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William S. Richardson School
of Law KE KULA KANAWAI |
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| Volume 7, No. 1 | Week of August 26, 2002 |
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| Welcome to everyone as we begin an exciting new school year!
We look forward to getting to know each member of our large entering class.
This is the last academic year Dean Larry Foster will be serving as our
Dean before he joins the faculty. In March 2003, the ABA Re-accreditation
Team will conduct a Site Visit. The school will celebrate its 30th anniversary
in 2003. We also expect approval of our first LLM program to start in Fall
2003. This and the next few issues will include news items accumulated over the summer. |
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FACULTY |
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DENISE ANTOLINI was elected to serve on the Senate Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate. PROF. ANTOLINI’s article "Water Rights and Responsibilities in the Twenty-first Century: A Foreward to the Proceeding of the 2001 Symposium on Managing Hawai'i's Public Trust Doctrine" appears in the most recent UH Law Review. HAZEL BEH’S article,” The Role of Institutional Review Boards
in ALISON CONNER will be honored on Sept. 9 as a 2002 recipient of a Chancellor's Citation for Meritorious Teaching. This is the fifth year in a row that one of our faculty has been recognized by the University for their excellence in teaching and is a testament to the high quality of teaching at our school. DEAN LARRY FOSTER’s article “The Impact of the Close Relationship Between American Law Schools and the Practicing Bar” appeared in the Journal of Legal Education, Vol 51, Number 3 (Sept. 2001) but just distributed in late spring. RANDY ROTH’s 1992 book title "Price of Paradise" is being used by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for a new series. The Price of Paradise began as a book of essays compiled by PROF. ROTH Later, it developed into a long-running series of Sunday newspaper articles, a radio show and a second book. The mission of POP, as it became known, was to offer lively and informed dialog about public issues, particularly those having to do with our pocketbooks. University of Tokyo Faculty of Law Professor KATSUYA UGA visited Hawaii
in July. PROF. UGA is one of Tokyo University's senior specialists in
administrative law and was the principal draftsperson for Japan's Administrative
Procedure Law and its Freedom of Information Law, both recently published
in translation in our Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal. |
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STUDENTS |
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| 98 new 1L students took the “Law Student’s Pledge”
to promote justice and instill professional behavior on Wed. Aug. 21. PROF.
CHRIS IIJIMA drafted the pledge and Chief Justice Ronald Moon administered
the pledge at the Hawaii Supreme Court. The new ceremony, which received
local news media coverage, will become a regular part of all future Orientations. UH Law Review Vol. 24, No. 1 was published in June. The Editorial |
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| Co-Editors-in-Chief: Joe Kotowski Stanton Oishi Executive Managing Editor: Liann Ebesugawa Production Editors: Duke Oishi Alison Kunishige Kellie Pendras Recent Developments Editors: Erin Lum Wendy Hanakahi Casenote Editors: Joie Yuen Elizabeth Paek Comments Editors: Shirley Garcia Hokulei Lindsey Outside Articles Editors: |
The new members of the Law Review staff are: Aaron Creps Lori Amano Christian Adams Tania Cruz Jennifer Young Chenise Kanemoto Jodene Arakaki David Paulson Paul Herran Van Luong Ronald Lum Jennifer Carpenter Allison Ito Malia Lee Michelle Miwa Summer Kupau Shellie Park Kanoelani Kane Nathan Roehrig Shaunda Liu |
| BARBARA WONG 3L, former Assistant Police Chief, was selected as one of 9 UH campus wide students to be profiled in a statewide advertising campaign last May. | |
ALUMNI |
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2002 representatives on the WSRSL alumni board are LAURA ALBRIGHT CHIPCHASE’02 and NORMAN CHENG’02. LAURA and CAL CHIPCHASE’02 tied the knot this summer and returned from their honeymoon to study for the bar! DR. KENT KEITH ’77 was featured in a May issue of People Magazine
in connection with his new book “The Paradoxical Commandments”
originally penned while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University.
The book has gotten widespread national attention. |
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LAW SCHOOL COMMUNITY |
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Former LAW LIBRARIAN and ACTING DEAN JERRY DUPONT was selected by the AALL Awards Committee as a recipient of the 2002 Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award. PROF. DUPONT is now the executive director of the Law Library Microform Consortium. FRIEDA HONDA’s son CHRIS was the subject of a lengthy article in
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