Welcome Lessons in Life and Law from to the Ninth Issue U.S

Fall 2016-Summer 2017 ISSUE NINE

eFROM THE WILLIAM S.news RICHARDSON SCHOOL OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I 

The Indomitable RBG— Welcome Lessons in Life and Law from to the ninth issue U.S. Supreme Court Justice of the William S. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Richardson School page 2 of Law e-news. To expand student scholarships; to give added life to exceptional teaching, Judge Burns Remembered as research, and service; and ‘Man of Wisdom’ to improve our facilities, page 6 the Law School is dedicated to raising private funds in addition to the public funding it receives. Those interested in contributing to an array of programs should contact ALSO INSIDE: Julie Levine at: julie. Professor Melody MacKenzie Acting Law Training is Key page 36 [email protected] Dean page 9 Scheck, Rosen and ‘Innocence Project’ page 37 or through the Founda- Courtroom Drama Unfolds for High tion’s website at: http:// Schoolers page 10 Fighting Human Trafficking page 39 www.uhfoundation.org/ $7.2 Million Clinical Building Launched Website Reboot for Law Library page 40 page 14 Maxine Burkett Honored for Climate TO REACH THE LAW SCHOOL Student Artists Decorate Barricade page 17 Expertise page 41 FOR GENERAL INFORMATION: Advanced Degree Programs for Foreign 2017 Patsy Mink Scholar page 43 2515 Dole St., Honolulu, and U.S. Attorneys page 20 A Best Says Princeton Review page 44 HI. 96822-2350, The Continuing Significance of Korematsu (808) 956-7966 page 23 Part Time Evening Program Praised page 45 Stories by William S. Richardson School James Pietsch Honored for Community Building ‘Happy Memories’ page 46 of Law Media Consultant Beverly Service page 25 Creamer, unless otherwise noted. Randy Roth Retires page 47 David Callies Wins Prestigious Honor page 26 Photos by Spencer Kimura, Director of Dale W. Lee Retires page 50 LLM and Summer Programs , and UH Law Grads Carry Lowest Debt page 27 Mike Orbito. National Jurist Says UH Law a Top School Cataloguing Jon Van Dyke Papers page 28 page 53

Ulu Lehua Program wins Grant page 29 Oldest Graduating Law Student page 53

‘I Feel Lucky,’ says Newirth ’12 page 31 Largest Graduating Class Ever page 55 Commitment to Global Environment page 33 Naming Opportunities for Clinical Building page 62 Ken Lawson Honored with Regents’ Award page 35

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sky, the gathering of more than 200 law students, faculty, staff, and invited guests rose in a prolonged standing ovation. “I

 The Indomitable RBG – don’t think very many other law schools have the opportunity to bring Supreme Court justices to visit us over several days as our program does,” said Grace Magrud- U.S. Supreme Court Justice er ’17, who was a student in Richardson’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Offers Lessons in Law, and Life

N A WHIRLWIND VISIT to the UH Law School early in February, “affiliate with like-minded people … (and) U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg an- join forces with others who are passion- swered questions and taught law classes, reflected on the huge ate about what you care about. gains by women in equal opportunities since she graduated “There’s not much you can do as a …maybe there from law school in 1959, and gave some pointed advice to the loner,” she said, noting that early in her will“ be wise Justice Ginsburg chats with Professor Mari Matsuda and Professor women law students. career she affiliated herself with the

“There is no better time to be going into the legal profes- American Civil Liberties Union which, by women and men Charles Lawrence of the UH Law faculty. sion,” she told the women. “There are no closed doors to you.” the late 1960s, had grown to be the coun- of both parties

At the same time, she advised all students “to do something try’s leading civil liberties organization. It outside yourself that you feel passionate about.” became her platform as a young attorney who will blow In her comments, Justice Ginsburg the nation’s highest court. Since its begin- During her visit as part of the Jurist in Residence program, and law professor to push for equal rights a whistle and was generous in talking about herself, at ning, the program has brought eight U.S. Justice Ginsburg helped plant a traditional Native Hawaiian ‘ohia lehua tree in the court- for women. “ one point mentioning that she recently Supreme Court Justices and a number of yard of the Richardson School of Law, listened to Professor Melody MacKenzie ‘76 chant As Justice Ginsburg took her seat in say ‘Let’s had a speaking part as the Duchess of leading international jurists to Hawai‘i. an ‘oli of aloha, and, in response to a question, said that the way to affect change is to the Law School courtyard under a sunny stop this Krakenthorp in the opera “Daughter of The program has been generously sup- the Regiment,” admitting, to laughter ported since 2000 by the Case Lombardi nonsense.’ from the audience, that she could perform & Pettit law firm, which Justice Ginsburg only on opening night - “because I have a visited during her stay. This year Karen Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with day job.” and Paul Sullivan created an endowment UH Law Dean Avi Soifer during Justice Ginsburg has long been an to add further support. lunch with the law faculty. avid music and opera fan, and shared her In the course of her interactions with pride that her son is involved in the classi- the Law School community, Justice Gins- cal music recording business. burg avoided commenting on the current Evening Part Time program. “This is a At the same time she spoke with hu- political scene, but she did say that one unique position for a law school.” mor about her presence on the Court. For recent case could end up before the Su- And, in explaining to Justice Ginsburg five years after the retirement of Justice preme Court “pretty soon.” While she did the significance of the ‘ohia lehua planted Sandra Day O’Connor, she said she was not specify to which case she referred, in in her honor, and the importance and my- the single “tiny little woman” amidst eight the midst of her visit to the Law School on thology of kalo in Hawaiian culture, stu- male Justices. When two other women February 9th, the Ninth Circuit Court of dents Sabrina Gramberg ’18, Letani Peltier joined her – Justices Sonia Sotomayor Appeals upheld a ruling against President ’17, and Marcos Bendana ’18 also thanked and Elena Kagan - it helped the balance, Trump’s immigration ban on people from her for honoring the Law School. “The she said. “We’re all over the bench, so we seven primarily Muslim countries. kalo stands for social justice for the Native look like we’re there to stay.” Despite po- Justice Ginsburg spoke about the “col- Hawaiians,” explained Bendana. “You are litical differences, she spoke highly of the legiality” that existed in Congress when like the kalo, standing for social justice.” collegiality of the Court, and mentioned she was confirmed in 1993, when she was Later, listening to the Question and her friendship with the late Justice Anto- appointed by President Bill Clinton. The Answer session with students, attorney nin Scalia. vote in her favor was 96-3, and Sen. Or- Mark Davis said the interchange was im- This was Justice Ginsburg’s third visit rin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican pressive. “It was the Law School at its best to the Richardson Law School as part of in the Senate, was one of her strongest …. The Justice was providing thought- the Jurist in Residence program, estab- supporters. provoking analyses of her cases, and stu- lished in 1987 to offer law students and “I wish I could think of a way to get dents were responding with thought-pro- the community the opportunity to hear back to the way it was,” she said, speaking voking questions.” from and interact with those serving on of that collegiality. “Now we have a dys-

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functional Congress. But at least we know make things better in her community … she said, quoting from a statement by that we could have a legislature of the for those less fortunate.” She repeatedly Martin Luther King Jr. who spoke about kind that the United States should have. stressed the importance of young people the arc of life bending toward justice. And maybe there will be wise women and giving back to their communities. “When I was in law school, there were men of both parties who will blow a whis- In addition to meeting with many law nine women and 500 men in my class, tle and say ‘Let’s stop this nonsense. It’s students, Justice Ginsburg discussed the and only one of the women was African- not doing any good for the United States.’” U.S. Constitution with 210 high school American. When I look at law school Justice Ginsburg also noted that from students from 10 different schools at classes today, we have come a long way.” time to time the Executive has been criti- Mililani High School; joined members of In general today, there are often more cal of the Judiciary, she add- women than men in law ed: “But I feel truly shielded school classes. That com- by the Constitution.” She pares to fewer than 3 percent said Congress can’t retaliate of the legal profession in 1956 against the courts because when Justice Ginsburg start- the protections and tradi- ed law school, when only one tions of judicial indepen- woman had ever served on a dence are well established. federal appellate court. In leading several dif- Justice Ginsburg told the ferent classes at Richardson, students that more than once she reflected on rulings by when she began job hunt- the Court, as well as others ing, she was told: “We had a which led to developments in woman lawyer once and she gender equality, civil rights, was dreadful.” Another com- and criminal law. “The courts mon comment was: “Sorry, don’t lead social change, you have kids to take care of. they’re reactive,” she said. We won’t hire you.” “But they compel a change. Even starting law school In gender equality I think had been a particular chal- that was what happened.” lenge, because she had a young baby, Asked by a student if there were to be Justice Ginsburg told the students. That a new Amendment to the Constitution, created the dilemma of how to manage what would she like it to be, Justice Gins- family and law school long before “work/ burg replied without hesitation. “That’s life balance” concerns had received much

an easy answer. I would add the Equal public notice. And yet she achieved her Rights Amendment. I would like my The courts own kind of balance – going to class dur-

granddaughters to see that basic equality don’t“ lead social ing the day while a nanny cared for the of men and women is fundamental to our baby, and then coming home to feed, care constitutional system.” change, they’re for, bathe, play with and read to the baby, Justice Ginsburg underscored the reactive. But“ before returning to her law books after dramatic changes in opportunity for her child was asleep. women in the United States. In May her they compel a “Each part of my life provided re- granddaughter graduated from Harvard change. spite and renewed energy for the next,” Law School, just as her daughter did a she said. generation ago. Justice Ginsburg herself But it had been her father-in-law who attended Harvard Law but transferred suggested the path that has become one to Columbia Law School, and graduated of the guiding principles of her life. “He from there. said ‘Ruth, if you don’t want to start law “All the doors are open to this grand- school, you have a good reason.’” And daughter of mine,” she said. “No law firm then he added, “But, if you really want to, is going to say ‘I don’t want a woman,’ and the Hawai’i Women Lawyers for Sunday you can reach out and find a way to han- no judge is going to say ‘I don’t want a brunch, and discussed the Court with UH dle the child care.’” woman law clerk.’” undergraduate journalism students. Ginsburg took that to heart. “I did At the same time, she said that her Justice Ginsburg told law students what I thought was important,” she said, granddaughter “knows how important that she considers herself an optimist. “and I found a way to do it.”  it is to do something outside herself, to “I’ve seen such great changes in my life,”

