, scholars and other policymakers. PROF. CONNER has also been invited to contribute articles on Chinese legal history to the Encyclopedia of Legal History to be published by Oxford University Press.

DEAN LARRY FOSTER was among the volunteers who participated in Saturday January 25’s 2003 Campus Care Day in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

HAZEL BEH recently discovered her article, Sex, Sexual Pleasure, and
Reproduction: Health Insurers Don't Want Us to Do Those Nasty Things, 13 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal 119-176 (1998), was cited by a federal administrative law judge to justify paying the expense for Viagra to an injured worker -- noting that treatment for sexual conditions is not a lifestyle choice but a medical necessity issue.

DAVID CALLIES’ essay/description of zoning and related land use controls is contained in the Oxford University Press’s 2002 edition of The Oxford Companion to American Law. PROF.CALLIES also contributed an analysis of the recent US Supreme Court decision in Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. TRPA to Roberts (ed.) Taking Sides on Takings (2002). His daughter Sarah has a role in a CBS TV new legal drama, Queen Supreme, on Friday evenings @ 9pm as Kate, a legal secretary.

MARK LEVIN traveled from Kobe to Tokyo in December for meetings with WSRSL friends and alumni including Kaoru Kashiwagi (Kashiwagi Law Firm), Tasuku Matsuo (Matsuo and Kosugi Law

Firm), KESH SATO’97 and YOKO SATO '98, STEVE HOWARD '98, and former visiting practioners TERUO SAITO (Dorsey and Whitney) and KAZUYA SAWADA (Baba and Sawada Law Firm). While in Tokyo, PROF. LEVIN also spoke to a Law and Society class at the University of Tokyo law faculty and attended a trial session at Tokyo District Court where PROF. LEVIN’s research on tobacco policy in Japan was presented as evidence in a case brought by former smokers against Japan Tobacco and the government of Japan.

RANDY ROTH was the first person profiled in a 10 part series in the Honolulu Star Bulletin entitled “10 to watch in 2003” as those who may have a big impact on Hawaii this year.

ERIN ATKINSON 2L and JESSE SCHIEL 3L have been named recipients of the 2003 Environmental Law Program's Pohaku Fund Travel Scholarship for the 33d Annual ALI-ABA Environmental Law Conference in Washington D.C. Feb. 12-14, 2003.

TRICIA NAKAMATSU 2L was recently crowned the 2003 Narcissus 2nd Princess.

ARLEEN JOUXSON-MEYERS’98, both a pediatrician and attorney and founder of the Hawaii Coalition for Health, in 1996 is interviewed in the January 10 issue of Pacific Business News about Hawaii’s major health care issues.

AMY ONO’00, Director of Career Services, organized our 1st Annual Open House. 50 students attended and met with recent law school graduates:
Case Bigelow - Leila Rothwell-Sullivan (2001)
McCorriston - Becky Chestnut (2002)
Chun Kerr Dodd - Georgina Kwan (2002)
Cades Schutte - Sheree Nitta (2002)
Legal Aid - Steve Duck (2002)
Goodsill - Victoria Sakamaki (2002)
Torkildson - Sheri Ann Lau (2001)
Stubenberg & Durrett - Jon Zahaby (2001)
Alston Hunt - Shannon Sheldon (V - 2000)
Damon Key - Sat Khalsa (2001)

JON ZAHABY ‘01 was married to Jeanne on December 28, 2002.

NIKKI SENTER ’01 and her husband are the proud parents of a new baby girl named Sydney Ayako Senter born on October 9, 2002.

DOUG CROSIER’78 is the subject of a cover story in Hawaii Bar Journal’s January issue. As the first UH law school graduate to serve as HSBA president, he notes how grateful he is to our school and the great professors he had.

BYRON SHIBATA’00’s article “Land-Use Law in the United States and Japan: A Fundamental Overview and Comparative Analysis” was just published in Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 10.2002.