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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

ABA SITE VISIT. Our site visit concluded on Wednesday, March 5. A final report will not be issued for several months but we have preliminary indication that everything went well. We thank everyone who made the process go as smoothly as possible. MAHALO!

APLPJ. The Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal and editor –in-chief MATTHEW MONEYHON 3L have announced the online publication of Volume IV, Issue 1. Among the articles and comments are “The Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean: Can Tuna Promote Development of Pacific Island Nations? “ by EMILY E. LAROCQUE ’02 and “Guam's Future Political Status: An Argument for Free Association with U.S. Citizenship” by HANNAH M.T. GUTIERREZ 3L. A Review Essay entitled “The Japanese Way of Justice: An Up-close Look at Japan's Jack McCoy - A Review of THE JAPANESE WAY OF JUSTICE: PROSECUTING CRIME IN JAPAN” was written by Visiting Professor DAVID T. JOHNSON and Kent Anderson. The new improved web design by production editor JEFF GOLDMAN 3L makes the site more user-friendly. Visit the Asian- Pacific Law & Policy Journal at www.hawaii.edu/aplpj.

JESSUP. Congratulations to our Jessup International Moot Court Team, which returned from the regionals at UC Davis, last weekend. The team ranked third in the Semi-Finals, took 2nd place for our memorials (briefs), and KIM CHANBONPIN3L ranked as the 7th Best Oralist out of 52 participants! Other team members are KANOE KANE 3L, ANNIE LEE 3L, ROSA FLORES 3L and MARION REYES-BURKE 2L and coach is PROF. JON VAN DYKE.

VISITING SCHOLAR PROF. MASAKI IGAWA from Meijo University faculty of law is here this week to prepare for his two-year visit starting in August 2003. PROF. IGAWA works closely with regular VISITING PROF. TSUYOSHI KOTAKA.

ADMISSIONS. Over 900 applications for admission to our fall 2003 entering class have been received so far. This is a record-breaking number, the largest number of applicants ever received by our law school! The Admissions Committee will now start its hard work.

2003 International Graduate Student Conference was co-sponsored by the law school. The East-West Center and the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies put on the event held in February.

THE FIRST ANNUAL PATSY MINK LEGISLATIVE FELLOWSHIP will be awarded to a law student during a tribute to the Rep. Mink at a symposium on March 13 at the law school featuring Prof. John Trasvina from Stanford. The student selected for the first $3,000 fellowship will work for US Congressman Ed Case. Contact TANIA CRUZ 2L, 384-7851.

DENISE ANTOLINI is being honored on Friday with Hawaii Women Lawyers’ Distinguished Community Service Award at its annual awards ceremony at the Plaza Club.

JOHN BARKAI co-chairs the HSBA's ADR Section along CHUCK CRUMPTON’78 and Adjunct Professor TRACEY WILTGEN’88 who teaches Mediation Clinic and is the Executive Director of the Mediation Center of the Pacific.

DAVID CALLIES and J. DAVID BREEMER ’01 have written an article entitled “Selected Legal and Policy Trends in Takings Law: Background Principles, Custom and Public Trust "Exceptions" and the (Mis)use of Investment-Backed Expectations,” that was published last month in 36 Valparaiso Univ. L. Rev. 339 (2002)

ALISON CONNER’S article, "The Comparative Law School of China," appears in a new volume on Chinese law, Understanding China's Legal System, which has just been published by NYU Press.

RANDY ROTH will speak at Lambda Alpha, the honorary land economics society, on Thursday, March 27, on "Update on Governor Lingle's New Beginning Agenda."

New officers of the Environmental Law Society:

RANDY GEUY’01 and wife Tracie have a new son, Matthew Byron Geuy, born on 03-03-03. RANDY is an associate with the law firm of Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams LLP, in Houston, Texas, an admiralty and transportation litigation firm.