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 Judge James S. Burns – Honored and Remembered As ‘Man of Few Words – and Great Common Sense’

ORE THAN 100 FRIENDS, colleagues, law students, staff and faculty members gath-

ered in the UH Law School courtyard on a sunny April day to honor and memorialize Judge James S. Burns, who was remembered as a humorous and “down-to-earth He put a lot“ of guy,” who treasured his role as a mentor - and gardener - at the Law School. He was, love“ into this in turn, beloved by students and faculty. place. In the shade of the Law School’s tower- ing ti garden that Judge Burns planted and tended for a decade, law students planted new young ti plants in his memory, family members spoke warmly of his humor and sage advice – but only if he was asked for it - and Law Dean Avi Soifer called him “a man of few words - and great common sense.” Journalist and media personality Emme Tomimbang, the widow of Judge Burns, spoke about how he treasured his time at the William S. Richardson School of Law after his retirement as Chief Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals in 2007, and how it had become like a second home. And his daughter, Meredith Burns, an attorney with the National dan, Judge Burns and CJ Richardson had bers of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court, in- Labor Relations Board, spoke of how much he loved his work as a judge, as well as his time played league softball together years ear- cluding Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald, at the Law School. lier with “The Musubi Machine.” and Associate Justices Sabrina McKenna

“He was a terrific pitcher,” Brendan ‘82 and Michael Wilson, as well as retired said of his father, adding, “And the catcher Judge Barbara ‘Bebe’ Richardson, daugh-

was CJ Richardson.” ter of the Law School’s namesake, William Those two leaders had such an impact He would never S. Richardson. Judge Richardson spoke on the community together, said Brendan, tell “you what“ to about how closely the two families are in- turning to address the students, staff, and tertwined and how her father and Judge faculty at the gathering: “You here are all do unless you Burns loved to spend time together and a result of that legacy. He lives on within asked him. with students at the Law School after they The Burns family’s two pets, Dakota and each one of us.” both retired. Montana, with Judge Burns’ son, Brendan As a diverse group of admirers gath- “I’m so happy they’re both together Burns, and his widow, Emme Tomimbang. ered for the service, Brendan spoke lov- in the garden,” she said, referring to the ti ingly of his father as someone who was leaves Judge Burns had planted there from “He put a lot of love into this place,” always there for him, including offering those used in the memorial for her father she said of the Law School, recalling how short, pithy, wise sayings that cut right to when he lay in state at the Law School after Emme Tomim- he had often been there on weekends the heart of the matter. “The one that im- his passing in 2010. bang addresses working in the garden. “He wanted Bill pacted me the most,” he said, “was ‘cool ew, and Haunani Burns, a cousin. Devin Andrew Dedrick of Geobunga and Na- the crowd at Richardson’s school to be lovely.” the memorial head, main thing’ - Keep your cool and do Statts added: “He wanted you to make the tive Farms Hawai‘i in Waimanalo donated ceremony for her The two families had long been close, what you think is best. He would never tell decision, and he would support you 100 the new ti leaves planted in the Judge husband, Judge explained Judge Burns’ son, Brendan you what to do unless you asked him.” percent, no matter what the decision was.” Burns Garden, with arrangements made James S. Burns. Burns, who is the principal at Aina Haina Also in attendance at the ceremony The ceremony dedicating a garden in through Professor Kenneth Leonhardt of

Elementary School. In fact, said Bren- TKTK BY PHOTO were family members Devin Statts, a neph- memory of Judge Burns also drew mem- the Department of Tropical Plant and Soil

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Sciences at UH. They were planted by students Mahesh Cleveland ‘18, Eileen Nims ‘16, Tim Vandeveer ‘17, Letani Peltier ‘17

and Frank Loyd Jr. ’19. The students also  Professor Melody prepared the ground ahead of time for the planting. Judge Burns’ two pet dogs, Montana and Dakota, also attended the ceremony MacKenzie ‘76 Named and Ms. Tomimbang spoke of how they, too, had grieved her husband’s loss in Acting Dean During Dean Avi Soifer’s Fall 2017 their own way. When she brought Judge Burns’ clothes home from the hospital af- Professional Development Leave ter his passing, his favorite dog, Dakota, had pulled each piece out of the bag and carried it out to the garden, spreading his national law affect Native Hawaiian cul- clothing all over the yard he had loved. tural and natural resources. Guitar music was provided by Ata Sa- The Treatise was compiled and edited beron, a friend of the Burns’ family, and by Professor MacKenzie with assistance Spencer Kimura ’96 served as photogra- from executive editors Susan K. Serrano pher, along with Mike Orbito. ’98, and D. Kapua‘ala Sproat ’98. Serrano is director of Research and Scholarship at Ka Huli Ao, and Associate Professor Spro- at is an authority on Hawai‘i water rights and environmental law. Law School Dean Avi Soifer said, “Pro- ROFESSOR MELODY KAPILIALOHA MACK- fessor MacKenzie is the perfect person to ENZIE ‘76 will serve as Acting Dean of the lead the Law School during the semester I William S. Richardson School of Law at am away. She is a true diplomat as well as the University of Hawai‘i during the fall being renowned as a teacher and scholar.” Professor Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie ‘76 semester when Dean Avi Soifer is on a Soifer added, “Melody really loves the professional development leave. Soifer Law School and I am grateful to her for in 1980. From 1982-86 she was Executive will be associated with the NYU School of taking on this role. I have full confidence Director for NHLC, and a senior staff at- Law before he returns in December. in her leadership and I am certain that torney from 1986-1992. In 1992, she was a Professor MacKenzie has been the she will get whatever help she needs from founding member of the Native Hawaiian Director of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excel- members of the faculty and staff and our Bar Association. lence in Native Hawaiian Law since it was students while I am away.” Before joining the Richardson Law created in 2005, originally through a Na- MacKenzie stated, “I am honored to School, Professor MacKenzie served from tive Hawaiian Education Act grant. This have been chosen to fulfill this important 1992-1999 as Executive Director of the academic center at the Law School fo- position while Dean Avi Soifer takes a Hawaiian Claims Office, which was es- cuses on education, scholarship, commu- much deserved leave. I feel a special kule- tablished to review claims by Hawaiian nity outreach and collaboration on issues ana to ensure that Chief Justice Richard- Home Lands beneficiaries, and to make of law, culture, and justice for Native Ha- son’s vision for the Law School is fulfilled recommendations to the state. waiians and other Pacific and Indigenous and I am grateful for the opportunity to In 2006 MacKenzie received the peoples. support and advance that vision.” Lifetime Achievement Award from the MacKenzie is also Editor-in-Chief and Professor MacKenzie earned her BA, Hawai‘i Women Lawyers, and in 2013 she the lead author of Native Hawaiian Law: cum laude, from Beloit College in Wiscon- was awarded a UH Regents’ Medalist for A Treatise (2015), considered the defini- sin, and her JD from Richardson in 1976 Excellence in Teaching. Professor MacK- tive resource for understanding critical as a member of the first graduating class enzie is a contributing author for the lat- legal issues affecting the Native Hawaiian of about 50 students when the fledgling est edition of Felix S. Cohen’s Handbook community. This 1,400-page volume was Law School was still housed in temporary of Federal Indian Law, and the author of 15 years in the making and touches on ev- quarters in the UH Quarry. many other publications. She teaches erything from traditional and customary After graduation she clerked for Chief Native Hawaiian Rights, Federal Indian rights, to self-determination, to securing Justice Richardson at the Hawai‘i Su- Law, and Second Year Seminar Legal Photos of Judge James Burns during his decade as a mentor at the Law School. Above: Law school graduates Eileen Nims ’16 and Tim Vandeveer ’17 plant new ti plants in the Judge James Burns garden at the Law School. land titles, and it provides detailed expla- preme Court, and then joined the staff of Writing, as well as specific courses in Na- nations of how local, national, and inter- the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation tive Hawaiian law. 

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The high school students and their mentors have lunch downtown, hosted by the Case Lombardi & Pettit law firm.

Above: High school students in the Law & Justice Summer Program talk with Hawai‘i Supreme Court Justices at the Supreme Court. At right: Students are exultant after their mock trial.

 The Thrill of Courtroom Drama Unfolds In Law School’s High School Summer Program

HE EXCITEMENT IN THE COURTROOM was pal- legal system here, the laws of their coun- pable. The ‘father’ pounded the stand in front try, and what it might be like to go to Law of himself and demanded justice for his daugh- School after college. ter. The ‘plaintiff’ cried. The ‘attorneys’ stood “This program really opened my eyes and yelled objections. The ‘judge’ agreed. Or to so many possibilities,” said Samantha disagreed. And finally, the ‘jury’ came back Steenhuis, a 17-year-old rising senior from with a verdict – finding for both the ‘plaintiff’ Kaiser High School. “It has been an amaz- and the ‘defendant’ on separate trial issues. ing experience. I really wanted to know A cheer went up, people leaped from their more about law and I thought it would seats, and the audience applauded. be fun to be in their (attorneys’) shoes for It was the final day of the annual “Law & awhile.” Justice Summer Program” offered by Richard- This is the third summer the unique son Law School that included a mock trial exercise for 13 rising juniors and seniors from program has been offered, funded both six Hawai‘i public high schools. The mock trial completed a week-long glimpse into the by the UH Law School and a number of

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law firms, as well as several UH commit- some,” said Dale W. Lee who recently re- hear firsthand from law students why tees and law student organizations, plus tired from UH Law School as the Director they chose to go to law school. They

the Hawai‘i Bar Foundation. The high of Professional Development & Extern- also receive certificates of completion Above: High school schools involved included: Farrington, ship Programs, but returned to serve as from Hawai‘i Chief Justice Mark Reck- students wrestle with the courtroom

Kaiser, McKinley, Nanakuli, Waianae, and ‘judge’ for the program’s mock trial. “To tenwald, who makes a special trip to details; Below: Waipahu. It just showed watch you do this, and to think you’re all the Law School to honor the students’ They are elated at In the mock trial, the 16- and 17-year- high school students, is just amazing. You achievement. how real law“ is in the final result. olds, plus their law student mentors, “ all did terrifically.” For 16-year-old Waipahu student played the roles of everyone in what could every aspect of During the program each year stu- Jesstine Kahauolopua, being able to be a real courtroom drama, including wit- our lives dents meet legislators at the State Capitol, meet the Hawai‘i Supreme Court Jus- nesses, attorneys, and jurists, as well as sit in on a real courtroom trial, ‘talk story’ tices in the Supreme Court chambers plaintiff and defendant, bringing home with Justices of the Hawai‘i Supreme was a high point. “I felt so privileged a powerful experience of how justice Court, visit the Governor’s office, have to be able to walk in and sit down,” she works. lunch downtown at a law firm, are men- said. “It was such an honor to meet the “What you’ve done here is pretty awe- tored by law faculty and law students, and justices.” For Michael Bucao, 16, also from Waipahu High, the downtown day was particularly impressive. “It just showed how real law is in every aspect of our lives,” said Bucao. “It made me more interested in how I can get to where I want to be.” While the experience was enlight-

