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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

LAW SCHOOL DEAN SEARCH UPDATE. UH Law Search Advisory Committee has retained Korn/Ferry International to assist in finding a new dean to replace DEAN LARRY FOSTER who announced earlier this year that he would return to the faculty after 15 years in administrative positions at the law school. The Search Committee chair is BEADIE KANEHELE DAWSON ’81 who also chairs the Friends of the Law School board. Committee members:

LLM PROGRAM. Dean Efren Rivera, Univ. of Puerto Rico School of Law, visited last week on behalf of the ABA to review our proposed LLM program for international students. His report was very positive noting that the school is in a good position to commence the LL.M. Program in Fall 2003. UH Board of Regents will review the program for final approval in October. Program Director PROF. ALISON CONNER has already received several requests for applications.

Welcome to US Bankruptcy Judge ROBERT FARIS who has stepped in to teach Debtors/Creditors Rights for the remainder of the semester.
Also welcome to Visiting Prof. JENNY SHYU who will begin teaching Topics/China (Taiwan Law) this week.

DENISE ANTOLINI will speak at the December 5, 2002 conference "Who Can Sue: Legal Challenges to Standing in Environmental and Land Use Disputes," sponsored by the Albany Law School, its Government Law Center, and several sections of the New York Bar Association. PROF. ANTOLINI will speak on the challenges presented by the special injury rule in public nuisance actions.

RONALD BROWN, lectured at Peking Law School this summer, and as Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, met with officials at several universities to arrange exchange relationships with UH, including with Tsinghua Univ. (comprehensive), Beijing Normal Univ (film), and Beijing Nationalities Univ. (training programs). Also during the summer, Prof. Brown gave a presentation entitled "Developing Programs on Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the Univ. of Hawaii" at an international conference on Integrative Medicine at the East West Center, jointly sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, Tai Hsuan College of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, the John Burns School of Medicine, and the Hawaii Consortium for Integrative Medicine.

DAVID CALLIES has written a short chapter commenting upon the dissent in the USSCT case of Tahoe Sierra v. TRPA for an ABA supplement on regulatory takings, for publication later this year by the ABA Press. PROF. CALLIES’ article “ Historic Preservation Law in the United States of America” appears in Japanese (translated by regular law school visitor PROF. TSUYOSHI KOTAKA) in the quarterly issue of the Meijo Law Review Vol. 52, No. 1, 2002.

JON VAN DYKE made a presentation on Sept. 11 at the University of Rhode Island on "The Maritime Boundaries of the United States -- Resolved and Unresolved" at a meeting held by the Korea-America Joint Marine Policy Research Center at the University of Rhode Island.

STANTON OISHI 3L and SUMMER KUPAU 2L are the two new members of the Environmental Law Moot Court Team joining Team Captain DELLA AU BELLATI 3L. They will travel to the national competition at Pace University School of Law in late February 2003.

Phi Delta Phi donated $214. and law students raised $301 for the Susan Komen Foundation's "Race for the Cure" this week-end, led by SCOTT SUZUKI 2L, JENN YOUNG 2L and other students participants and volunteers: ANNIE LEE 3L, ALISON KUNISHIGE 3L, AIMEE LUM 1L , RON LUM 2L, BEAU BASSETT 1L, CHRIS COX 2L, JILL HASEGAWA 2L, JOHN TALICH 1L, KEALII TAKAHASHI 1L, KENKI AKAMU 3L,KRISTINA TOSHIKIYO 3L, LORI & Josh AMANO 2L, LARS & JILL PETERSON 1L, LAURA WHITTEN 1L, LALII CHIN 1L, LISA LAGRANGE 1L, LIANN EBESUGAWA 3L, MICHELLE MURAOKA 3L, OKIE DIKE 1L, RYAN WOODWARD 2L, SARA COSSON 1L & mom, SHERRY MENOR 1L, STACI UWAINE 1L, TOMOKO MILLER 1L, TRISHA BARBOSA 1L & mom, TRISHA WATSON 3L, VAN LUONG 2L, WENDY YAMAMOTO 3L, TRACI MORITA 3L, DAYLAN TAKAHASHI 1L, YOLANDA CORTEZ 2L,JINHEE KIM 1L, ROSE SAM 1L, DAVID NAKASHIMA1L AND JUSTIN STURDEVANT 1L.

More election news: BOBBY JEAN LEITHEAD-TODD ’86 was reelected to Hawaii County Council, Senate District 3’s PAUL WHALEN ’91 and House District 37’s KEKUA BEAMER ’94 won their primaries and move on to the general.