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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

PAULINE A. SCHNEIDER - Team Chair

Ms. Schneider is a partner in the law firm Hunton & Williams, Washington D.C practicing in corporate finance and technology. She is a graduate of Yale Law School with a Masters of Urban Studies from Howard and a B.A. from Glassboro State College. Ms. Schneider is a past president of the District of Columbia Bar and a member of the ABA House of Delegates. She sits on numerous boards and has received awards and professional recognition from among others, the National Association of Women Lawyers, the ABA Commission on Women, and Trinity College’s “Woman of Genius Award.” Ms. Schneider is an experienced site visitor and will focus on our Self Study during this visit.

DEAN DONALD J. DUNN

Dean Dunn is currently at Western New England College of Law where he serves as Associate Dean for Library and Information Resources and previously served as Dean for five years. He has just been named the new dean at the University of La Verne College of Law in Ontario, California, starting June 1. Dean Dunn graduated from Western New England and has both a Master of Library Science and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has served on more than 40 ABA site evaluation teams and was part of the ABA team that visited our law school in 1989. His focus will be on information services and facilities during this visit.

PROF. MICHAEL A. OLIVAS

Prof. Olivas holds the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston where he is the Director of the Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Student Development. Prof. Olivas holds a BA from Pontifical College, an MA and PhD from Ohio State and a JD from Georgetown. He is the author of the leading casebook on higher education law and also teaches immigration law. He and Prof. Hazel Beh have been acquainted through their mutual interest in higher education law. While here, Prof. Olivas will focus on our program of legal education.

PROF. JESSE A. GOLDNER

Prof. Goldner is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Health Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. He also holds secondary appointments as Prof. of Law in Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and as Professor of Health Administration at the School of Public Health. He received his BA and MA from Columbia University and his law degree from Harvard. One of Prof. Goldner’s former students is Robert Chong, the Chair of our Board of Bar Examiners. He is also an old friend with Judge Marie Milks. His focus here will be professional skills, clinical and study outside of the classroom.

MR. STEVEN W. HORTON

Mr. Horton is the Chief Counsel of The Boeing Company where he oversees the environmental law, labor and employment law, and general litigation practice groups for Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems. Mr. Horton served 28 years in the U.S. Navy and Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corp achieving the rank of rear admiral. His last assignment was as the Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy (Civil Law). He also served as the principal legal advisor to the U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii from 1996-99. Mr. Horton is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a JD from University of Florida and LLM from George Washington University. Mr. Horton will be writing on the student section of the ABA report.

DR. JAMES S. NETHERTON

Dr. Netherton is the president of Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee, a small Christian liberal arts college located in the Appalachian region. Dr. Netherton received a BS in math from the University of Mississippi and PhD in math from the University of Virginia. He has been a Provost at Samford University and has held similar positions at Baylor University and Armstrong Atlantic State University. He is very experienced in the regional accreditation process. While here, he will focus on law school administration, law school finances and university support.

ASSOCIATE DEAN ROBERT DINERSTEIN

Dean Dinerstein has been Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at American University Washington College of Law since 1997. He received his BA from Cornell and his law degree from Yale. He was a trial attorney with the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division before entering teaching. Prof. Dinerstein specializes in the areas of civil rights, clinical education, lawyering skills and lawyering process, and mental disability law. He currently teaches the criminal justice clinic and disability and the law in addition to his administrative duties. Prof. Dinerstein is the Association of American Law School’s reporter on this visit as well as a member of the ABA site team. He will focus on faculty issues.