What you’ve “ help your community,” she said. done“ here Kenory Khuy ’19 shared is pretty her history as the child of Cam- bodian refugees and how that awesome. had affected her decision. “The older I got, the more I wanted to learn about how I could help others going through the same process,” said Khuy. “I need to validate the risks my family took,” she added. ening for the high school students, it Caitlin Moon ‘19 noted that she’s in the “And, as a first generation in the was also valuable for their law student joint JD/MBA program, which means she U.S. I want to know I can totally compete.” mentors. As several explained the impact can earn both law and business degrees in The program is directed by Associate Law School has had on their lives, a com- a four-year period. Moon said she chose Faculty Specialist Liam Skilling ’07, Direc- mon theme emerged – that of being able that after a CFO told her that having a law tor of the Evening Part Time Program and to work at an important profession, but degree would have been valuable simply Academic Success at the UH Law School. also being able to serve their communities for the ability to quickly understand the Along with Case Lombardi & Pettit, which at the same time. large numbers of contracts he needed hosted lunch for the students, law firms “You can actually make a living and to review as a financial officer. Although that assisted in funding the program in- also do things to help other people,” Ma- Moon had already begun an MBA, she cluded: Bays Lung Rose & Holma, Dee- hesh Cleveland ’18 told the high school was able to join the joint program. ley King Pang & Van Etten, and Imanaka The law student mentors, faculty members and high school students discuss the mock trial case during the ‘jury’ decision. students. “It allows you to help others in “Law has opened up my eyes in so Asato.  the areas you’re interested in.” many other ways to show that you can

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 Hawai‘i Law School Launches $7.2 Million Clinical Building to Expand Training and Pro Bono Service

law schools, Richardson is consistently space will be dedicated to programs to recognized as one of the country’s most serve the most at-risk populations.” affordable, most diverse, and as a school More than a decade in the planning, whose students incur the least amount the Clinical Building will provide space of debt. for training in trial skills and advocacy, The new building – expected to open as well as expanding the Law School’s in time for the Spring 2018 semester - was community outreach work through clin- launched in a ceremony featuring tradi- ics and pro bono service by students. As tional Native Hawaiian chants and com- mentary from many Hawai‘i dignitaries, Native Hawaiian cultural dance teacher, Mapuana- de Silva of Halau- Mohala ‘Ilima, right, and Richardson Law School Professor Melody including Governor David Ige, UH Presi- Kapilialoha MacKenzie, offer traditional Hawaiian blessings for the new building. dent David Lassner, and UH Board of Re- gents chair Jan Sullivan. HE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I LAW SCHOOL “This is about real world practical broke ground last fall for a new $7.2 mil- training which will make our students the students themselves – students have pro- dent Lassner spoke with pride about

lion Clinical Building that will expand of- best in the world,” Governor Ige told the This is about vided more than 100,000 hours of free as- the university’s “small but mighty” Law ferings for student clinics at the William S. assembled guests, faculty, students, and real“ world sistance to people in need under the guid- School - with the most diverse student

Richardson School of Law, while also pro- alumni during a festive celebration that ance of lawyer mentors. body and faculty among American law

viding more far-reaching pro bono service took place adjacent to the existing Law practical training In an especially moving part of schools, as well as among those with the to the community focusing on the elderly, School building in the space where the which will make the very upbeat hour-long ceremony, lowest tuition and debt carried by gradu-

“ This building families living in poverty, veterans, and at- Clinical Building will rise. “I’m certain our students Māpuana de Silva of Hālau Mōhala ‘Ilima, ates. In a recent “Short List,” Richardson risk youth. One of the country’s smallest that CJ Richardson would be proud this a Native Hawaiian cultural dance studio, couldn’t“ be more was named by U.S. News as among the the best in the and Richardson Professor Melody Ka- important“ to nation’s 10 best law schools where start- world. pilialoha MacKenzie, walked barefoot ing salaries exceed the debt that gradu- along a thick chalk mark that outlined the services we ates carry. the building’s perimeter, sprinkling wa- “This is truly an outstanding Law ter with a ti leaf from a koa wood bowl, provide. School and one of the gems of our uni- offering a traditional blessing. Garbed in versity,” Lassner added. “And this build- flowing Hawaiian kikepa, they chanted ing is about increasing our connections to honor the spirit of the building, and with the community.” UH Board of Re- part of their graduation requirement, the spirit of CJ Richardson whose son, gents chair Sullivan, a graduate of the students must provide at least 60 hours William “Billy” Richardson, told the Law School class of 1983 – who attended of free legal assistance in areas of their assembled guests that his father “would the school when it was still housed in interest, but many students provide far be proud.” of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court. Under his temporary quarters – noted that the UH more. Since the pro bono requirement be- “This Clinical Building will not only leadership, the Court validated much of Law School has surpassed the hopes of its gan in the early 1990s – inspired by law enhance our students, but also allow customary Hawaiian law within the le- founders, and has never lost its values. “It them to get better hands-on training in gal framework of western statutes. It was instills a sense of values and purpose in its the real world,” said Richardson, who is Richardson’s vision to build a Law School graduates,” she said. an attorney and entrepreneur. that would serve the people of Hawai‘i, Law Dean Avi Soifer and Associate An architectural rendering of the $7.2 million Clinical Building that will expand the Hawai‘i The late CJ Richardson – the school’s but would also draw students from Dean Denise Antolini pointed out that Law School’s outreach to vulnerable members of namesake - was a Lieutenant Governor around the world to study in a compas- the new building will fulfill the original the community, including veterans, the elderly, families living in poverty, and at-risk youth. of the State of Hawai‘i in the 1960s and sionate and caring environment. dream of its namesake who had envi-

PHOTO BY TKTK BY PHOTO later served for 16 years as Chief Justice During the ceremony, UH Presi- sioned three buildings for Hawai‘i’s only

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 UH Student Artists Define – and Decorate - The Clinical Building’s Construction Barricade

LL IT TOOK WAS 168 FEET of blank plywood barriers, twist,” noted Professor Chan. talented art students, a law firm willing to donate Three women envisioned the project: funding, and a desire to beautify a construction bar- Associate Law Dean Denise Antolini, who ricade around the new building going up at the UH launched the idea; campus architect Sha- Law School. ron Ching Williams, who chairs the Cam- The result is a brilliantly colored, block-long pus Art Advisory Committee that oversaw original street painting that showcases the Univer- it; and Professor Chan, who inspired her sity of Hawai‘i’s art students, surrounds a construc- students to take on a new challenge. tion project with unique artistry, and has created “I think it’s really fun for the students new connections and inspiration across campus. to do something that reflects that this is “This is one way to expand the curriculum - their campus,” said Williams. “Gaye called and it pushed the students’ boundaries,” said Professor Gaye Chan, chair of the UH Art it ‘Art-at-Large’ and pulled the concept Department whose students took the challenge to paint the wooden barricade that has together and asked her artists if they’d be Hawai‘i Governor David Ige, University of Hawai‘i President David Lassner, William S. Richardson School of Law Dean Avi Soifer, and been shielding construction – and dust – from the new Clinical Building rising in a sec- interested and they said ‘Yes!’ and it was Honolulu attorney Mark Davis help break ground for the new Clinical Building tion of the parking lot adjacent to the Richardson Law School. great. It’s been just a very heartwarming Thirteen student artists took the challenge to work on a scale few had ever tackled experience.” before. They found it a tough but exhilarating experience that connected them more Once the proposal was approved by law school, with the third building on a “Your response has been extraor- ing for the building, and Student Bar As- fully to their college community and to the Honolulu community. the Art Advisory Committee, Ching Wil- portion of the parking lot, now dedicated dinary,” Davis told the crowd, naming sociation President and Board of Regents “It was cool to see random strangers talking about it,” said artist Ira Villafranca. “It liams’ husband, attorney Allen Williams to serving people most in need. The new many who had also committed funds for Student Member Brandon Marc Higa ’19, was a good experience.” Sheanae two-story building, to be connected to the the building, including the Cades Schutte the gathering moved to a mound of earth Tam, whose mural shows three existing Law School by a second-story law firm that has committed $500,000; edged by lawa‘i fern for the official Ō‘ō fish on ice at the fish auction - a walkway, will add more than 8,000 square Attorney Brook Hart, who is supporting Ceremony. sight she often saw growing up feet of space to enhance the school’s 10 the Hawai‘i Innocence Project at the Law Dean Soifer and building project in a family of fishermen - added: clinical programs. School; and others, including donors and leader Antolini called the groundbreak- “It was a challenge to go that big Funding for the building was ap- advocates Diane Ono, Ted Pettit, Walter ing an incredible day for the Law School, and at that scale. I felt a little like proved in 2013 by the State Legislature Kirimitsu, Elliott H. Loden of Loden and its students, and for the people it serves a zoo animal: people were taking for a $7 million package of bonds that in- Conahan, and the Harriet Bouslog Labor in the community. “This building couldn’t photos from their cars!” cluded $3.5 million in general obligation Scholarship Fund. “So many people have be more important to the services we pro- Taylor Johnson’s stark and bonds backed by the state, and authori- come forward to support this project,” vide,” said Soifer. “We see this building dramatic houses on stilts – the zation for $3.5 million in revenue bonds Davis said. “People who support this as a building for people who help others depiction of an abandoned Alas- backed by the Law School’s own funding, will have their names enshrined in per- and our students come here to learn to kan village – also drew consid- through a combination of tuition and phi- petuity.” do that.” erable interest. “I got a sense lanthropy. Additional costs cover building At its January 2017 meeting, the UH Antolini thanked many in the audi- of community,” says Johnson. contingencies, furniture, and technology. Board of Regents approved donor nam- ence for the important roles they played “People (watching the students The Law School had raised about ing options for areas in the new struc- in making the Clinical Building possible. paint) were excited all the time.” $2 million in gifts as part of that com- ture. Naming opportunities are also avail- “CJ Richardson had the vision for an- Meanwhile, Tommy Hite merged mitment earlier this year, with the Davis able for areas of the existing Law School other building on this spot,” she told the swirling graphic street art de- Levin Livingston law firm and its Foun- building and Law Library. assemblage, noting that it will provide signs with realism that included dation committing a $1 million leader- After brief remarks from other dig- a home for the community that will be vehicles on a Honolulu street. Associate Dean Denise Antolini, left, with the student art team and faculty that painted the construction barricade. ship gift. At the groundbreaking, attorney nitaries, including Rep. Scott Nishimoto “a vibrant, welcoming, and professional “His windshield reflection of a Mark Davis praised many other generous ’02, who was instrumental in obtaining space” for students and the community sunset sky is a beautiful original donors among the assembled guests. legislative authorization and partial fund- for years to come. 

