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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

The four dean candidates visited the law school individually during the past two weeks for interviews and meetings. Supreme Court Justice Steven Levinson introduced candidates Prof. Sylvia Law and Prof. Avi Soifer and Supreme Court Justice Paula Nakayama introduced candidates Prof. John Gotanda and Prof. Allen Easley at their respect talks. Each candidate spoke on “The Future of American Legal Education and its Implications for Hawaii.” Mahalo to the Hawaii State Bar Association and WSRSL Student Bar Association for hosting the four receptions. Candidates also attended brown bag lunches with students and individual and group meetings with faculty, staff, the Friends’ Board, Chancellor Englert, UH Faculty Senate, Deans and many others.

The law school table at UH Day at the State Capitol on Tuesday, February 3, was staffed by DEVELOPMENT OFFICER DOUG JANES, PR SPECIALIST DESIREE HIKIDA MOKUOHAI ’02, and ASSOCIATE DEAN CAROL MON LEE. Stopping by our table was graduate LT. Governor JAMES “DUKE” AIONA ’81. Our law school catalog was very popular among legislative aides interested in attending law school.

Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head of School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, visited the law school last week.

DEAN LARRY FOSTER ’80 will attend the Inter-Pacific Bar Association Annual Meeting in New Delhi this week. He will also travel to Guangzhou and Hong Kong to visit our alumni, meet with Chinese lawyers to discuss training programs and attend a meeting with the Guandong Academy of Social Sciences and UH Medical School to discuss a US National Institutes of Health joint program grant proposal.

Our new LLM program under program director PROF.ALISON CONNER has just admitted its first five students. Students will commence study this August.

WSRSL’s 30th Anniversary will be celebrated this year with a special dinner on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003. Location to be announced. The honorary co-chairs of this special event will be CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON, BEADIE KANEHELE DAWSON ’81 and law school friend retired international lawyer FRANK BOAS. We also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Class of 1993 and the 20th anniversary of the Class of 1983. More news to follow but be sure to calendar the date!

MARK LEVIN was one of 5 panelists and only foreigner at an elite national symposium on legal education reform, hosted by Kyoto University before an audience of representatives from over 65 Japanese law faculties, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Prosecutor's office, and numerous bar association leaders. PROF. LEVIN’S presentation was in Japanese.

CASEY JARMAN has been awarded the Lucy Pence Fund for Faculty Excellence to work on a book on administrative law practice in Hawaii.

DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES is the recipient of the Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel award to research and write technical data and computer software in government contracting.

MARK LEVIN is the recipient of an award from the Fund for Academic Excellence to participate as a faculty member of a multi-national workshop on tobacco control capacity building this summer in Finland.

JON VAN DYKE’S essay entitled "Reparations for the Descendants of American Slaves Under International Law" is featured in the book recently published by Harper-Collins entitled SHOULD AMERICA PAY? SLAVERY AND THE RAGING DEBATE ON REPARATIONS (Raymond A. Winbush ed. 2003). PROF. VAN DYKE will be conducting interviews in Seoul on South Korea's maritime boundaries on February 17 and then will participate in a conference on THE REGIME OF THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE: ISSUES AND RESPONSES in Tokyo February 19 and 20, co-sponsored by The Ship and Ocean Foundation and The East-West Center. On February 21 and 22, he will be participating at a meeting of the Law of the Sea Institute (now based at the University of California at Berkeley) on MULTILATERALISM AND INTERNATIONAL OCEAN-RESOURCES LAW. Then, on February 24-27, he will participate in a meeting to develop a liability regime to govern the sea shipments of ultra hazardous radioactive materials, which will be held in Nadi, Fiji.

Congratulations to the new Board of Officers for the William S. Richardson Inn of Phi Delta Phi whose new term will officially begin at the end of this semester.

DOUG CROSIER ‘78 is receiving a lot of press as the first WSRSL graduate to head the Hawaii State Bar Association. The 2/9/03 issue of the Sunday Honolulu Star Bulletin features an interview with him “New bar president takes professionalism seriously.”

FAYE KURREN ’79, president of Tesoro Corp., sits on the State House Select Committee on War Preparedness made up of government, business, and military leaders and recently testified on petroleum supply.