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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

PROF. AVIAM SOIFER was appointed to become the new law school dean by the UH Board of Regents on Friday. DEAN SOIFER will replace DEAN LARRY FOSTER who will return to the faculty after 17 years in law school administration. DEAN SOIFER is a professor and former dean of Boston College Law School and a former Visiting Scholar here at the law school in 1999-2000. He has a national and international reputation as a scholar as well as an administrator with strong fundraising skills. Mahalo to BEADIE KANAHELE DAWSON’81, chair and the other members of the Dean’s Search Committee, CHANCELLOR PETER ENGLERT, JOANNE CLARK and the BOARD OF REGENTS for their hard work and fine selection. Dean Soifer is expected to be here by the Fall semester. Welcome!

NATIVE AMERICAN MOOT COURT TEAM returned from the national competition at Columbia University. UH went up against teams from 40 other schools. Though neither of the two teams made it into the top ten, they were congratulated by the judges for the high quality of their oral arguments and written submissions. LEHINAHINA SULLIVAN 3L received near perfect scores during the preliminary rounds. LEHINAHINA and KINNY MANIBUSAN 3L faced Arizona State University and the University of Texas and MARIE NELSON 2L and SHANNON ALIVADO 2L squared off against another ASU team and the University of Iowa. KIM CHANBONPIN 3L served as alternate. AMY ONO ’00 and PROF. WILLIAMSON CHANG were team advisors.

CLIENT COUNSELING TEAM consisting of BRENDAN BAILEY 3L, VAN LUONG 3L, RHONDA CHING 2L AND MAX HANNEMANN 3l finished fourth in a field of eleven regional champions during Saturday's national tournament at Stetson University Law School in Florida. This is Hawaii's best national ranking in several years. Sponsored by the American Bar Association, this year's competition began with a roster of 117 teams. PROF. CALVIN PANG, ASS’T DEAN LAURIE TOCHIKI and ANGELA LOVITT’97 were team coaches.

FRANK BOAS AWARD. DEAN FOSTER announced the creation of this new award for the best Second Year Seminar paper written on a Pacific Asian topic. The $500.00 award is named after retired international business lawyer and friend to the law school, Mr. Frank Boas. The award winning paper will also be published in the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal.

JAPANESE LAW FACULTY VISITORS. This month several members from Nihon, Shinshu, Waseda, Kansai, Kumamoto, and Meijo law faculties are here to visit our school. Two other law faculties (in Kyushu and Tokyo) are also interested in establishing closer relationships. In Spring 2004 Japan will open new law schools which will be graduate level, three-year programs similar to that used in the US. For further information, please contact Dean Foster.

APIL Public Interest Grant. The 2003 application packets are available outside of PROF. CALVIN PANG’S office. The grant amount this summer is $3000 for a minimum 300 hours of work. The deadline for submitting an application is Friday, April 11, 2003 at 4:30 p.m.

HAZEL BEH chairs the AALS Contracts Section this year and has assembled a stellar panel for the 2004 AALS Meeting January 2-6 in Atlanta. The program is entitled “Beyond the Holding: Enriching the Contracts Course” with Moderator, Robert Hillman (Cornell) Race/Poverty, Lisa Crooms (Howard, currently, Fulbright at Norman Manley Law School, Kingston, Jamaica) Legal History, Robert Gordon (Yale) Economics, Russell Korobkin (UCLA) Gender, Deborah Post (Touro, currently Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford)

ALISON CONNER was the speaker at the March 13th China Seminar where she gave an update on economic and political developments in Hong Kong.

FORMER VISITING PROFESSOR SANG-HYUN SONG of Seoul National University has been elected a judge of the International Criminal Court at the Hague. The ICC tries criminals and war crimes with the goal of creating a more peaceful world through law, protection of human rights and humanitarianism. Prof. Song, who taught Korean Law here in 2001, is currently visiting at Harvard.

The student conceived and organized program “A TRIBUTE TO PATSY MINK: Peace, Civil Liberties, and Justice after September 11” held on March 13 was a great success with a standing room only crowd. TANIA CRUZ 2L, TANIA SIMYAR 2L and DELLA AU BELATTI 3L coordinated the program that included speaker Prof. John Trasvina from Stanford, and guests John and Gwendolyn Mink as well as many distinguished members from the legal, political and UH community. The FIRST ANNUAL PATSY MINK LEGISLATIVE FELLOWSHIP to work for Rep. Ed Case in Washington D.C. was conceived by ANNIE LEE 3L and based on a similar award she received as an undergraduate. It was awarded to VAN LUONG 3L. PROF.ERIC YAMAMOTO participated in the program. Channel 2 (KHON) and Channel 4 KITV had stories on the evening news. SHAWN CHING 3L specially produced the extensive story on KITV. Many sponsors also contributed to the event.

BEADIE DAWSON ’81 is the recipient of Pacific Business News’ newest award The Gladys Kamakakuokalani ‘Ainoa Brandt Kupuna Award for her outstanding contributions in many areas including as a community leader, Hawaiian activist, business executive and attorney. See the March 7 issue of PBN for a complete story and attend upcoming Women Who Mean Business event on May 8. Contact Stacie at 955-8100.

CORRECTION: The last issue incorrectly identified one author. Kent Anderson authored “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 By David T. Johnson.” Visit the Asian- Pacific Law & Policy Journal at www.hawaii.edu/aplpj