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of the Trecker & Fritz law firm, stepped but we can’t do big,” notes Chan. “With deliver a visual and conceptual plan in a up with $2,000 from his office to pay for Alina, when she walked across the street way that works,” said Chan. supplies. The law firm is already work- to look at the figure, she said the image Many of the paintings have already ing with the Law School to endow a space ‘isn’t reading,’ and she had to figure out become favorite spots for passersby to in the new building when construction how to solve that issue. take selfies. And Chan noted that because is finished in time for the Spring 2018 “Every artist had to figure out how to of the mural Boz Schurr painted, Schurr semester. (Opportunities to endow ar- was offered a commission to do a gigantic eas in the new building are still available Kaka‘ako mural. through Julie Levine, Executive Director For Law School Associate Dean Anto- UNDER

of Development for the Law School. She lini – who has nurtured the Clinical Build- may be reached at (808) 956-8395.) ing project from its beginnings more than CONSTRUCTION For Chan, the project was a resound- a decade ago - the student artists gave an

ing success for her students, and for the extraordinary gift to the Law School, to UH community. She remembers how art- It was cool to UH, and to the larger community. Even ist Alina Kawai would walk across Dole see random“ street artists from POW!WOW! got in- Street to see how her painting of a figure “ volved, she said. against a dark night sky worked from a strangers talking “Thanks to your artists,” Antolini told distance, and how she might need to make about it. Chan during an informal party to honor it more defined. Being able to work on a the artists after the murals were complete, grand scale, said Chan, gave all of the art- “this has been one of the coolest places to ists new perspectives. be – the Law School driveway!” “We can do small (in the classroom)

Student artists were honored at a party outside the Law School as construction began on the new Clinical Building. Photos show some of the new building’s evolution.

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quality of legal scholarship at the Law said Minara Mordecai, director of Spe- courses to support students in preparing School.” cial Projects at the William S. Richardson their dissertation proposals and launch- “These programs allow attorneys School of Law at UH. “We are positioned ing their research. The goal is for students

 New Advanced Degree from all over the world to continue their at an intersection of cultures, and that of- to submit finished dissertations by the legal training in Hawai‘i, and it gives them fers a tremendous opportunity.” end of their third year. the flexibility to remain here or go back The SJD requires only one year in res- “We have had people writing to us to Programs at UH Law to practice law in their own countries,” idence at Richardson, with seminars and ask if we offer the SJD because they’d like Open to Foreign and U.S. Attorneys

HE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I LAW SCHOOL has established two new programs in advanced legal studies aimed primarily at foreign-trained attorneys - but with the doctoral program also available to U.S. attorneys hoping to spend time on legal research projects. The AJD – Advanced or Accelerated Juris Doctor - offers advanced standing to foreign-trained applicants, and allows them to earn the JD degree in as little as two years of study rather than three, with the option of taking a U.S. bar exam after graduating, and being admitted to practice in the United States. The SJD - Doctor of Juridical Science - is primarily intended for those who have completed a JD or an LLM program, and who already teach, or are preparing to teach law outside the United States. It is also designed for those involved in policy work in research institutes and government organizations. Professor Tae-Ung Baik, director of the new SJD program who also was on the Richardson Law School com- By offering mittee that developed the new degree, called both advanced degree programs this “degree, we tremendous options for those seeking join the most further legal training to enhance their legal careers virtually anywhere in the prestigious law

world. schools while we “We are confident that the SJD

program will provide a great oppor- also enhance the tunity for international legal prac- experience of titioners who want to deepen their all our students“ Members of UH Law School’s knowledge in order to pursue teach- SJD team; from left, Professors ing careers in their home countries,” from across the Tae-Ung Baik, Carole Petersen said Baik, a Korean law specialist who and Alison Conner, with Special is also a member of the U.N. Working globe. Projects Director Minara Mor- Group on Enforced or Involuntary Dis- decai, LLM Director Spencer appearances. Kimura ’96, and law librarian Keiko Okuhara. Baik is the new “As well,” noted Baik, “the program Program Director. will contribute to the already high

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to do it with us,” noted Professor Alison are ideal compliments to Richardson Law Conner, a China law specialist and direc- School’s existing LLM program, which tor of International Programs at the UH was launched in 2003, has already attract- THE NEW SJD IN A

Law School, who envisioned both the ed 143 attorneys from 52 countries, and NUTSHELL:  National Security and AJD and the SJD programs and chaired was recently recognized as one of the best • Students who have completed the seven-member Law School Planning in the nation in three categories by The either a JD or LLM may apply for this advanced degree. Committee that developed the specifics of International Jurist magazine. the SJD. The journal gave the Richardson LLM • Offers the time for advanced legal Democratic Liberties: Committee members included Pro- program an A+ for its Academic Offerings, research or research on policy issues. fessors Baik, David Cohen, Diane Desi- and two ‘As’ for being among the schools • Cost is $1,200 per credit, with 16 The Continuing Significance of Korematsu erto, and Carole Petersen, as well as LLM offering the ‘Best Law School Experience’ credits the first year and 1 credit per Director Spencer Kimura ’96, librarian and for ‘Career Support.’ In each of the semester in subsequent years. BY PROFESSOR ERIC K. YAMAMOTO Keiko Okuhara, and Special Projects Di- three categories it was among the top 10 • Offers an important credential for The Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice at Richardson School of Law rector Mordecai. in the nation. those who wish to teach law outside “A number of LLMs have said they At its June 2017 meeting, the UH the U.S. for both foreign-trained at- would like to do a research degree,” con- Board of Regents agreed with the Law torneys and American citizens. tinued Connor, “but because we didn’t of- School’s request to reduce tuition for the • Requires just a year in residence at LLM program by approximately one- Richardson, with the expectation that third, making the program much more af- the dissertation will be completed in fordable. The program now will be more three years. accessible for American as well as foreign attorneys, and will help encourage THE NEW AJD IN A students to continue their advanced law studies at Richardson. NUTSHELL: A host of international legal academ- • Provides another option for

These programs foreign-trained attorneys who want to ics have lauded the two new programs, get a grounding in American law, and allow“ attorneys calling the new SJD an innovation that then to have the option of practicing establishes Richardson Law School as a law in the United States.

from all over desirable destination particularly for at- • Foreign-trained attorneys may VEN THOUGH THE WORLD WAR II Japa- torneys seeking global credentials. the world to receive up to one year’s credit toward nese-American internment was “wrong,” “ Russell Leu, vice dean and professor a JD for their foreign law training. the late Justice Antonin Scalia proclaimed continue their of law at Beijing Foreign Studies Universi- • The degree enables foreign at- in 2014 during a visit to the William S. ty’s School of Law, notes that China’s gov- legal training in torneys to take a U.S. bar exam and Richardson School of Law, “you are kid- ernment policy “favors and supports Chi- practice anywhere in the U.S. ding yourself if you think the same thing Hawai‘i. na’s law graduates to pursue SJD degrees will not happen again.” at U.S. law schools,” pointing out that the Applications are being accepted for both the SJD and the AJD programs, government also makes funds available as well as for the LLM program. for study abroad to develop and increase For the AJD, email: lawajd@hawaii.edu the number of qualified law professors For the SJD go to: [email protected] in China’s 624 law schools. Leu said the And for the LLM go to: kimurasp@ hawaii.edu option of an SJD program at Richardson fer it, they had to go somewhere else.” definitely increases chances to attract stu-

While the SJD is particularly attrac- dents from China.

tive to foreign-trained attorneys, Connor Hawai‘i Supreme Court Chief Jus- The coram nobis points out that it is not limited to those tice Mark Recktenwald added that the we also enhance the experience of all our from outside the U.S. and is also available new programs will bolster Richardson students from across the globe. We have cases“ showed no to those who earned their JD degrees in Law School’s many strengths, including a remarkably broad and deep faculty with bona fide“ the U.S. enhancing the LLM program. He also particular expertise in international law, “We now offer three possible pro- stressed that Hawai’i’s diversity makes comparative law, indigenous law, envi- national security grams for residents – the LLM, and now the Law School particularly attractive for ronmental law, business law, and the law justification. the SJD and the AJD, which is really a foreign-trained lawyers from countries of countries in Asia and the Pacific – all JD degree doable in two years because it throughout the world. of which are of increasing importance grants some credit for foreign law study,” Richardson Law Dean Avi Soifer throughout the world.” Professor Eric Yamamoto said Connor. noted: “By offering this degree, we join The two new advanced law programs the most prestigious law schools while

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Justice Scalia envisioned a politically followed with the Civil Liberties Act the courts should acquiese, even when driven mass exclusion or segregation of of 1988, apologizing and conferring government has not shown “pressing Muslims in America. Noting that “in times reparations. public necessity” and even when consti-

of war, the laws fall silent,” he also intimat- Although discredited by judges and tutional liberties are denied.  Professor James Pietsch- ed that, when challenged, the government scholars, the original Supreme Court Ko- would rely upon the U.S. Supreme Court’s The challenge: This dissonance about 1944 Korematsu decision as a discredited the continuing significance ofKorematsu but still-standing precedent for the forced raises pressing present-day questions for ‘Mr. Elder Law’— removal and possible incarceration of an a constitutional democracy committed to ethnic or religious group. both security and the rule of law. Honored with UH Award for Distinguished Community Service Justice Scalia’s remarks presciently What will happen when those pro- channeled the political climate that de- filed, detained, harassed or discriminated veloped in late 2015. Republican presi- How will the against in the name of national security AW PROFESSOR James H. Pietsch, an authority dential electioneering upped the ante: turn to the courts for legal protection? on elder law and veterans issues at the Wil- Candidates called for total exclusion of U.S.“ courts How will the U.S. courts respond to the liam S. Richardson School of Law, has been Muslims at the borders, broad surveil- respond to the need to both promote security and pro- honored with the University of Hawai‘i’s pres- lance and “sequester” within the United tect fundamental democratic values of tigious Robert W. Clopton Award for Distin- States, and even torture of Muslim terror need to both our political process — that people are to guished Community Service for 2017. suspects. promote security be treated fairly and equally? Pietsch, who heads the UH Elder Law

