ELP: faculty

The School of Law's Environmental Law Program faculty are nationally and internationally recognized for their expertise. They actively participate as advocates, consultants, and decisionmakers on some of the most significant environmental issues in the state of Hawai‘i.

Professor David L. Callies

(AB, Depauw University,1965; JD, University of Michigan, 1968; LLM, Nottingham University (England), 1969) holds the distinguished
Benjamin A. Kudo Chair of Law. Professor Callies teaches property law, land use management and control, and state and local government law. He joined the faculty in 1978 with a decade of experience adjunct teaching and in private practice counseling local, state, and national government agencies in land use management and control, transportation policy, and intergovernmental relations. Professor Callies is a member of the prestigious American Law Institute and has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Planners and to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. In 2000, Professor Callies was conferred the honor of lifetime member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, where he was a visiting scholar. Professor Callies has authored and collaborated on numerous publications, including The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control; Cases and Materials on Land Use (4th ed.); Property Law and the Public Interest (2d ed.); Land Use and Environmental Law Review (co-editor); Land Use and Compulsory Purchase in the Asia-Pacific (co-editor); and Bargaining for Development: A Handbook on Develop-ment Agreements, Annexation Agreements, Vested Rights and Land Development Conditions (co-author). He has lectured on land use and property law in the Pacific Islands, Asia, Europe, and Australia, and surveyed land and environmental laws in the Pacific Islands, Canada, and South America. Professor Callies is an avid swimmer and devoted fan of UH volleyball and basketball. dcallies@hawaii.edu

Professor Jon Van Dyke

(BA, cum laude, Yale University, 1964; JD, cum laude, Harvard University, 1967) has served on the faculty since 1976,teaching constitutional law, international law, international ocean law, and international human rights. He supervises the School of Law’s successful Jessup International Law Moot Court Team. He has authored and edited numerous books, including International Law and Litigation in the U.S. and Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century, which earned the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award as the best book on environmental policy for 1994 from the International Studies Association. He is currently researching and writing on the legal issues raised by shipments of radioactive materials through the oceans, the use of low-frequency active sonar by navies and its impact on marine mammals, the siting of nuclear power plants, the impact of atmospheric testing in the Pacific, water rights in Hawai‘i, the rights of natives to land and resources, and management of fisheries on the high seas and whaling. He travels frequently, most recently lecturing in Fiji, London, Kuala Lumpur, Panama City, and Bangkok. Between his frequent trips to the Pacific Islands and Asia, he enjoys his home nestled in the tropical rainforest overlooking Manoa Valley with his wife Sherry Broder, a prominent Honolulu attorney. jvandyke@hawaii.edu

Professor M. Casey Jarman
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

(BA, magna cum laude, Barry University, 1971; MS, Florida International University, 1974; JD, University of Mississippi, 1981; LLM, University of Washington, 1985) came from the University of Mississippi, where she was Director of the Coastal and Marine Resources Program, to join the School of Law faculty in 1987. She is the founder and past Director of the ELP. She teaches environmental, administrative, domestic ocean and coastal law courses, and legal writing. She co-advises the Environmental Law Society and the Environmental Law Moot Court Teams. After serving two terms on the State Land Use Commission, she realized that community groups were disadvantaged at agency hearings because of their lack of training in administrative and land use law. As a result, she prepared a workbook, video, and workshops to train small landowners and community activitists. Professor Jarman was a founding member of Law Professors for Environmental Justice, past chair of the Environmental Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and has organized several national environmental law conferences. She has won many awards for her community service, including the Hawai‘i Women Lawyers’ prestigious President’s Award. Professor Jarman and her significant other live in the Volcano area on the Big Island, where they work to restore native plant and turtle habitat. jarman@hawaii.edu

