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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Welcome to this special school year! We have much to celebrate – our new dean, AVI SOIFER, our largest entering class ever, our first LL.M. class, our 30th anniversary, and the achievements of our faculty and students. It will take us several issues to catch up with all the news.

UH BOARD OF REGENTS recently elected PATRICIA LEE ’79 as its chair. Other board members are TED H.S. HONG ’83 and student member TRENT KAKUDA ’2L. The law school is represented well.

SPRING ’03 Final Exams. You have through Tuesday, Sept. 30 to pick-up and keep your final exams from the spring semester. They are available at the faculty secretaries' office, Room 252, between 8:00 am and 10:00 am only. After that date, they will not be available.

KEIKO OKUHARA is our new Bibliographic Services/Systems Librarian. Keiko has her BA in English Lit from Nihon University in Tokyo and her MLS from North Carolina Central University. She has been the Japanese catalog librarian at the East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh since 1997.

MELANIE SOLON is our new Public Services Librarian moving here from Allentown, Pa. She has a B.S. in Poli Sci from University of Scranton, J.D. from Ohio Northern University, and M. Law Libr. from University of Washington. Melanie has served as the Public Services Librarian at Ohio State, Villanova, and Hofstra. She was also the director at the Illinois Supreme Court Library and the U.S. Dept. of Labor. Melanie will also co-teach Legal Research this semester.

TRUDY SCHANDLER-WONG is the law school’s new part-time community relations/alumni specialist working on the 30th Anniversary Dinner Celebration on Sept. 13 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Trudy is also helping LL.M. Director ALISON CONNER with our new LL.M. students. Trudy has years of experience working with many community organizations in Hawai‘i and is a graduate of Univ. of North Carolina and George Washington Univ. Graduate School.

LL.M. DIRECTOR PROF. ALISON CONNER welcomed our first four LL.M. students: SVITLANA PRONINA CAMPBELL (law degree from Kherson State Pedagogical Institute, Ukraine), ELLEN EICHBERG (degree from University of Bonn School of Law, Germany), ANETA GRABOWSKA (Master of Law degree from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, Poland) and JEONG HWAN-HEE (LL.B. and LL.M. from Seoul National University, Korea). Our LL.M. (Masters of Law) program received official university approval over the summer.

HAZEL BEH has been promoted to Full Professor. DENISE ANTOLINI and DANIELLE CONWAY-JONES have been promoted to Associate Professors and granted tenure. We believe PROF. CONWAY-JONES is the first African American woman to receive tenure in the history of UH Manoa. SWEE BERKEY was promoted Librarian rank B4.

DENISE ANTOLINI is a Fulbright Scholar this year in Italy as the 2003-2004 Distinguished Chair in Environmental Studies teaching an undergraduate and graduate course in environmental law for the Spring 2004 semester at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin.

DAVID CALLIES' article "Historic Preservation Law in the United States" was selected for the "top 10 articles" and will be published in volume 34 of Land Use and Environmental Law Review. PROF. CALLIES has written a chapter entitled "Lessons from the Quiet Revolution” in the ELI book, New Ground: The Advent of Local Environmental Law. His article on the same subject is published in the most recent edition of the Pace University Environmental Law Review.

VIRGINIA HENCH has co-authored a casebook “Criminal Law Cases and Comments” published by Foundation Press this summer.

JIM PIETSCH was named the recipient of the Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation Award for Faculty Service to the Community.

ERIC YAMAMOTO received the Patsy Mink Award from Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii at its Celebration of Justice Dinner in July.

The Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ) published Volume IV, Issue 2 this summer. The issue includes; comments and recent developments by BRIAN DUUS 3L, KIM CHANBONPIN ’03, RINA CHUNG ’03, and ANDREW STEWART ’02, a reproduction of a biography of the late Patsy Mink accompanied by a foreword written by TANIA CRUZ 3L and PROF. ERIC YAMAMOTO, and a book review by PROF. JON VAN DYKE. The issue is dedicated to DEAN LARRY FOSTER. View Vol. IV, Issue 2 at www.hawaii.edu/aplpj.

BEADIE DAWSON ’81 will be honored by the SBA at the End of Summer Bash on August 30 at Rumours.

DESIREE HIKIDA MOKUOHAI ’02 and husband Samson are the proud parents of baby Chloe Kaloiakea Mokuohai born on June 20.

DELLA AU BELATTI ’03 and BARBARA WONG ’03 are the newest members of the WSRSL Alumni Board.