Harassment, discrimination, and and protect We have some insight based on recent Program and holds a joint appointment as intimidation intensified. Several policy- court rulings, including the Ninth Cir- an Adjunct Professor of Geriatric Medicine

makers invoked the internment — and by fundamental cuit’s refusal to lift the lower court’s ban & Psychiatry at the John A. Burns School of implication Korematsu — as legal justifica- democratic on enforcement of the exclusion and re- Medicine, has played a leadership role in or- tion for sweeping government security removal executive order. But final determi- “ ganizing regular public workshops that pro- strictions targeting both immigrants and values of our nations, ultimately by the Supreme Court, vide important information to elders, veterans, and their caregivers. He also has co- citizens. And President Donald Trump’s political are uncertain. At stake are both the lives authored a series of handbooks that go into detail about end-of-life and aging issues, controversial January 2017 Muslim ex- and families of those targeted and the ten- and the handbooks are provided free throughout the community. clusion orders are transforming campaign process… or of American society itself. Since 1991 Pietsch has led the Elder Law Clinic at the UH Law School, serving rhetoric into political reality — with peo- more than 10,000 vulnerable elders and their caregivers since then. He regularly up- ples’ lives and families at stake. The insights: Perhaps we can draw dates the free accessible handbook he co-authored with his assistant, Lenora H. Lee, dual insights from these challenging covering a broad spectrum of elder care issues. He also has developed an international The court cases: The military neces- times. The first is the seriousness of terror reputation for his scholarly articles and his witty presentations across the globe. Professor James Pietsch sity pillars of the 1944 Supreme Court threats - officials need to respond swiftly Dean Avi Soifer called Pietsch a backbone of the Law School and praised his long- Korematsu decision, which legalized the in apprehending perpetrators and ratio- standing Elder Law Clinic and his more recent Veterans Clinic. mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese rematsu decision has yet to be overruled nally in taking grounded pro-active steps “He has focused his efforts on assisting our state’s elderly and disabled, disen- Americans, have been undercut by the in subsequent decisions by the Supreme to prevent future violence. The second is franchised, abused, and socially and economically needy residents,” said Soifer. “He is 1980s Korematsu, Hirabayashi and Ya- Court. And some politicians and promi- the simultaneous importance of prevent- known as ‘Mr. Elder Law’ for inaugurating this specialized field of law in Hawai‘i, and sui coram nobis reopenings. These cases nent judges maintain, “Korematsu was ing politically driven government over- his stellar reputation in the medical, social work, and legal communities places him at showed no bona fide national security correctly decided.” Indeed, the Justice reactions that scapegoat and harshly treat the nexus for legal and ethics consultation on the multiple complex issues that arise at justification. They also demonstrated Department, in defending the current ex- entire groups without solid grounding in the end of life.” egregious government fraud on the Court ecutive order, asserted Korematsu’s prin- actual “pressing public necessity.”  In nominating Pietsch for the Clopton Award, Soifer also cited Pietsch’s work in and the American populace in attempting ciple (without citing the case) that when Iraq, in particular as a pro bono legal adviser to the military in establishing Rule of Law to legally justify the internment. Congress the government asserts national security, initiatives to provide fair treatment for detainees and protections for judges and lawyers who realistically feared for their own lives. “At considerable personal risk and with no compensation, Jim served in 2007 as a Special Advisor to the Law and Order Task Force, established by the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Multinational Force Iraq,” wrote Soifer. “Later he would return as a Rule of Law Advisor to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team and the Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team in the Kurdistan region of Iraq from DID YOU KNOW? 2007 to 2009.” Two Hawai‘i events commemorated the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive order 9066:

* February 23 - Legal forum at Richardson Law School. * February 24 - Roundtable panel at Judiciary History Center at the Supreme Court Building.

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 UH Law Professor  High Financial Aid— David L. Callies to be And Lowest Debt At UH Law School, the financial help and students may serve as research assis- Honored with Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize in October is generous. It is possible for law students tants to Law School faculty members. to structure their financing to receive as • STAR scholarships through the UH much as $9,000 to $10,000 or more an- Foundation range from $1,000 to $2,500. ROFESSOR DAVID L. CALLIES of the William S. nually through a combination of need- • Incoming first-year students are Richardson School of Law will receive the 2017 based grants; scholarships managed by also eligible for $5,000 merit scholar- Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize in October the UH Foundation and the Law School ships awarded by the Admissions Office. from the William & Mary Property Rights Project. Admissions Office; and the federal work/ Callies will receive this prestigious prize during the study program. The comparatively low “It’s definitely possible for incoming Project’s 14th annual conference to be held at Wil- annual in-state tuition for 2015-16 was students to have the merit scholarship liam & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, $20,880, with out-of-state tuition set at and the need-based grant, which com- on October 12-13. $42,384. bine to total around $9,000 a year,” said The prize is named in honor of the lifetime Students are also eligible to borrow White. contributions to property rights of Toby Prince RADUATES FROM THE William S. Rich- up to $20,500 annually in direct low At Richardson Law School, approxi- Brigham and Gideon Kanner, and it is presented ardson School of Law carried the least interest unsubsidized federal loans, al- mately 100 of the total of 305 JD students annually to a scholar, practitioner, or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental im- amount of law school debt among 183 though many at Richardson do not bor- portance of property rights. Recently it has gone to legal scholars from Harvard, Yale, ranked U.S. law schools, according to a row the full amount.

Columbia, and the University of Michigan. Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day 2016 survey by U.S. News & World Report. Law Dean Avi Soifer has often point- O’Connor was a recipient in 2011. Average debt for 2015 UH Law School ed out that Richardson Law School offers

Callies, a prolific scholar whose work explores land use, property, and state and graduates who took out loans to pay for an exceptional legal education at a very local government law, has lectured around the world and written or collaborated on their legal education was $54,988. That reasonable cost. Said Soifer: “Not only do more than 90 articles and 20 books. He has been a member of the American Law Insti- was less than half the average debt na- we offer an absolutely first-rate educa- tute since 1990 and he holds the Benjamin A. Kudo Chair at the University of Hawai‘i. tionally among all the law schools that tion, but our graduates are not saddled We really “ are Prior to entering academia, he was an attorney in private practice and an assistant Professor David L. Callies submitted data. with debilitating debt. Richardson stu- an “affordable state’s attorney. The average debt nationally for grad- dents thrive in an unusually supportive Callies gained fame as a leading expert on land use and development in Hawai‘i uates from those schools was $112,748. and encouraging environment. We take option… early in his distinguished career, said Lynda L. Butler, Chancellor Professor of Law at ing prizewinner, David Callies repre- “This goes to show that we really are financial assistance very seriously, and William & Mary Law School and director of the school’s Property Rights Project, but sents the best of the law’s academic and an affordable option for law school,” said we help students to structure their fi- his research interests have become truly international in scope and encompass land practice sides.” Cyrelle White, the UH Law School Fi- nancing carefully to make their dreams use control, eminent domain, and sustainable development in numerous other coun- Michael Berger, a partner in the Los nancial Aid Manager in 2014-16. “It also of law school and leadership as alumni a tries. Butler noted that the annual Brigham-Kanner conference has been held in China Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phil- shows that our students are making re- reality.” and in The Hague as well as in Virginia. lips, who received the Brigham-Kanner ally smart financial decisions.” Financial Aid Management was as- UH Law Dean Avi Soifer called the prize “a much-deserved honor for Professor Prize in 2014, called Callies “one of the U.S. News released the latest law sumed by Heather L.C. Smith-Lee in fall are receiving need-based grants that do Callies” that not only resonates in legal circles, but in the wider business community. brightest stars in the constitutional school debt information as one of its 2016 when Cyrelle White relocated to It- not have to be repaid, and 70 received “David Callies brings tremendous breadth to our offerings in business and land law,” property rights firmament.” His lengthy “short list” surveys, compiling a list of aly with her husband, who is in the mili- scholarships through the UH Founda- said Soifer, “and his presence within this constellation of prizewinners speaks to the academic career, Berger said, “has been the 10 most cost effective law schools. tary. Smith-Lee returns to Hawai‘i after tion during this past year, with 10 stu- importance of his scholarship. Our students are very fortunate to be receiving world- festooned with scholarly explorations Of the 10 schools listed in which several years as a program consultant for dents awarded work/study grants each class instruction in the complex areas in which he excels, from one of the world’s great of property law that have enriched the graduates borrowed the least, the aver- a private tutoring company in New York. year. A number of incoming first-year experts.” scholarly literature and influenced age debt was $62,735. She was formerly admissions and web students received $5,000 merit scholar- Callies is renowned as a “scholar, teacher, lawyer, mentor,” according to Robert H. the way that courts have viewed the The survey also showed that gradu- coordinator for Richardson. ships from funds donated by Law School Thomas, an attorney and director at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert in Honolulu. law. When I learned that he was to be ates from the class of 2015 at Thomas The financial support at Richardson faculty members, which are renewable “For four decades, David Callies has shaped property law, and the practice of property this year’s honoree, all I could do was Jefferson School of Law had the most breaks down like this: for their second and third years. law, as a legal scholar, practitioner, and advocate,” said Thomas. “Professor Callies has cheer.” debt – an average of $172,726. • Students with the most financial devoted his career to a search for understanding the deeper meaning of what it means To request a brochure about the The survey pointed out that schools need receive grants up to $4,000 annu- to own property, and the relationship between property rights and individual liberties. conference, please email Ali Trivette vary when it comes to how much finan- ally based on their FAFSA data. His work has also integrated property law’s traditions with more modern concepts at [email protected] or call (757) 221- cial help they provide students through • Federal work/study pays $3,500 a such as environmental concerns and the public trust.” Thomas added, “A truly deserv- 7466. various options. year for up to 20 hours of work a week,