Professor Denise E. Antolini

(AB, magna cum laude, Princeton University, 1982; MPP, University of California, Berkely, 1985; JD, University of California, Berkeley, 1986) joined the faculty in 1996, assisted Professor Jarman in the development of the ELP, and now serves as its Director. She teaches torts, environmental law courses, and legal writing. She co-advises the Environmental Law Society and the Environmental Law Moot Court Teams. After a federal district court clerkship in Washington, D.C., she spent eight years practicing public interest law with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice) in Seattle and Honolulu. She was editor-in-chief of Ecology Law Quarterly at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. Professor Antolini litigated several major environmental cases involving coastal pollution, water rights, endangered species, environmental impact statements, and Native Hawaiian rights. She served on state legislative task forces involving tort reform and Native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights and is currently chair of the State Environmental Council. She was honored with the Hawai‘i Women Lawyers’ Distinguished Community Service Award in 2003. She recently authored a governance review of Hawai‘i’s marine managed areas for the State of Hawai‘i and has published articles in the areas of public nuisance and punitive damages. In 2003–04, she received a Fulbright award and lived with her family for a year in Italy, where she taught international environmental law as the Distinguished Chair in Environmental Studies at the Politecnico di Torino (Turin). Professor Antolini lives on O‘ahu’s rural North Shore with her husband and energetic young sons, and enjoys hiking, gardening, and family beach excursions. antolini@hawaii.edu

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR DOUGLAS A. CODIGA, a 1994 graduate of the School of Law’s Environmental Law Program, obtained an L.L.M. degree from Yale Law School in 1999, where he studied environmental law and international law. He also holds a master’s degree in religion, with a specialty in environmental ethics and Asian religions. He is an associate with Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing in Honolulu. As an ELP adjunct professor, he has co-taught Ecophilosophy and the Law with Professor Jarman, and taught Wildlife and Natural Resources Law, International Environmental Law, and Legal Methods Seminar. codiga@hawaii.edu

"I came to law school intending to practice environmental law. The law school's Environmental Law Certificate Program provided a practical and meaningful focus for my course work. After graduating, I found that my certificate signaled to others in the legal community that I have a strong background in environmental law and an abiding interest in that type of practice. The ELP provided me that important first step on my way towards my LLM at Yale University and an eventual career in law."
-Doug Codiga, class of 1994, LLM, Yale University Law School, 1999, formerly an associate practicing corporate environmental law with Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel in Honolulu, currently an associate with Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MOYA GRAY earned her B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa in 1978 and her J.D. from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 1981. She is the former Director of the Office of Information Practices for the State of Hawai‘i where she was responsible for ensuring government employees' compliance with open records, open meetings, and open privacy laws. She is currently teaching a Topics in Environmental Law course entitled "Getting Government Information."

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR JOHN OKI, who earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, began teaching Hazardous Waste Law in Spring 1999. Formerly corporate counsel for Pfizer Inc. (New York and Connecticut) in charge of its national Superfund work for ten years, he currently is in private practice in Honolulu, where he handles environmental and intellectual property cases. He is also an expert on environmental law issues in the Pacific Rim, including Japan and Korea.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR LINDA PAUL is a 1990 graduate of William S. Richardson School of Law. While a law student, she founded and directed the Environmental Law Society. She is the Executive Director of Aquatics for the Hawai‘i Audubon Society and the Project Administrator for the Pacific Fisheries Coalition Project. She is also the Director of the Ocean Law and Policy Institute of the Pacific Forum. In Fall 2002, Professor Paul co-taught International Environmental Law with ADJUNCT PROFESSOR DOUG CODIGA.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR DENNIS SAITO earned his B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from the University of Hawaii at Manoa before earning a J.D. and M.B.A. through the Joint Degree Program at University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and Graduate School of Business in 1979. He clerked for Hawai‘i State Supreme Court Justice Herman Lum and worked as an associate attorney with the Honolulu firm Carlsmith and Dwyer. He currently serves as Associate General Counsel to Tesoro Hawaii Corporation.

Affiliated Faculty: Experienced Teachers, Practitioners and Community Leaders

PROFESSOR JOHN L. BARKAI, who has both an M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Michigan, joined the faculty of the School of Law in 1978. Professor Barkai directs the clinical program and teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Evidence, and Prosecution Clinic. He is active in the legal community, serving as President of the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood Justice (Mediation) Center, past Chair of the ADR Section of the Hawai‘i State Bar, and past President of the Legal Aid Society of Hawai‘i. Professor Barkai has also served as a consultant to the Hawai‘i Judiciary, the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia, the State Court of Kosrae, and the Minister of Justice for Papua New Guinea. barkai@hawaii.edu

