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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor (used with permission)

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor spent a week in Hawaiʻi as part of the Jurist-in-Residence program at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

During her visit to the law school, she taught classes, judged a Moot Court practice and met with faculty and students.

Founded in 1987 and sponsored since 2000 by the Honolulu law firm of Case Lombardi & Pettit, the Jurist-in-Residence program brings Supreme Court Justices to the law school to meet with students and faculty, as well as members of the Hawaiʻi State Judiciary and the Hawaiʻi State Bar Association.

Read the law school’s news release recapping Sotomayor’s week-long visit and highlights in the law school newsletter, Ke Kula Kānāwai.

News coverage of her visit to Hawaiʻi include Honolulu Civil Beat, Ka Leo and Pacific Business News.

Editor’s note: Photographs associated with this post are the property of the William S. Richardson School of Law and may not be used in association with fundraising or in any way that might suggest endorsement. Permission must be sought for any other use.

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