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 Preservation of Jon  $120,000 Grant Will Van Dyke’s Papers Assist Diverse Students Underway at UH Law Library in Ulu Lehua Program at UH Law

BY ELLEN-RAE CACHOLA Archives Manager, UH Law Library justice.” from various backgrounds are able to The grant, written largely by Law stay in law school, be successful, and pass derstand how Jon did so much, but this velopments in Pacific Island nations and School staff member and Special Proj- the bar,” said Andrade. “In general across archive will help enlighten those who territories advocating for islander rights ects Director Minara Mordecai, is spe- the country, the bar passage rates have want to know more and, we hope, some in ocean law, anti-nuclear issues, and self- cifically aimed at assisting students from been going down, so part of the grant is who want to follow his lead.” governance, among other issues. diverse backgrounds with an emphasis to conduct a study at our school to figure The grant will focus on processing, in- Archives Manager Ellen-Rae Cachola on historically underrepresented minor- out what are the indicators for success. dexing, and making accessible the papers will coordinate archival processing, un- ity students as well as those from eco- “With the data, we can hone in on and research behind Van Dyke’s 13 books der the supervision of Library Director nomically disadvantaged backgrounds, what it is that makes students more suc- and textbooks and hundreds of articles. Vicki Szymczak. The program will engage according to the AccessLex website. cessful,” added Andrade. The material covers his legal representa- students to learn about Native Hawaiian As bar passage rates have dipped na- The Ulu Lehua Program is a national tion in cases involving Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Island history through hands- tionally in recent years, rates have fallen model with many success stories, includ- Ferdinand Marcos human rights victims, on archival preservation experience. most noticeably among students from ing Andrade himself. It was founded in and constitutional litigation with his wife A public event launching the Jon Van HE UH LAW SCHOOL has been awarded 1974 - a year after the UH Law School and partner, attorney Sherry Broder, as Dyke Collection will be held in February, a two-year $120,000 grant that will began classes - to ensure that the Law HE WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON SCHOOL well as his participation in various de- 2018. increase support for students from School community reflected Hawai‘i’s of Law Library has received a grant from underserved and underrepresented diverse population and to provide the the Hawai‘i Council for Humanities to communities who are in the school’s opportunity to attend the Law School for process the papers of late Professor of highly-regarded Ulu Lehua Scholars qualified students who had overcome ad-

Law Jon Van Dyke, who passed away No- Program. versity and showed promise to serve un- vember 29, 2011. Professor Jon Van Dyke The grant, awarded by AccessLex With the data, derserved communities. The Lehua Pro-

Van Dyke was an internationally- Institute, provides funding to support we can“ hone in gram has already graduated more than renowned scholar and teacher of Con- student success and to enable the Law 350 students. Each year 10-12 students stitutional Law, International Law, In- School to collect and analyze data on in- on what it is enter Richardson as part of the program, ternational Ocean Law, Rights of Native dicators to enhance bar passage for stu- that makes“ and receive support and mentorship Hawaiians and indigenous peoples, Hu- dents in the program. It will also support throughout their time at the Law School, man rights, and Environmental Law. a special Law School summer school students more with an emphasis on success during the He was named the “Outstanding Pro- class for Lehua Scholars. successful. 1L year. fessor” at the Law School in 1984, 1993, “The grant is generally awarded to The grant is enabling Andrade to 1996 and 2002; in 2006 and 2008 the innovative programs that create pipe- spend additional time tutoring and ad- graduating class selected him to give the lines into law school for minority stu- vising students, as well as hiring tutors faculty Commencement Address; and in dents,” said Interim Director Troy J.H. to supply each student the help needed. 2009 he received the Regents’ Medal for Andrade ‘11, who as a Visiting Assistant Andrade is a 2014 graduate of the Ulu Excellence in Research. He was also a Professor assumed leadership of the Lehua Program who was managing Carlsmith Ball Faculty Scholar. innovative program in the fall of 2016 editor of the University of Hawai’i Law Law School Dean Avi Soifer said, “Jon when Professor Linda Krieger decided disadvantaged communities. This grant Review and served as a law clerk for Van Dyke was a phenomenon and we miss to concentrate on her cutting-edge re- hopes to develop methods to reverse Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald. He him immensely. His far-ranging intellect search and teaching. that trend - not just in Hawai‘i, but also was a litigation attorney at McCorriston and his passion for justice benefitted not “But for us, it will be a little differ- at law schools across the country. Miller Mukai MacKinnon LLP before only our students and his colleagues, but ent because the funds will be used to “In partnership with AccessLex In- coming to the Law School as a Visiting also the entire community and many oth- support our Lehua Scholars while at the stitute, the Lehua Program will continue Assistant Professor and Interim Director er people far beyond Hawai’i.” Law School to ensure their success as as- to serve as a national model for other this past fall. Soifer added: “It is impossible to un- piring attorneys with a passion for social law schools to help ensure that students Andrade is a graduate of Kamehame-

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ha Schools; Pacific Lutheran University gram strongly supports students through in Tacoma, WA, where he studied po- their first year of law school, and re- litical science and economics; and then duces the number of courses by one dur-

Richardson Law School. Andrade also ing the 1L year. Students then complete  ‘I feel Lucky,’ says Law obtained a Ph.D. from UH, where his the course during their first summer. 1L studies focused on Native Hawaiian legal The Ulu Lehua Lehua Scholars take a course taught by

history and the American Civil Rights Program is a the program director during their first Movement. During college Andrade in- “ semester that focuses on social justice Grad Jamil Newirth ‘12

terned with former Hawai‘i Sen. Daniel national model lawyering and the nuances of the Ameri- Akaka in Washington, D.C. and became and we are ex- can legal system. The grant will help pro- Cancer Survivor who was ‘Laker for a Day’ interested in politics and law. Both Aka- vide more attention during the first year ka and Representative Ken Ito encour- tremely proud“ of as well as during the second and third aged him to pursue a law degree at Rich- its many success years to keep the cohort connected, says OR UH LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE and Maui attorney thinks he heard applause, but was too ardson. Andrade. Jamil Newirth ’12, the thrill of being a “Laker for shell-shocked being next to his favorite “All of the issues going on with stories. a Day” was a peak experience, thanks to the bas- team to remember. Native Hawaiians helped change my ketball team’s partnership with UCLA Health that Newirth was nominated by his neu- path and got me interested in law school,” focuses on patients with severe medical issues. rosurgeon Dr. Linda Liau for the honor of he says. But it was also part of an extraordinary journey dining on steak and shrimp in the Staples As now structured, the Lehua Pro- that has led the Maui attorney into cancer remis- Center’s private Lexus Club, going out sion and a sense of hope for the future, five years onto the court at halftime to a standing after he was given just 17 months to live. “I look at the future very positively,” said the William S. Richardson School of Law graduate who was diagnosed with a brain tumor just as he was studying for the Bar exam. “I feel

lucky, and I should use that luck to do good.” Newirth, who has a real estate, business and estate planning law practice on Maui

with the R. Clay Sutherland law firm in Kahului, got the star treatment on Sunday, March 26, during a Los Angeles Lakers’ home game against Portland. You can turn “I was too nervous to look around,” Newirth admitted afterward, adding that he any experience,““ good or bad, to good.

ovation, and seeing his face splashed up on the Jumbotron above cheering fans. The partnership program helps focus attention on the important work that UCLA Health is doing. “You can turn any experience, good or bad, to good,” said Newirth who with two friends has also launched a non-profit called UVSC, “U Versus Cancer/Us Ver- sus Cancer” (www.uvsc.org) to provide both financial and emotional help to oth- Visiting Assistant Professor er cancer patients. Co-founders are Chris Troy Andrade ‘11 Thibaut, a friend from high school on Maui, whose father Rob founded Duke’s Jamil Newirth on the Jumbotron restaurant but succumbed to cancer in

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1997, and cancer survivor Ben Moon, tumor cells to stimulate the patient’s own have found out about the life-lengthening whose video “Denali,” about seeing can- immune system. Even though the tumor clinical trial with Dr. Liau if not for the re- cer through his dog’s eyes, has gone viral. is now almost gone, Newirth checks in search skill he learned at UH Law School.

Newirth was diagnosed with a fast- every two or three months with Dr. Liau, “There are thousands and thousands  Global Environmental growing brain cancer called Glioblastoma who is interim chair of the Neurosurgery of clinical trials, and it helped me nar- in 2012. He underwent delicate brain sur- Department at UCLA’s Jonsson Compre- row down to the best trials for me - and gery with Dr. Liau at UCLA, and then ra- hensive Cancer Center. Dr. Liau’s vaccine then focus on the key factors that diation and chemotherapy, before joining discovery is now being offered at 50 sites would benefit my condition the most,” Issues Tackled by UH Law a three-year clinical trial with DCVax-L, a across the country, says Newirth. said Newirth.  vaccine that utilizes a patient’s individual But Newirth says he never would Associate Dean and Students in IUCN Congress Follow-up

Jamil Newirth (left) with friend Marlin Henton at the Los Angeles’ Lakers court at halftime.

N THE AFTERMATH of the global Con- servation Congress held in Hawai‘i from September 1-10, 2016, the UH Law School continues its role in international events that have an impact on the environment. In May, for example, law student Ryan McDermott ’19 participated in an international environmental conference in Brazil, accompanying Associate Dean Denise Antolini who continues to play a leadership role in the global environmental movement. As the Conservation Con- gress ended, Antolini was named Deputy Chair of the World Commission on Envi- ronmental Law (WCEL), one of six IUCN commissions. In this new international role, Prof. Antolini has been involved over the past year in meetings in Switzerland, Brazil, India, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Her role as Deputy Chair of the WCEL also means there are even greater opportunities for law students to be engaged in the international environmental arena. A second student - Miranda Steed ’19 – was scheduled to attend a July conference convened to train African judges in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the trip was cancelled because of the Associate Dean Denise Antolini and Justice Antonio Benjamin in front of the High Court of on-going civil war and considerable im- Brazil for World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) steering committee meetings.