PROFESSOR WILLIAMSON B.C. CHANG received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, he teaches Native Hawaiian Rights, Legal Aspects of Water Resources Control, Jurisprudence, and Conflict of Laws. He has served as principal investigator on research projects examining water rights in Hawai‘i, American Samoa, and the Federated States of Micronesia, and as a special deputy attorney general representing the Chief Justice of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court in the McBryde water rights case. He is recognized both nationally and internationally for his scholarship on native Hawaiian issues. Professor Chang visited Hiroshima University as part of the School of Law’s faculty exchange program and University of Western Australia at Perth under the Fulbright exchange program. From 1989 to 1990, he worked as a special assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye on kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) rights. wbchang@hawaii.edu

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR JEAN CAMPBELL graduated cum laude with her JD in 2000 from the William S. Richardson School of Law and is an associate at the Honolulu law firm Carlsmith Ball. She practices real property and environmental law with a concentration in the areas of real property development and mergers and acquisitions. She received her BA in English, with honors, from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and her Master of Arts from San Diego State University. She co-teaches a seminar on real estate transactions and natural resources conservation with Melinda Ching.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MELINDA CHING, a graduate of the University of California Davis Law School, is Regional Counsel for The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Asia-Pacific Region and Hawai‘i. She manages a legal staff in Honolulu and supports TNC offices in China, Indonesia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Micronesia, and the Solomon Islands. She co-teaches with Jean Campbell.

PROFESSOR CARL CHRISTENSEN holds an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i. Prior to accepting his current position, Professor Christensen served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (2001-2005) and as Staff Attorney with the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation (1991-2001). He has also been employed as an associate in the Honolulu law firm Burke, Sakai, McPheeters, Bordner, and Gilardy (1990-1991), as a legislative aid to Hawai`i State Representative Bill Pfeil (1986-1987), and as a research zoologist at Honolulu's Bishop Museum (1979 - 1985). Professor Christensen teaches Federal Indian Law and Second Year Seminar.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR HONORABLE DAVID A. EZRA, who received his J.D. from St. Mary’s University, is Chief Judge of the Federal District Court in Hawai‘i and has served on the bench since 1988. Judge Ezra has taught the Federal Courts course at the School of Law for many years. Honolulu Weekly recently commented that “Chief Judge David Alan Ezra has ruled upon some of the most important cases in modern Hawaiian history,” ranging from environmental law to education, constitutional issues, and Native Hawaiian rights.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR LEA HONG received her JD from the William S. Richardson School of Law. She practiced for several years with the Honolulu office of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice). In 1996, she joined the law firm of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, where she co-chairs its environmental and cultural resources law practice group. She was honored in 2004 with Hawai‘i Women Lawyers’ top award, and is consistently listed by Honolulu Magazine as one of Hawai‘i’s “best environmental lawyers.” She has co-taught Environmental Compliance and Regulated Industries, and co-teaches Environmental Litigation Seminar.

PROFESSOR MELODY MacKENZIE, who after receiving her law degree, Professor MacKenzie served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William S. Richardson of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court. In 1980, she joined the staff of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, a public interest law firm protecting and advancing the rights of Native Hawaiians. She served as NHLC's Executive Director from 1982-1986 and as a senior staff attorney from 1986-1992. From 1992-1999, she was the Executive Director of the Hawaiian Claims Office, a state program established to review and make recommendations on claims by Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries. Prof. MacKenzie is project coordinator and chief editor for revisions to the Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook (1991), which she originally edited and helped to write, and is a contributor to the new edition of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Prof. MacKenzie teaches Native Hawaiian Rights, Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic, and Advanced Topics in Native Hawaiian Law.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR STEVEN J. OPPENHEIMER received his JD from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1986 and holds an MS in biology. Prior to becoming an attorney, he was an environmental scientist with the State of New Mexico. Before moving to Hawai‘i, he practiced environmental law in Southern California, where he represented clients on a broad array of compliance issues. Since 2001, he has been Associate General Counsel— Environmental with the Hawaiian Electric Company.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR PAUL SULLIVAN, who received his J.D. from Harvard University, has been a civilian attorney with the Office of the General Counsel of the Navy since 1978. He has worked in Hawai‘i since 1982 and is presently assigned to the staff of the Commander, Navy Region Hawai‘i at Pearl Harbor. His practice concentrates on real estate, business and commercial law, government contracting, and environmental law. He began teaching at the School of Law in Fall 1998, offering a course entitled "Environmental Law and the Military," which examines broad issues of Federal administrative and environmental law through specific examples arising from military land use and operations. paul.m.sullivan@att.net

