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University of Hawai'i |
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For Immediate Release: |
November 27, 1998 |
Contact: Carol Mon Lee, Assoc. Dean, School of Law 956-8636
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BOR appoints three law professors to endowed chairs The University of Hawai'i Board of Regents (BOR) recently approved Professor Corwin W. Johnson as the Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law. Johnson will visit the UH law school in spring 1999 to teach one course: Real Property I. He is from the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a member of the law school faculty since 1947. He is currently the Edward Clark Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus at that school. His principal academic interests are property, land use regulation and water law. He has been a visiting professor at over a dozen schools. Professor Dan F. Henderson was also appointed by the BOR as the George M. Johnson Visiting Professor of Law at the UH law school. He visits the school in spring 1999 and will teach two courses: Corporations and U.S.-Japan Comparative Corporation Law. He is from the University of California's Hastings College of Law and has been a professor of law, Sixty-Five Club, at Hastings since 1991. His principal academic interests are corporations and Asian law. Henderson has been a visiting professor at several overseas universities, including Cambridge University, Beijing University and University of Tokyo. The BOR reappointed Professor David L. Callies to the Benjamin A. Kudo Chair of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law. The UH BOR first appointed Callies as Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law in 1995. He was the unanimous choice of a faculty committee for the newly created chair. Callies came to the UH School of Law in 1978 following a decade of adjunct teaching and private practice where he counseled local, state and national government agencies in land use management and control, transportation policy and intergovernmental relations. He is a past chairman of the American Bar Association's Section on Urban, State and Local Government Law, and co-chair of the Academics' Forum and council member of the Asia Pacific Forum, both of the International Bar Association. Thanks to the generosity of Duty Free Shoppers, Ltd., and a legion of friends, an endowment fund has been established to honor Wallace S. Fujiyama, a distinguished Honolulu attorney and former University of Hawai'i Regent. The endowment enables the School of Law to bring the nation's most distinguished legal scholars to the school for one or more semesters each academic year as the Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. Established through a bequest from the estate of Dr. Johnson's widow, Evelyn, the George M. Johnson Visiting Professorship honors a distinguished legal scholar, teacher and civil rights advocate. Johnson's career highlights include serving as dean of Howard University Law School, helping to establish the University of Nigeria; service as a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and helping to plan the legal briefs for the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka desegregation case. At the University of Hawai'i Law School, he was the first director of the Pre-Admission Program (1974), a program which continues today to address the needs of groups that are underrepresented in the Hawai'i Bar. In 1994, the University of Hawai'i received a gift of $1.5 million to support the Benjamin A. Kudo Chair of Law. The anonymous donor designated that the chair should support a scholar in land use, environmental or administrative law. At the donor's request, the chair was established as a tribute to Benjamin A. Kudo, a distinguished and well-respected member of Hawai'i's legal community. Mr. Kudo currently practices as a partner with a major Honolulu law firm in the areas of land use, real estate development, natural resources and administrative law. In addition, Mr. Kudo is an adjunct professor of law at the UH law school. |
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