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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

PROF. ALISON CONNER received the UH Manoa Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching award on Monday at the UH Convocation. PROF. JON VAN DYKE was named the Outstanding Professor of the Year at the law school’s awards ceremony on Friday. This is the 4th time Prof. Van Dyke has received this honor. JOHN KOMEIJI and MAGISTRATE LESLIE KOBAYASHI, who co-taught Pre-Trial Litigation in Fall ’01, shared the Outstanding Adjunct Professor of the Year award. KRISTI SHIRAKI, secretary to Associate Dean Lee, was named Outstanding Staff Member of the Year. In addition, dozens of scholarship, public interest/service, subject, and other student awards were given out at the law school ceremony. A list of the award winners is posted on the Associate Dean’s Bulletin Board and on our website. Congratulations to all!

SITE VISIT. Dean Efren Rivera, Dean at the Univ. of Puerto Rico School of Law, will visit our law school on Sept. 23 to review and inspect our proposed LLM program on behalf of the American Bar Association.

OLD FINAL EXAMS. Your Spring 2002 semester final exam bluebooks may be picked up and kept by you. They are available through Monday, Sept. 30, 2002, at the Faculty Secretaries' Office, Room 252, between 8:00 and 10:00 am only. After that date, they may not be available.

VISITORS. Several Japanese law students visited the law school and attended some first year classes last week. Mr. Kei Tamura from Okayama University led the group of students from Ritsumeikan University, Waseda University, Hitotsubashi University, Chiba University, and Kwansei Gakuin University, as well as the Takita Patent Law Office in Tokyo. VISITING PROF. TAKASHI MARUTA served as translator and MARCUS LANDSBURG 2L and other PALS students helped out.

BOMB THREATS. Every semester, we remind students and faculty that the Manoa policy is to proceed with scheduled instruction and examinations to the fullest extent possible. ASSOC. DEAN CAROL MON LEE is the school’s Communication Coordinator.

COUNSELING and STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CENTER at 312 Student Services Center (956-7927) is available to students, faculty and staff at no charge for personal counseling, psychiatric counseling, and learning assistance as well as other concerns. Matters are kept confidential.

DAVID CALLIES and HEIDI GUTH ’02 have just completed an article on eminent domain law and procedure in the United States, which is being translated by Professor Tsuyoshi Kotaka of Meijo University (a frequent visiting professor to our law school) for publication in the Meijo Law Review. PROF. CALLIES has also been recently appointed to a 3-year term on the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.

DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES traveled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia this summer to participate in a conference on Globalization and Development in Mongolia. The sponsors of the conference were The Secretariat of the State Great Hural of Mongolia, The Academy of Management, and the University of Hawai`i. PROF. CONWAY-JONES presented a paper titled, "Law and the Most Recent Era of Globalization: Mongolia Steps Forward to Address Issues of Globalization and Law Convergence" which will be published by the Academy of Management this fall.

MARK LEVIN is in Kobe, Japan this year as the Faculty Resident Director for the UH Year in Japan Study Abroad Program. He and his family send regards to all. His email address remains levin@hawaii.edu.

RANDY ROTH’s talk from a recent ALI-ABA seminar is included in ALI-ABA’s "The Audio Estate Planner."

1L's Sin City Party for the law school was held on Friday night and was a huge success! CJ WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON was among the partygoers. Both Elvis and 1Lvis made appearances! STACI UWAINE 1L coordinated the event with 100% participation from the 1L class.

SHAWN CHING 2L was the subject of an article in Mid-Week in August. SHAWN now co-anchors the weekday evening news on KITV.

KAHIKINO DETTWEILER 1L and STEPHANIE THOMPSON 1L were among the students pictured in the Honolulu Star Bulletin’s coverage of the Pledge Ceremony at the Hawaii Supreme Court during Orientation in late August.

The STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION has donated $250.00 to next year’s Susan McKay Intramural Moot Court Competition.

NADINE ANDO ’82 was recently appointed by the governor to a four- year term on the Hawaii State Ethics Commission.

REX KIM ’89 was recently installed as Secretary of the Korean American Bar Association of Hawaii.