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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

C.J. WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON has just been named the recipient of the 2003 Founders Lifetime Achievement Award by the UH Alumni Association as a legendary jurist and champion of public interest. The dinner to honor him and other distinguished alumni is May 20, 2003 at the Sheraton Waikiki. For more info, contact DOUG JANES (956-6545, Douglas.janes@uhf.hawaii.edu)

The ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROGRAM published the third paper in its He Mau Mo`olelo Kanawai O Ka `Aina student paper series, "The Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean: Can Tuna Promote Development of Pacific Island Nations" by EMILY E. LAROCQUE ’02. The paper can soon be accessed via the ELP website, www.hawaii.edu/elp. PROFS. CASEY JARMAN, DENISE ANTOLINI and JON VAN DYKE and ELP associates JILL RAZNOV 3L and DAWN NEKOBA 3L produced this issue.

The Collection Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association
has just established a $1,000 cash award for a second-year student who has demonstrated excellence in writing on issues concerning state and federal collection law, including foreclosure and receivership issues and related issues such as Article 9, UCC; Truth in Lending; Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act; state debt collection laws and collection statutes such as attachment, execution and garnishment; secured and unsecured lending; security instruments; and related collection law matters.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
April 23 – National Administrative Professionals Day lunch in the Faculty Lounge to honor our dedicated staff.
April 24 – End of Year Celebration to honor our student competitions’ teams, name the recipient of the Edmunds Award for Civility and Vigorous Advocacy, and honor heroic acts and other inspirational deeds.
April 24 – New Admittees Reception – law school admittees meet our faculty and students.
April 29 – 3rd Friends of the Environmental Law Program Reception – everyone invited. Contact DAWN NEKOBA malia999@aol.com
April 30 – Appellate Advocacy Awards ceremony – announcement of Best Oralists and Best Briefs Awards followed by a reception.
May 1 – Class of 2003 Graduation Dinner at Treetops– sponsored by WSRSL Alumni Association and the Law School.

DAVID CALLIES will make a presentation on Regulatory Theory and Practice at the 13th Annual Conference on Economic Issues sponsored by the Hawaii Economic Association, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Thursday, April 17th. Among the other panelists is Karl Kim, Interim Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

ALISON CONNER's recent article on "The Comparative Law School of China" has been chosen for translation into Chinese and will be included in a book on Chinese law to be published by Tsinghua University Press in Beijing this summer. This is the third of her articles on Chinese legal history to be translated and published in China.

KAREN GEBBIA-PINETTI and husband RANDY PINETTI are the proud parents of twins Luca Kalama Gebbia Pinetti born 4-11-03 at 5:41pm (4lbs 11 and 1/2 ounces and 16 1/2 inches) and baby sister Rafaella Alana Gebbia Pinetti born 4-11-03 at 5:42pm (6lbs 1 and 1/2 ounces and 19 inches). Luca means "bringer of light" and Kalama means "torch that lights the way". Rafaella means "healed by God" and Alana means "beautiful peaceful gift or offering”. The twins join big brother Benjamin. PROF. GEBBIA-PINETTI and family will remain in San Francisco through Spring 2004. Congratulations!

MARK LEVIN will remain in Kobe, Japan through next fall as the faculty resident director of the UH Year in Japan Study Abroad Program. He has been recruited for two projects on tobacco control issues -- teaching in an international workshop in Helsinki next summer in association with the 12th World Conference on Tobacco or Health and writing a chapter on tobacco control policy in Japan in a book to be published by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

JON VAN DYKE’S article entitled "The North/South Korea Boundary Dispute in the Yellow (West) Sea" by Jon M. Van Dyke, Mark J. Valencia, and Jenny Miller Garmendia has just been published in 27 Marine Policy 143-58 (March 2003).

SABRINA CLARK 1L has been named the recipient of the Davidson Marine Policy Fellowship, which honors Sea Grant Director Jack R. Davidson. She will work full-time this summer and then take a leave of absence in the spring to work with House Representative Hermina Morita full-time during the legislative session.

TRENT KAKUDA 1L has been named to the UH Board of Regents by Gov. Linda Lingle.