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warming, climate change, sea level rise, judges from around the world several and such specific Pacific concerns as ma- times a year.” rine debris, biofouling, community-based For student McDermott, the trip natural resource management, sustain- to the Brazil conference was inspiring.  “This offered me an international per- UH Law able growth, and the importance of environmental courts. And it offered students spective on the legal framework differ- and faculty the opportunity to stay in- ent countries use to protect the environ- volved at a high level. ment,” said McDermott, who was part of the team creating a permanent record Faculty Specialist “Because we have the ‘Hawai‘i Com- mitments’ with the documents cre- of conference events. “I learned about ated at the Congress, we want to see some new legal theories - one of the big- follow-through,” said Antolini. “They gest being a citizen’s right to a healthy environment, which is part of the con- Ken Lawson are grounded in things we care about in Hawai‘i and we are committed to main- stitution in Brazil. There are other South taining the momentum.” American and Caribbean countries that Honored with 2017 Regents’ The May meetings in Brazil included have similar language.” five days of gatherings for the WCEL, As a law student who just completed Excellence in Teaching Award his first year, McDermott said the experience also gave added strength to his ILLIAM S. RICHARDSON SCHOOL OF career goal of working in international Law Associate Faculty Specialist environmental law, particularly about Kenneth Lawson, who also serves marine issues. “The experience gave me as Co-Director of the Hawai‘i In- different options of how I could use my nocence Project (HIP), received a law degree that I hadn’t thought about 2017 Regents ‘Excellence in Teaching before. And I met people from all over Award’ for his “extraordinary gifts” This offered me the world, judges in particular, whom I and the “strength of character” he

an international“ never would have met under other cir- brings to his teaching. cumstances.” Law Dean Avi Soifer said Law- perspective on As part of maintaining Hawai‘i’s son “is truly inspirational to his col-

the legal frame- leadership role and momentum, Prof. leagues as well as his students.” Soifer Above: Associate Dean Antolini and Justice Benjamin during meetings at the Brazilian sa- Antolini flew to Washington D.C. in the called Lawson both “courageous and indomitable” for what he has overcome and for vannah ecosystem, Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. Below: At IUCN headquarters work different middle of June to work with other IUCN the contributions he makes to the Law School and the community. in Gland, Switzerland with IUCN President Zhang Xinsheng. “ countries use members to form a U.S. National Com- As Co-Director of the HIP, Lawson has been an electrifying force with his personal mittee. story of overcoming addiction and find- to protect the “Hawai‘i needs to be part of the U.S. ing redemption – a story that has often mediate danger. At the University of Or- environment. national leadership to maintain our high brought students to tears - and that has egon Steed did her undergraduate college involvement with the IUCN,” said Anto- produced standing ovations by his class- thesis on the Congo’s brutal colonial past, lini. “The members in many countries es as well as by members of the public to based on portrayals by the Royal Museum have organized themselves into national whom Lawson often speaks. for Central Africa near Brussels. committees and the U.S. has never done He is also credited for innovations The UH Law School’s continuing in- this. This is really exciting because it that have helped make HIP a thriving volvement in global environmental net- means the U.S. involvement will be sus- clinic in which law students learn to works is an outgrowth of the World Con- highlighted by the second international tained after Hawai‘i (and the IUCN Con- conduct intake, investigate claims of in- servation Congress (WCC) held last fall meeting of the Global Judicial Institute gress) through this national committee. nocence, evaluate cases, and advocate in Hawai‘i. The Congress, convened by for the Environment that has been under- I would be there informally, represent- effectively on behalf of inmates when the International Union for Conservation way for several years but is now about to ing the host committee and Hawai‘i.” there is strong factual evidence of actual of Nature (IUCN), provided the spring- be launched. Said Antolini: “The purpose Antolini said this is an important innocence. board for the Law School’s participation. is to build global networks and capac- moment to be involved in the environ- Lawson was chosen by the gradu- This was the first time the global environ- ity in environmental law for judges and mental movement, especially on a na- ating class as the faculty speaker at the mental organization held a summit in the the judiciary, not only for environmental tional level because of new leadership in Law School Commencement ceremo- U.S. in its 60-year history. courts, but also for judges to address en- Washington, and changes in U.S. policy nies last year, and he is consistently a The Congress enabled Richardson vironmental issues in their regular duties. toward environmental protection, both favorite faculty member in law student law students to partner with community It’s open to all judges of all countries who at home and abroad.  evaluations. organizations and state agencies to ad- may apply for membership. The idea is Associate Faculty Specialist Ken Lawson dress pressing concerns regarding global to build an organization able to convene

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 Seattle Labor Leader  Scheck and Rosen Points to Law Explore ‘Innocence Project’ Training as a Key to Empowerment Successes and Challenges During 2017 ‘January-Term’

lecture as part of the January Term (J- along with investigative TV journalist Ira Term) faculty at the Law School in 2017, Rosen who is a producer for CBS News’ Scheck suggested that “Conviction Integ- “60 Minutes.” Before that Rosen was se- rity Units,” as investigative teams within nior producer of “Primetime Live” with prosecutor’s offices, could move rapidly Diane Sawyer. He has won 20 National to scrutinize potential miscarriages of Emmys, four Dupont Awards, two RFK justice. Awards, and a Peabody. As it is now, Innocence Projects in individual states often take up the cases of those who may have been wrongly con- victed, but each case may take years to investigate and move forward. The units

he championed could work more swiftly. TOP SEATTLE LABOR ORGANIZER told an TTORNEY AND LAW PROFESSOR Barry “Conviction Integrity Units are be-

audience at the UH Law School last fall Scheck, who founded the Innocence Proj- ing set up,” Scheck told an audience of that what worked for the “Fight for $15” ect 25 years ago in New York, is promoting law students, lawyers earning Continuing Conviction minimum wage success in that large West and supporting a new procedural system Legal Education credits and members of Integrity“ Units“ Coast city was a strong collaboration Attorney Tracey Thompson addresses that could go into effect in prosecutor’s the public. “They create a space to talk among grassroots groups. students and faculty at UH Law School. offices across the nation – and would be a about how this works if new evidence of are being “We built a coalition of labor, non-prof- secondary line of defense against wrong- innocence is discovered, and they can say set up. its, faith-based institutions, community ful convictions. ‘Let’s investigate this.’” groups and environmental organizations,” During his final class and public Scheck spoke at the UH Law School said labor attorney Tracey Thompson, Di- the $15 threshold, with larger employers proposition for Seattle. At first there was rector of Legal Affairs for Teamsters Local of more than 500 employees who don’t of- a lot of push-back by small business, said 117, and a Washington State Labor Council fer medical benefits having been required Thompson, but the resulting ordinance of- Mother Jones Award winner. to hike their minimum pay to $15 an hour fered a phased-in wage hike through 2021, “The unions in Seattle are strong,” said as of January 1, 2017. when it is required to cover all workers. Thompson. “We push.” Thompson credited some of her own When the initiative passed, Thompson The fight to hike the minimum wage success in helping negotiate this change said, “We decided to go for it – increasing The innocence movement has de- to $15 was powerful and succeeded with to her legal training. “Having a law degree the statewide minimum wage.” pended on investigative journalism and voters in Seattle – the first major metro- doesn’t mean you have to practice law,” Thompson gave much of the credit for stories that help get innocent people out politan area to pass a law which will take she said. But having that “empowerment” the success of efforts in Seattle and Wash- of prison - with deep dives into the causes effect in stages - but it has also become a offers an advantage as a negotiator. ington state to the power of the coalition. of wrongful convictions, and the remedies national movement, with a dozen states Thompson said the coalition be- “It’s not something a single non-profit that could prevent them. In each J-Term and cities heading down a similar path. gan its push to raise the minimum wage can do on their own,” she said. “Everyone class, Professors Scheck and Rosen high- “We wanted it to take off, which it in the small nearby city of SeaTac with needs to be engaged in the work for it to lighted a story featured on “60 Minutes,” has,” said Thompson. 27,000 people. The coalition campaigned happen.” described how it was produced, and ex- Thompson’s appearance at the Law A new study by the University of for passage of an ordinance there, can- Law Professor Barry plored the underlying issues. The class Washington also shows that the wage vasing door-to-door to get the message School was sponsored by the American Scheck, left, and award- also explored the rapidly changing role of hikes have not had the dire effects some across – and saw it win by a slim margin. Constitution Society for Law and Policy, winning investigative investigative journalism in various media predicted, and actually became part of The movement then gained momentum as well as Unite Here Local 5.  TV journalist Ira Rosen and the relationship (both legal and infor- economic growth in the area. when Seattle Mayor Ed Murray formed a at UH Law School mal rules) between reporters and advo- Seattle’s law allows for steps toward Minimum Wage Committee to study the cates.

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Included in the class discussion were not commit. When advanced DNA evi- exonerees Brian Banks, a former rising dence indicated that Jardine was not the

football star, and Uriah Courtney. Banks perpetrator, a Maui Circuit Court judge

was freed in 2012 after five years in pris- overturned his conviction.  Fighting Human on, and Courtney in 2013, after eight years The new leadership of the Hawai‘i in prison. No one was“ Innocence Project expects to take on Professor Scheck also spoke at a Janu- born being a bad a larger load of cases. They will utilize ary 13 fundraiser for the Innocence Proj- “ Kawakami’s background as a public de- Trafficking T hrough Law— ect’s Hawai‘i chapter held at Café Julia person. fender in felony jury trials and Lawson’s in the downtown YWCA, co-sponsored past experience as a criminal lawyer and and Undercover Work by the Hawai‘i State Bar Foundation. his powerful personal teaching message. Funds raised will assist in research about Lawson will focus on classroom material Hawai‘i prisoners who maintain their in- and working with students. nocence. In helping lead the Hawai‘i Innocence The Hawai‘i Innocence Project is part Project, Lawson speaks of the importance of the William S. Richardson School. It was Scheck, now a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, Hawai‘i Innocence Project is part of the who was primarily responsible for setting Law School curriculum with law students the standards for the forensic application involved in research about Hawai‘i pris- of DNA technology as far back as 1988. In- oners who claim wrongful conviction. nocence Projects in 37 states have freed Through the work of the Innocence more than 330 individuals using DNA evi- Project in Hawai‘i, founded and then led dence alone. by Professor Virginia Hench, for example, Under the direction of Associate Dean Alvin Jardine of Maui was freed in 2011 Ronette M. Kawakami ’85 and Associate after spending 20 years in prison for a N THE AFTERMATH of natural disasters Faculty Specialist Kenneth Lawson, the rape and burglary he maintained he did like Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Phil- ippines in 2013 killing more than 8,000 people, there is another national disaster, according to Philippine attorney Mia An- dal Castro, Philippines managing director of the Consuelo Foundation. The second disaster is the fate of the children. “When you see natural disasters, the most vulnerable people are the children,” Castro told an audience at the William S. Richardson School of Law during a discussion on human trafficking and the of introducing law students to this work. work of the foundation in the Philippines “I can teach you law, but I can’t teach you to protect women and children. Her talk how to feel, how to care, and how to stand was sponsored by the Law School, the Fil- up for someone who has been wrong- ipino Community Center, and the Hawai‘i fully accused,” he tells students. “If you Filipino Lawyers Association. don’t care about your client, why should “In times of disaster, it’s then when the judge care? Why should the jury the traffickers prey on the children,” care? You, as the attorney, have to make Castro said, describing how children them care. No one was born being a are easily lured to accept “help” not real- bad person.” izing that they are being sold into prosti- The HIP includes a number of Law tution by human traffickers. School lecturers who help teach: attor- But natural disasters are only one neys Susan Arnett, Bill Harrison, Brook scenario in a $32 billion underground Hart, and DNA expert David Haymer.  criminal network surpassed only by arms smuggling and narcotics trafficking, said Uriah Courtney was exonerated and freed by the Innocence Project in 2013. At right, Castro. Globally more than 2.5 million Attorney Mia Andal Castro, Philippines managing director of the Consuelo Foundation Brian Banks was freed in 2012 after wrongful conviction. people are victims of human trafficking, a