PROFESSOR DANIEL BODANSKY is internationally recognized as one of the premier authorities on global climate change. He teaches public international law, international environmental law, and foreign affairs and the Constitution. He has served as the climate change coordinator and attorney-advisor at the U.S. Department of State in addition to consulting for the United Nations in the areas of climate change and tobacco control. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the George Washington School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center. Bodansky also clerked for Judge Irving Goldberg of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. He is the recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs, and a Jean Monet Fellowship from the European University Institute in Florence. Bodansky currently serves on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, is co-editor in chief of Kluwer Law International’s book series on International Environmental Law and Policy and is the U.S.-nominated arbitrator under the Antarctic Environment Protocol. In addition, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Society of International Law.

PROFESSOR RICHARD HILDRETH specializes in ocean and coastal law, property, comparative environmental law, land-use law, and water resources law. He actively engages in research and field-work in Oceania and in 1991 was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Law. Among his many publications are "Institutional and Legal Arrangements for Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region," with Maradale Gale in Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues and Approaches and "Australian Coastal Management: A North American Perspective," Environmental & Planning Law Journal 15 (1991).

PROFESSOR STEVE ROADY, attorney with the Earthjustice in Washington D.C., and long-time Adjunct Professor at American University College of Law visited the University of Hawai‘i School of Law during the Fall 2002 semester. Professor Roady taught Domestic Ocean and Coastal Law. Professor Roady, who has litigated several important cases under federal statutes that implement ocean policy, founded the Ocean Law Project (supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts) and served as founding President of Oceana, a non-profit international ocean conservation organization dedicated to protecting life in the sea through public education, advocacy, communications, science and litigation. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Duke University Marine Laboratory at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environmental and Earth Sciences. His experiences also include serving as counsel to a United States Senator on environmental matters in the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works (1989-90) and his private efforts assisting companies in complying with environmental laws. roady@hawaii.edu

PROFESSOR ALISON RIESER visited the School of Law in the 2000-01 academic year as the George M. Johnson Visiting Professor. Professor Rieser is Director of the Marine Law Institute at the University of Maine School of Law and is a prominent expert in marine resource protection, fisheries, ocean pollution, coastal land use, and international maritime relations. While visiting at the School of Law, she taught Domestic Ocean and Coastal Law, a seminar on Fisheries Law, and legal writing. Professor Rieser consults for state and federal agencies, is the faculty advisor to the law student-edited Ocean and Coastal Law Journal, is an active participant in national and international discussions of marine policies, and is co-author of a leading casebook on ocean and coastal law. In 1999, she was selected as a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, the only law professor ever to receive this honor.

PROFESSOR DAN TARLOCK, a Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program in Environmental and Energy Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, visited the School of Law in Spring 2001, teaching property law and legal writing. An internationally recognized expert in environmental law and the law of land and water use, he is the author of the treatise Law of Water Rights and Resources and co-author of four casebooks on water resources and environmental law. Professor Tarlock is a frequent consultant to local, state, federal and international agencies, as well as private groups and law firms, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

PROFESSOR WILLIAM H. RODGERS, Stimson-Bullitt Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law and leading national scholar in environmental law, was the School of Law’s George M. Johnson Visiting Professor in the Fall 1995 semester. In addition to teaching the environmental law survey course and torts, Professor Rodgers shared his expertise with a wide variety of audiences throughout the islands. He took a special interest in the challenges facing native Hawaiians, drawing upon his experience representing Native American tribes to enrich the dialogue and law on native Hawaiian issues.

PROFESSOR CAROL ROSE, the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law at Yale University and renowned scholar in property law, held the School of Law’s Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Law in 1992. Her property law class was such a success that the law students voted her their graduation speaker in 1995.

PROFESSOR DAVID SIVE, often referred to fondly as the “grandfather of modern environmental law,” was the Law School’s Distinguished Visiting Professor in Fall 1987. Drawing upon his experience as a partner in the New York law firm of Sive, Paget and Reisel and his years of teaching at a variety of law schools, Professor Sive taught the environmental law survey course and administrative law.

The Environmental Law Program Faculty: Experience and Commitment

Professor David L. Callies

Professor Jon Van Dyke

Professor M. Casey Jarman Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Professor Denise E. Antolini

Benjamin A. Kudo Chair

The Environmental Law Program Faculty:
Experience and Commitment

Professor M. Casey Jarman
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs