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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

We hope you had a restful and safe Spring Break.

NEW REGISTRATION SYSTEM. All students will need to login to the new UH registration system for Fall 2003 classes beginning April 28th. Pa’e will no longer exist. In order to access the registration system, you will need a UH user name and password. Your social security number is no longer going to be your identification number. Your user name is your e-mail address, which MUST be a @hawaii.edu email account. Contact Dean Tochiki (lauriet@hawaii.edu, 956-7966) for more information. To obtain a UH email account, go to http://www.hawaii.edu/account Faculty will also need to login to view course information for their classes.

REACH (Resources for Employee Assistance and Counseling Help) services are available to faculty and staff employees who may need short-term professional counseling services to resolve personal problems affecting work performance. This may be particularly helpful now in light of the war and the uncertainty it raises. http://www.hawaii.edu/ohr/docs/benefits.htm Students should contact the Deans for help or a referral.

EDMUNDS AWARD FOR CIVILITY AND VIGOROUS ADVOCACY. Nominations for this award created by prominent local lawyer John Edmunds are now being accepted through noon, April 11. Email Dean Foster at lawrence@hawaii.edu. The award is given to a member of the Jessup, Environmental Law or Native American team whose performance exemplifies the two qualities of civility and vigorous advocacy.

RONALD BROWN has been reelected for a second term as Director of UH’s Center for Chinese Studies.

ALISON CONNER has been invited to join the advisory board of the Chinese Legal Studies Association of North America. The association works to promote knowledge about law in China and to encourage comparative study of Chinese and Western law.

DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES’ article “Mongolia, Law Convergence, and the Third Era of Globalization” has been solicited for publication by the Currents International Trade Law Journal published by South Texas College of Law. This piece represents one of only a few articles published subsequent to Mongolia's shift from a socialist state to a democratic constitutional state.
JIM PIETSCH has been named the recipient of the 2003 Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation Award for Faculty Service to the Community from UH. PROF. PIETSCH is the Director of the UH Elder Law Program serving hundreds of indigent senior citizens annually and also holds a join appointment at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

KIM DAVID CHANBONPIN 3L has been chosen as a LatCrit student scholar. Her paper: "How the Border Crossed Us: Filling the Gap Between Plume v. Seward & Thompson and the Dispossession of Mexican Landowners in California After 1848" will be published in the Cleveland-Marshall Law Journal LatCrit symposium issue. KIM will also attend the 8th annual LatCrit conference in Cleveland this May. LatCrit will pair her up with an academic mentor to work with Kim towards the publication of another scholarly paper. Instead of taking the bar after graduation, KIM will attend the Critical Global Classroom this summer. Co-sponsored with the University of Baltimore School of Law, this year's CGC will be held in Chile and Argentina. The classes will focus on issues of race, ethnicity, and critical jurisprudence from a comparative perspective.

DAVID LUSK 2L has been elected to the Lower Punchbowl Neighborhood Board.

YOUNG LAWYERS GUILD OF ETHICS & MORALITY (YLGEM) is the law school’s newest student organization. MATT KELLY 2L is the organization’s first president.

RIKI MAY AMANO ’79 will be stepping down from the bench. She has served since 1992, first as a District Court judge and since 1993, as a Circuit Court judge for the Third Circuit Court. Judge Amano was the first full-time female judge appointed to the Big Island.

CARLITO CALIBOSO ’91 has just been appointed to chair the Public Utility Commission.

SETH REISS ’80 was a speaker at a UH’s Office of Technology Transfer & Economic Development monthly business seminar last semester. He spoke on The Patent Process and the Proper Role of Provisional Patent Applications in that Process.

BYRON SHIBATA ’00 wrote an article on administrative procedures in land development while he was teaching in Japan. The article was recently picked up by UCLA's Pacific Basin Law Review. BYRON is now a JAG officer in Alaska currently going through a 9-week basic military law course.