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

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

WELCOME to our Visiting Faculty this semester. PROF. MARI MATSUDA ’80 from Georgetown will teach TORTS II and CONSTITUTIONAL LAW II in the spring. She is the George M. Johnson Visiting Professor this year. PROF. DAVID FARMER ’85, a regular adjunct, is visiting this year to teach Secured Transactions and Debtors/Creditors this fall and Business Bankruptcy in the spring. PROF. NICHOLAS ORDWAY, from the College of Business Administration who holds a J.D. and PhD., is teaching International Business Transactions. PROF. TSUYOSHI KOTAKA from Meijo Univ. returns again to teach Japanese Administrative Law.

VISITORS. The law school will host several visitors this week. Lawyers and judges attending the First Worldwide Uchinanchu Conference this weekend will be hearing a presentation on sexual harassment by SUSAN ICHINOSE ’77 in the Moot Court Room on Tuesday. Later this week, law students from Waseda University will be visiting and attending some classes.

Fall 2003 Registration and Payment Receipt Deadlines. Login to MyUH Online Services for current course listings and registration instruction. Visit the UH Manoa Registration Homepage. (http://www.hawaii.edu/myuh/manoa/) Fall 2003 Payment Receipt Deadline is Wed. Sept. 3, at 4:00 pm. After login to MyUH Online Services, go to your "Student Records" account and select "View My Account For Each Term" for your outstanding balance. Click "Credit Card Payment" on bottom to pay for your tuition and fees. (http://www.hawaii.edu/myuh/manoa/fall2003/payment/payment_receipt.htm)

30th ANNIVERSARY and REUNION DINNER to be held on Sat. Sept. 13, 2003, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village will welcome DEAN AVI SOIFER and thank DEAN LARRY FOSTER ’81 for serving as dean since 1995. The proceeds of the fundraiser will be used to establish a scholarship in DEAN FOSTER’S name. The event is already one of the largest law community dinners ever with over 700 people expected, including former deans JERRY DUPONT, CLIFF THOMPSON, JEREMY HARRISON and RICHARD MILLER and alumni GOV. JOHN WAIHEE ’76, LT. GOVERNOR JAMES “DUKE” AIONA ’81. Governor Linda Lingle, CJ Ronald Moon, and Jurists-in-Residence founder Judge Myron Bright will also attend. Several alumni will entertain. Emcees are SHAWN CHING ’03 and MARILYN MONIZ-KAHOOHANOHANO ’79. Special faculty, staff and student prices available. Contact trudywon@hawaii.edu, 956-5516.

The Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament held on May 29, 2003, raised $5,000 for the Elder Law Clinic and student scholarships.

CJ WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON is profiled in the current issue of Malamalama, along with a separate story on DEAN SOIFER.

DENISE ANTOLINI’s article "Modernizing Public Nuisance" was selected as one of the "thirty best articles published in the last year" by the Land Use and Environment Law Review.

DAVID CALLIES, Paula Franzese and HEIDI GUTH ’02’s article “Ramapo Looking Forward: Gated Communities, Covenants and Concerns” has been published in The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 35, No.1, Winter 2003. PROF.CALLIES also has a commentary in the Land Use Law & Zoning Digest July 2003 issue entitled “Buckey and Ballot Box Zoning: When Democracy is a Dangerous Thing.”

ALISON CONNER was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship for spring 2004. She will be teaching business organizations and comparative law at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing. PROF. CONNER was a recent guest on the radio show UH Today discussing our new LLM program and her Chinese law research.

CASEY JARMAN’s article "Beyond the 'Courts of the Conqueror': Balancing Private and Cultural Property Rights Under Hawai‘i Law" co-authored with Robert R.M. Verchick, has been published in 5 The Scholar 201 (2003).

ERIC YAMAMOTO and CASEY JARMAN conducted an Adjunct Teaching Workshop for our fall adjuncts on Aug. 20 at the offices of Carlsmith Ball.

Our four LL.M. students include GRETEL SALIMBAGAT SIA who has a law degree from Silliman University, Dumaguete City, the Philippines, where she is on the faculty. She is also a trial lawyer.

RANAE DOSER 2L and CHRIS TERRY 2L have been selected to join JOSH MEDEIROS 3L on the 2003 International Environmental Law Moot Court team. The faculty advisor is adjunct professor DOUG CODIGA. This year’s competition is Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2003 at Stetson law school, Florida. Last year, our International Environmental Law Moot Court team placed first in the nation and second in the world.

DEAN N’ DONUTS was held Wed. August 27 for students to meet the new dean, AVI SOIFER. Mahalo to DOMINIQUE TANSLEY 2L, ADRIENNE SUAREZ 2L, JOSH MEDEIROS 3L, THERESA FRASER 1L, JASMINE BRANCO 1L, LEVI HOOKANO 1L, SARAH SUTHERLAND 2L and MING CHI, SBA PRESIDENT. UH FOUNDATION also helped sponsor the event.

JESSY TOWN HORNOR 2L and husband Mark welcomed baby Eva Olivia Hornor on August 20 at 7 lbs 10 oz. and 19 3/4 inches.

CAL ’02 and LAURA ’02 CHIPCHASE are the proud parents of baby girl, Isabella Grace Chipchase, born on May 15 at 7 lbs 5 oz.

STEPHANIE REZENTS ’77 and THOMAS CROWLEY ’76 have announced their new family law firm Rezents & Crowley.

APRIL WILSON-SOUTH ’94 and SUSAN HIPPENSTEELE ’01 have opened the Hawai‘i Women’s Law Center, LLLC.