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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Manoa’s telephone voicemail system is being upgraded in 2 phases, Sunday, Oct. 20 and Sunday, Oct. 27. If you experience problems after the upgrades, dial "0" to report the trouble between Monday and Friday, 7:45 am to 4:30 pm.

LLM PROGRAM. The Board of Regents formally approved our new LLM program on October 18. American Bar Association approval is still pending but is expected within the next month. Program Director Prof. ALISON CONNER has already received requests for applications for the program planning to admit its first students in Fall ’03.

LINDA DEUTSCH, one of only 18 reporters in Associated Press’s 150-year history with the designation of AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, will be on campus on Monday visiting the Criminal Justice class among others. She is AP's premier courtroom reporter having covered the major trials of the last three decades, as well as several presidents.

ADJUNCT DOWNTOWN LUNCHEON. The first downtown luncheon held on October 11 was attended by 14 adjuncts. PROF. JOHN BARKAI and ADJUNCT MICHAEL TANIGAWA lead a talk on skills courses. The second luncheon will be this Friday, October 25 at Ashford and Wriston, Alii Place, 14th floor, 12:00 - 1:00 on doctrinal/substantive courses. Contact DEAN LEE at 956-8636.

HAWAII STATE BAR CONVENTION’s law school booth was a big success. Hundreds of alumni and friends stopped by to talk and pick-up free copies of recent UH Law Review issues and faculty publications. WSRSL Alumni Association members and several law students helped staff the booth. MATT MONEYHON 3L received the Best Second Year Seminar Paper award at the Young Lawyer’s Division luncheon. At the Friday luncheon, Adjunct Prof. GAIL NAKATANI and ARTEMIO BAXA ’78 were among those honored as retiring judges. Adjunct Prof. LANE HORNFECK ’98 and TERRY YOSHINAGA ’76 were among the entertainers directed by Adjunct Prof. DAVID FARMER.

EXAMSOFT (a software program enabling students to use their own laptops for final exams) had a successful trial run in the Criminal Justice mid-term. Plans are proceeding to implement Examsoft for other final exams this fall. Contact DEAN TOCHIKI at laurite@hawaii.edu.

The inaugural Distinguished Lectureship in Real Property sponsored by The Gifford Foundation will take place on Friday, Nov. 22 at 3:00. Prof. James W. Ely, Jr., Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise Prof. Of Law, Vanderbilt University will speak on “Can the ‘Despotic Power’ be Tamed? Reconsidering the Public Use Limitation on Eminent Domain.” The lectureship was established to honor PROF. DAVID CALLIES and Big Island attorney JERRY HIATT ’77 by Jack Gifford, a prominent California businessman.

JOHN BARKAI will speak at the Alternative Dispute Resolution Mini-

Workshop at the Association of American Law School’s annual conference in Washington DC in January.

HAZEL BEH has been appointed the editor of the AALS Insurance Section newsletter, Occurrences. PROF. BEH has also been selected as a corresponding editor of "Legal Affairs Section - ASCE J. of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice." This is a new journal publication of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

MARK LEVIN reports from Japan that he traveled to Hiroshima to spend the day with a group of students and faculty from Southern Cross University's College of Indigenous Australian People visiting Japan, who used his "Essential Commodities" article as their research source for their travel and meetings with Ainu people in Hokkaido and Tokyo. Under the heading “small world” while on the trip, he met LYNN ARAKI ’95, honeymooning with her new husband, Keith.

JON VAN DYKE’s article in yesterday’s Honolulu Advertiser spelled out the international law and practical consequences of Bush's attacking Iraq without UN sanction.

ERIC YAMAMOTO is in the Bay Area this week giving two lectures connected to the Santa Clara Social Justice Center and having a working session with the Equal Justice Society in SF.

KANOE KANE 3L, JOSH MEDEIROS 2L and KIM CHANBONPIN 3L will leave next week for the Stetson International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition in Florida.

LANCE COLLINS 2L is Ka Leo O Hawai'i Opinions Editor and a recent staff editorial he wrote was printed in the Digital Edition of the New York Times. The article was titled: "Congress Must Not Give Bush II Any Additional Military Powers."

DAVID LUSK 2L is the proud daddy of Kiana Navanh Lusk born on October 19, 2002 at 5 lbs. 7.5 ounces and 19 inches. Mommy and baby are doing fine.

WSRSL Alumni Association will present a program “Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA) and Immigrant Clients: How it Affects Your Practice of Law” on Sat. January 11, 8:30 – 12:30 at the law school. The Alumni Association has tentatively scheduled Sunday, January 12, 2003, for a law school clean up before the ABA Site Visit in March. Alumni, faculty, staff, student and friend volunteers are welcome.

LELIA BECK ’00 was in Hawaii to attend the wedding of AMY TAKAHASHI ’00 and Joe Kendrick. LELIA has two children and is living in Virginia now.

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