William S. Richardson School of Law Ke Kula Biweekly Newsletter June 2008 No. 1

Faculty Scholarship, Awards and Accomplishments

Denise Antolini's article "National Park Law in the U.S.: Conservation and Conflict" has been accepted for publication in the William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review - January 2009 issue. She selected W&MELPR, because it is a highly regarded environmental law journal. Professor Antolini also presented a paper to 30 Chinese national park managers studying at the East-West Center and visiting U.S. parks from Maine to Hawai’i. The paper analyzes the current status of our national parks and the role of judicial review in maintaining fundamental park values. It will be translated into Chinese for the published proceedings.

John Barkai taught a week-long intensive course on "Basic Civil Mediation" at the University of Idaho's Northwest Institute on May 12-16. In April, he was busy conducting training for Hawai‘i Family Court judges on "Evidence Law, Confrontation, and the Crawford Progeny," and for the Boys and Girls Club of Hawai’i Leadership Institute in Lihue, , on "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution," as well as facilitating the HSBA's ADR Section Roundtable discussion on "Mediating Cases in 's Courts: The Opportunity to Share Best Practices."

Alison Conner’s article "English as a Second Language for Americans?" will appear in the July issue of the Journal of Legal Information. .At the end of May, Professor Conner gave a presentation on "’Don't Change Your Husband’: Marriage and Divorce in Early Chinese Movies" at the Glamour Bar on the Bund in Shanghai, sponsored by Historic Shanghai. In early June she spoke about "Movie Justice? Early Shanghai Movies" at the Universities Service Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as part of USC's seminar series. She also moderated a panel on legal pluralism at the 5th annual meeting of the Asian Law Institute in Singapore in May. The ASLI Conference was attended by over 200 legal academics from universities in Australia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, and Vietnam.

In May, Linda Krieger served as the first scholar-in-residence at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the French national political science graduate school. She gave formal talks about "Reflections sur la diversité et l'anti-discrimination (Reflections on Diversity and Antidiscrimination);" "Ideological Contests in U.S. Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies: Consequences for Antidiscrimination Law and Policy in the United States," and "Perspectives on Antidiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policies in the United States and France. In early June, she presented "Social Cognition and Implicit Bias: Implications for Antidiscrimination Law and Policy," at the Institut National d’Études Démographique.

After presenting two talks at UC Berkeley in March (on legal education and on racial minorities in Japan), Mark Levin presented an additional paper, "Continuities of Legal Consciousness: Professor John Haley’s Writings on Twelve Hundred Years of Japanese Legal History," at the Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies Festschrift for Professor Haley, at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, in May. This talk will be published in the Washington University Global Studies Law Review later this year.

Justin Levinson gave a faculty colloquium presentation, "Memory, Social Cognition, and Decision-Making" at the Haifa University Faculty of Law in Israel.

In the spring, Randall Roth made several presentations to trusts and estates experts: “Fiduciary Responsibility for Trust Officers,” at the 2008 MOKAN Trust Officers Conference, in Kansas City, on May 8, 2008; “Cracks in the System of Charitable Trust Oversight,” at the 2008 Brown Brothers Harriman & Company Gathering of Elite Estate Planners, in Chicago, on April 30, 2008; and “Targets and Players of Investigations and Enforcement Actions,” at the National Attorneys General Program - Charities Law Conference, in New York, on March 28, 2008.

Avi Soifer joined Alison Conner as a moderator of a panel on legal pluralism at the 5th Annual Conference of the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) at the University of Singapore’s Bukit Timah Campus.

Student Scholarship, Awards and Accomplishments

New Scholar Advocates Three new 2Ls have been selected "Scholar Advocates" for the Hawai’i Pilot Scholar Advocacy project of the San Francisco-based Equal Justice Society. They are Kau`i Yamane, Samuel August and Jacy Youn, and they will be working over the summer and fall with Professors Eric Yamamoto and Susan Serrano '98.

Congratulations to our recent graduates who passed the February '08 bar exam! We welcome to the Hawai’i Bar recent graduates who passed the February Bar Exam: Rozelle Antonette Agag '07, Amita Sandhya Aung-Thwin '07, Victoria Mei-Ling Chang '07, Michael Eddie Moses Colon '07, Laura Hokunanai Edmunds '07, Christine Sylvia Pang Furuike '07, Ernesto Montemayor Ganaden '06, Justin Keiichi Ito '07, Nitsa McCarthy '06, Marian Tiare McGuire '07, James Peter Stanton '07, Joshua Brooks Yancey Strickler '07, Samuel King-Long Suen '07, Nicholas Brennan Valter '07, Jefferson Stanley Willard '07, Georgette Anne Yaindl '07, and Thomas Conrad Zizzi '07.

