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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

US News and World Report has published it’s latest rankings of America’s best graduate schools. The law school was ranked 86th among the 177 law schools surveyed. We also placed well in terms of the new diversity index.

Check out News@UH link and the article on our new Dean AVI SOIFER and the school:
http://www.hawaii.edu/ur/newslinks/pbn/pb030331.htm

GRADUATION SPEAKER. Congressman Ed Case has accepted the 3L class’s invitation to speak at the law school graduation on May 19 at Andrews Amphitheatre.

HISAKO MISAWA will be visiting the law school in May for a month to research the divorce mediation system concerning child custody in Hawaii. Ms. Misawa is currently at the Ochanomizu University Graduate School in Tokyo working on her thesis.

DENISE ANTOLINI will co-chair a major conference on the Endangered Species Act on May 8-9 in Honolulu. The conference features two major keynote speakers (including Professor Patrick Parenteau, who will visit the Law School on May 7, and Professor David Sunding, UC Berkeley) and two days of diverse panels with Hawaii landowners, governmental, environmental, and cultural experts on endangered species. Interested students should contact PROF. ANTOLINI. Other speakers include ADJUNCT PROF. PAT HANIFIN and HON. BLAKE OSHIRO ’96.

DAVID CALLIES and JULIE TAPPENDORF ’97 presented a program on land development agreements and annexation agreements at the annual conference of the American Planning Association in Denver on April 2nd. PROF. CALLIES also presented a paper on public use in condemnation for urban redevelopment for the Planning and Law Division session on April 1st at the same conference.

ALISON CONNER’S "How I Got the Story (and Why It Took So Long): Legal History Research in China" appears in 2 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 193.

DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES is the subject of a long article and photo in the current issue of News@UH. “Conway-Jones is a Major Lawyer in More Ways than One” covers her love of teaching as well as her military background as a member of the JAG Corps officer.
http://www.hawaii.edu/ur/newsatuh/jones.htm
RANDY ROTH, currently serving as Senior Advisor to Governor Linda Lingle, is the subject of an interview in the April issue of Honolulu Magazine. PROF. ROTH’s commentary “New cost information shows need for changes in Act 221” appeared in the Wed. April 2, 2003 Honolulu Star Bulletin under “Another Viewpoint.”

The Hawaiian Style 2L/3L Party, sponsored by the Student Bar Association, packed about 200 into the courtyard Friday night, April 4. KRISTINA TOSHIKIYO 3L and KELLIE PENDRAS 3L beat MARCUS LANDSBURG 2L in the costume contest. MILIKAA ORDENSTEIN 1L and ISI MATAELE 1L vs KELLY IKEDA 2L and FRANCIS ALCAIN 2L vs SARAH KALAS 3L and DUKE OISHI 3L for the inter-class Tahitian-style bootie shaking contest. It was almost too close to call but SARAH and DUKE won. MALIA LEE 2L and CHENISE KANEMOTO 2L were the chief party planners along with help from the SBA and many other students.

VANESSA JANN-JORDAN ‘02 was married on January 4, 2003 to Max Fowler in Waimanalo.

LISE VAUGHAN-SEKONA ’02 and husband Rodney welcomed the arrival of Meleana Sekona on Friday, March 28, 2003 at 6:20 am. She was a healthy 8 lbs. 14 oz.