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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

The Pohaku Fund has pledged a three-year gift of $10,000 a year to support our Environmental Law Program. The Fund was so pleased with the ELP’s accomplishments from its first gift that it agreed to provide a new pledge.

The Gifford Foundation in California has donated $20,000 to establish the "Distinguished Lectureship in Real Property, Sponsored by the Gifford Foundation in Honor of Jerry M. Hiatt '77 and PROF. DAVID CALLIES." The inaugural lecture will be in November with Prof. James Ely, distinguished professor from Vanderbilt Univ.

McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon law firm has endowed a fund for student scholarships. The gift is $100,000 over 5 years, including the scholarship endowment of $75,000. The firm has also pledged to continue its annual support for the Law Annual Fund at $5,000.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has agreed to return to Hawai’i as our next jurist in residence in Feb. 2004 along with retired 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Myron Bright.

Welcome to Visiting Prof. STEVE ROADY who is teaching Domestic Ocean and Coastal Law and Legal Method Seminar while PROF. CASEY JARMAN spends the fall teaching at UH Hilo. PROF.ROADY has taught at American University for years in addition to practicing law. He was most recently the CEO of Oceana, Inc. in Washington D.C., a non-profit international ocean conservation organization.

Congratulations to CHRIS IIJIMA granted tenure, MARK LEVIN promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and JIM PIETSCH promoted to Full Professor this past summer.

DAVID CALLIES moderated an ABA teleconference on the effect of the USSCT's Tahoe-Sierra v. TRPA decision on the jurisprudence of regulatory takings in June. PROF. CALLIES and CAL CHIPCHASE ’02 are writing an article based on the teleconference for the UH Law Review Tahoe-Sierra symposium issue.

RANDY ROTH’s article on legal aspects of the Kamehameha Schools admissions controversy appeared in the July 28 Star Bulletin (http://starbulletin.com/2002/07/28/editorial/indexspecial.html). A footnoted version will appear later this year in the International Journal of Non-Profit Law. After providing advise on an informal basis for several years, PROF. ROTH recently agreed to serve as co-counsel for the Alumni Association of the Milton Hershey School, pro bono.

CATHERINE THOMAS is the new Technical Services/Acquisitions Librarian and Acting Bibliographic Services/Systems Librarian.

JON VAN DYKE has been in the media recently providing his expertise on the recent discovery of the Japanese submarine hit in the early hours of Dec. 7, 1941 and sitting on the bottom of Pearl Harbor all these years.

RANDY GEUY '01 is currently on active duty in the West Sahara, attached to the United States Military Observers Group, Washington, DC. USMOG sends military observers to U.N. missions around the world, making sure the cease-fire terms are being adhered to.

CHRIS KEMPNER '02 won $1,500 for the Treatment Advocacy Center's Student Writing Competition on Emerging Issues in Mental Illness Law. The topic was "Would the current United States Supreme Court decide that parens patriae-based civil commitments (rather than police power-based ones) for individuals with severe mental illness are constitutional and, if so, what parameters would it set for their use?"

DELIA PARKER-ULIMA '00 appeared in a photo for an article about the Made in Hawai`i Festival in the Honolulu Advertiser recently. Delia's company sells die-cut flowers, ferns, honu and other Hawaiian-themed designs for their scrapbook and craft product line.

BYRON SHIBATA '00 has been in Japan teaching law for the past few years and will be entering military service with the USAF JAG later this month.

FORMER VISITING PROF. PAMELA SAMUELSON (and UH Distinguished Alumna) and her husband Dr. Robert Glushko have made a generous gift to support New Economy Research Grants for Fall 2002. Up to $100,000 is available to support faculty research on the impacts of technology and innovation on individuals, societies, cultures, organizations, markets, or governments. See http://www.hawaii.edu/connections/NewEcon.htm