Congratulations to Derek Kauanoe '08 who has been chosen as The Center of Excellence for Native Hawaiian Law 2008-09 Community Outreach Fellow. Derek will begin the fellowship in August. His responsibilities include designing workshops on significant legal issues affecting the Native Hawaiian community, working with high schools and colleges to inform students of opportunities in law, and continuing efforts to support in attending attend law school.

Program Highlights

Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law Receives Federal Funding. Dean Soifer recently announced: “Our Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law received over $1.2 million in federal funding for the forthcoming fiscal year. We all should be very grateful for the terrific work being done by Melody MacKenzie '76 and everyone else at the Center, as well as for the assistance of our congressional delegation in Washington, particularly for the crucial help of Senator Inouye and his staff. The Center just completed a very successful strategic planning retreat, and they are sure to be doing even more and better things than they have already. Please join in congratulating Melody MacKenzie '76, Susan Serrano '98, Kapua Sproat '98, Justin Scott, Carl Christiansen, Lei Seeger, as well as our very much involved students, our advisory board, and everyone else who has helped to make the Center such a great success so quickly. May it go from strength to strength!”

Summer School Starts Monday, June 22nd. The Hawaii Summer Law Program begins June 22 and runs through August 7. This year, the Law School is offering six courses and externships to students from 11 law schools across the mainland as well as UH law students. Daytime courses include "Trusts & Estates" by Professor Randall Roth, "Law & Religion" by Visiting Professor Lisa Roy, from the University of Mississippi; "International Environmental Law" by Visiting Professor Dan Bodansky from the University of Georgia; and "Bioethics and the Law" by Professor Jim Pietsch. Evening courses include "Intellectual Property for Start-up Corporations" by Adjunct Professor Jay Fidell; and "Ethics & Integrity in the Real World" by Visiting Professor William Weinstein. The Summer Externship Director is former Law School Dean, Richard Miller. For questions about the summer program, contact Program Director, Spencer Kimura, at [email protected].

Environmental Law Program Awardees. The Environmental Law Program is pleased to report several successful environmental law student awards and fellowship: Sunny Greer 3L was awarded the Hawai’i State Bar Association Natural Resources Section Diversity Fellowship, and she will be working this summer at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; Leslie Cole 2L received the Environmental Law Society's No Ke `Ola o Ka `Aina summer grant, and she is working at the office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on environmental enforcement; Noah Gibson 2L is this summer's Linnel Nishioka Law Fellow, starting in July at the corporate offices of Hawaiian Electric Co. and focusing on environmental compliance issues; and Kamaile Nichols '08 was selected to serve as the Department of Land and Natural Resources Marine Law Fellow, made possible through grant support from the Harold K. Castle Foundation. She will start her full-time Fellowship in September.

The school congratulates 2008 Mink Fellow Scholar Chasid Sapolu 2L. Lehua Scholar Chasid Sapolu 2L received the Patsy Mink Fellowship and he is working this summer in Washington, D.C. in the office of Senator Inouye. The Patsy Takemoto Mink Legislative Fellowship was created by WSRSL students in 2003 to honor Congresswoman Mink’s legacy. Each year the Fellowship affords a law student interested in public policy and social justice the opportunity to intern in the House or Senate office of a member of the Hawai’i congressional delegation in Washington D.C.

Administration News

Library Transitions. The Center of Excellence for Native Hawaiian Law new strategic plan includes outreach to the Native Hawaiian community and establishing a legal resource library and archive of Hawaiian historical and contemporary materials. Lei Seeger has been temporarily reassigned to lead the Center in this endeavor, while continuing with her other faculty duties. Diane Frake will serve as Interim Director of the Law Library. Diane has been the Public Service Librarian at WSRSL for two years. Prior to joining us, Diane was Associate Library Director at the Vermont Law School, where she worked for 17 years.

Alumni Highlights

Wine Tasting Annual Meeting and Fund Raiser on June 27th at the Plaza Club. It is that time of year again for all alumni to come on down to the Annual Meeting and Wine Tasting at the Plaza Club on June 27, 2008, starting at 5pm. The cost will be $50. Send checks payable to WSRLAA and mail to the Law School at 2515 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822. Please contact Jennifer Hee at 956-5516 or email at [email protected] for more info or to pay by Paypal.

All Class Reunion Planning: Calling All Class Reps! Planning for the All-Class Reunion, scheduled for October 3, 2008 at the Hale Koa Hotel has begun and the Alumni Association is in search of class representatives. Please contact Jim Williston ‘78 at [email protected].

Alumni featured in PBN Article on New Lawyers. Alums Rebecca Dayhuff '07 and Jennifer Tsou '06 were featured in a PBN Article on May 30, 2008, "New Lawyers Seek Jobs with Work-Life Balance." Also quoted was Amy Wiecking '00, the Law School's Director of Career Services. The link is: http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2008/06/02/focus1.html