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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Good luck on final exams! Thank you all for being a part of this exciting semester at the law school. We bid a fond mahalo to DEAN LARRY FOSTER. A special edition of Ke Kula Kanawai will be published during the summer with the arrival of DEAN AVI SOIFER.

Class of 2003 Graduation Dinner on May 1 was attended by over 100 students, alumni, faculty and friends. MELODY MCKENZIE ’76, PROF. ERIC YAMAMOTO and JOHN EGAN ’00, alumni assoc pres., spoke. Kudos to DELLA AU BELATTI, SBA PRESIDENT, LIANN EBESUGAWA3L and the 3l class for organizing this first time event.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SOCIETY’s annual Pa'ina will be held May 21. The first annual "Kalo Award for Distinguished Environmental Stewardship" will be given to Isaac Hall from Maui. Keynote speaker will be Dan Davidson from DLNR.

AMY ONO attended the NALP (National Association of Law Placement) annual education conference in Orlando, FL last week. AMY and GRANT HELGESON will be attending the LSAC (Law Students Admissions Council) meeting in Las Vegas later this month.

48 admittees attended our New Admittees Reception. A record 956 applications were reviewed by the hard working Admissions Committee; Chair PROF. JON VAN DYKE, and members PROF. CHRIS IIJIMA, PROF. JOHN BARKAI, LIANN EBESUGAWA 3L, ALISON KUNISHIGE 3L and ASST. DEAN LAURIE TOCHIKI.

2003 Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition will hold a regional competition at the law school in October. Our law school will also host the finals in November as a part of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). PROF. CHRIS IIJIMA and PROF. ERIC YAMAMOTO will serve as advisors to our teams.

DEAN LARRY FOSTER is on Guam to interview candidates for the job of Federal Public Defender on Guam as a member of a committee appointed by the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit. He will also visit the University of Guam to recruit students and meet with alumni.

CHRIS IIJIMA’s article, "Shooting Justice Jackson's 'Loaded Weapon' at Ysar Hamdi: Judicial Abdication at the Convergence of Korematsu and McCarthy" has been accepted for publication by the Syracuse Law Review and is expected to be published in the fall.

RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED IN THE LIBRARY:

“Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology” edited by Berta Esperanza Hernandex-Truyol. New York: New York University Press, 2002. Chapter 17 Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights in U.S. Courts, by ERIC K. YAMAMOTO, CARRIE ANN Y. SHIROTA ’99 and JAYNA KANANI KIM ‘99 p. 300-319.

“A Reader on Race, Civil Rights and American Law: A Multiracial Approach” edited by Timothy Davis et al. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2001. JON VAN DYKE, The Political Status of Native Hawaiian People, p. 95-98. ERIC K. YAMAMOTO, Critical Race Praxis: Race Theory and Political Lawyering Practice in Post-Civil Rights America, p. 708-711.

“Understanding China's Legal System: Essays in Honor of Jerome A. Cohen” edited by C. Stephen Hsu. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Chapter 6, The Comparative Law School of China, by ALISON W. CONNER, p. 210-273.

APPELLATE ADVOCACY AWARDS were announced on April 30.

PALSO has elected STACI UWAINE 1L president and KELSIE SANEHISA 1L and TRISHA BARBOSA 1L vice-presidents.

IAN HLAWATI ‘01’s article "Lokoi’a: A Legal Guide to the Restoration of Native Hawaiian Fishponds Within the Western Paradigm” 24 U. Haw. L. Rev. 657 was recently cited by the Harvard law review in “International Law as an Interpretive Force in Federal Indian Law” 116 Harv. L. Rev. 1751, 1773 (2003).

KRISTINE NAMKUNG '02’s original play “Three Girls, Four Seasons” was performed at the Year End Series Festival at Northern Kentucky University. Set in Venice, the play centers around the composition and public performance of Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons". The Y.E.S. Festival of New Plays is devoted to the development of new plays and playwrights.