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crime that often capitalizes on the hopes have received training for jobs that offer of poverty-stricken people longing to get hope for the future. their families out of poverty, she said. But the challenges continue. Many ar-

“Human traffickers would go out to eas of the Philippines are still not meeting  Professor Maxine far-flung areas enticing young girls to ap- even the most basic needs of the people, ply for jobs in the big cities as waitresses or This goes a situation that increases the vulnerability

clerks and convince them this is their tick- of those living in those areas. Castro also et out of poverty,” she said. “It’s not uncom- beyond“ just discovered corruption in the court system Burkett Honored

mon to have a relative who has migrated, helping one as her agency attempted to bring traffick- and if someone comes and is introduced ers to justice. On one heartbreaking occa- for Expertise in Climate Change by someone they knew, they would fall for child, but trying sion, for example, a child was kidnapped it. Over and over again these girls fell into to incorporate“ in front of the courthouse, and witnesses this trap – not knowing they had been sold were powerless to intervene. “I’m honored to be a part of already. They end up in bars, prostitution ways the victims However, a new kind of criminal en- the critically important conver- dens, brothels, (sometimes) deeply brain- can be protected forcement is making a dent in catching sations we’re having on the se- washed by their pimps, with some even online trafficking, said Castro. Interna- vere impacts of climate change, groomed to be the next traffickers.” tional law enforcement is cooperating to particularly on the most vul- Castro said that victims trafficked in create “virtual” webcam people enabling nerable communities currently the Philippines may also end up being enforcement agencies to track traffick- at the frontlines,” said Burkett, sent abroad, making them much more dif- ers and their customers online. Already a who last fall also received the ficult to trace and rescue. number of countries have moved to arrest Williams College Bicenten- As an attorney working for the Ma- ing programs that help victims reclaim and prosecute numerous cases through nial Medal, the college’s dis- nila International Justice Commission their lives. such “sting” operations. tinguished achievement award before joining the Consuelo Foundation, The foundation has already spent “There are success stories,” said Cas- for alumni. She graduated from Castro went undercover to rescue young more than $75 million in programs that tro, “but also many painful stories. This Williams College in 1998 with victims and then prosecute their traffick- have helped 400,000 women and chil- goes beyond just helping one child, but AW PROFESSOR MAXINE BURKETT, who a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, ers. Her work with the Consuelo Foun- dren in the Philippines. While some have trying to incorporate ways the victims can has lectured extensively on climate and earned her JD from the Uni- dation carries on this mission by provid- been helped to escape trafficking, others be protected.” change throughout the world, was chosen versity of California, Berkeley’s as a Public Policy Fellow last summer at Boalt Hall School of law. She the Woodrow Wilson Center for Interna- also attended Exeter College at tional Scholars in Washington, D.C., con- Professor Maxine Burkett Oxford University. sidered one of the top 10 think tanks in the Burkett also was singled out world. this year as one of Hawaii Busi- Burkett was also appointed last year ness magazine’s annual “20 for A NEW WEBSITE FOR THE UH LAW LIBRARY to the new federal Advisory Committee the Next 20” which highlights BY BRIAN R. HUFFMAN for the Sustained National Climate As- outstanding leaders who will continue contributing to the community. In 2016, she sessment, one of 15 experts in physical was named one of “40 Under 40” for 2016, an annual honor from Pacific Business Electronic Services Librarian, UH Law Library and social sciences, communications, News also spotlighting community leadership. If you have clicked on the library website are education and related topics reflecting In 2009, Burkett joined the Richardson Law School faculty, where she teaches the the William S. Richard- categorized in the top- the broad scope of issues relevant to this broad scope of climate law, including climate change law and policy, torts, and ocean son School of Law Li- right menu: Research assessment process. The committee was and coastal law. She has written extensively on diverse areas of climate law, with a brary website, you may Resources, Services/ established by the National Oceanic and particular emphasis on climate justice — exploring the impact of climate change on have noticed something Policies, About, and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). communities that suffer disproportionate impact in the U.S. and globally. different. Blog. The site also has The committee’s advice and recom- Also in 2009 she became the inaugural director of the Center for Island Climate The new website a customizable Google mendations go to the White House Of- Adaptation and Policy, a program initiated by five colleges at the University of Hawai‘i went live in early Janu- search engine that ary. It runs on an open allows you to search all fice of Science and Technology Policy and within the Sea Grant program. source platform using content on the website, (OSTP) for use by the U.S. Global Change Burkett focuses much of her research on the impact of climate change on islands, WordPress. It features the library’s research Research Program, a confederation of the both in the Pacific and other low-lying regions. In numerous writings, she has looked a cleaner, updated ap- guides, and the library research arms of 13 federal departments at climate ethics and equity, including in 2010 when she served as the Wayne Morse pearance. The website archives website. and agencies. It is charged with carrying Chair of Law and Politics at the Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon. also features a built-in The website was line experience regard- library.law.hawaii.edu/ out research to develop and maintain ca- Burkett was a White House intern and an Omidyar Fellow. She is also a member blog so we no longer designed to work on less of whether you visit and try it out for your- pabilities to support the country’s under- scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. After her graduation from law school, depend on a separate every device and every us from a phone, laptop, self. Feel free to contact blog site (like Weebly). browser. Our visitors tablet, or desktop us with any suggestions standing and response to global climate she served as a law clerk for The Honorable Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court The primary uses of will have the same on- computer. Go to http:// or comments. change. 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Stacey Gray ’19 and Hawai‘i State Rep. Della Au Belatti ’03  Environmental Advocate Stacey Gray ’19 Is UH Law School’s 2017 Patsy Mink Fellow

tunities for Hawai‘i law students to spend ern University she spent time outdoors time in Washington as interns with the doing stream surveys as part of a course state’s congressional delegation. The first in ichthyology – the study of fish science intern 15 years ago served in the office of - that first piqued her interest in conser- the late U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye. vation and the environment. She earned This year’s event was organized by a B.S. in Environmental Studies with a 2016 Patsy Mink Fellow Nahelani Web- ster ’17, who spent last summer serving in the office of U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz. The internship is supported by Hawai‘i’s Con- gressional delegation, which rotates the internship each year. Law School Dean Avi Soifer recalled TACEY GRAY ’19, who spent seven years as the courage and the accomplishments It could be an environmental scientist and another of the late Congresswoman and he not-

two and a half as a marine fisheries bi- ed the direct connection to her legacy important“ to ologist before entering law school, was through the Mink Fellowship. have people with

named the 2017 Patsy Mink Fellow by the Soifer said, “We are proud of the UH Law School. Richardson students who began this pro- both legal and She spent the 2017 summer work- gram on behalf of those who would fol- scientific

ing in the office of Hawai‘i Rep. Colleen low them. These visionaries such as Della “ Hanabusa ’77 on Capitol Hill in Washing- Au Belatti, as well as the Mink Fellows training to

ton, D.C., with funds provided by gener- who have benefited from the internship, speak truth ous donors and the Law School. have continued to honor Patsy Mink di- “Merging my scientific knowledge rectly through their many accomplish- to power. with legal knowledge could be a power- ments.” “ ful tool for change,” said Gray. In addition Gray has spent the last decade work- to her other legal studies at the William S. ing in the environmental field between We are proud of the Richardson students who Richardson School of Law, she is earning Hawai‘i and Alaska, including for a time a certificate in Environmental Law and as “the eyes and ears of the National Ma- began this program on behalf of those who hopes to pursue a career in that field. rine Fisheries Service” on fishing boats, would follow them. “The marriage between law and sci- as well as spending time in the field in Business Option. ence is where I see myself operating be- Hawai‘i as a conservation biologist as- Gray expected her summer in D.C. to cause sometimes they just don’t under- sessing native species. At one point, she be eventful. “With the Republican major- stand each other. Hopefully I will be able worked for Pono Pacific, on a subcontract ity there will be environmental regula- to bridge that divide. As a former scientist with the U.S Army Corps of Engineers tions potentially coming under fire, and civil rights, gender equality, and speak- Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Mink, who faced discrimination and I speak their language.” Army Branch, doing monitoring and con- it’s good to have passionate advocates in ing truth to power until she passed away Act to honor Mink’s contributions. many closed doors as a young woman Gray was honored at the Law School servation work with the Hawaiian native D.C.,” she said. “It could be important to in 2003. Mink served for 24 years in the U.S. trying to begin her professional career in a spring ceremony keynoted by Hawai‘i ‘elepaio by locating nests and recording have people with both legal and scientific Mink championed and co-sponsored House of Representatives and was the in Hawai‘i, often said: “I can’t change the State Rep. Della Au Belatti ’03. Belatti the success of fledglings. training to speak truth to power.” a portion of the Education Amendments first woman of color in Congress. Pas- past, but I can certainly help somebody was one of four UH law students who “It was heavy field work, boots-on- That very much fits the role exem- act of 1972 – Title IX – that gives women sionate and determined, she was an out- else in the future so they don’t have to go launched the fellowship to honor Mink’s the-ground work,” she said. Even during plified by Congresswoman Mink, who equal access to opportunities in educa- spoken advocate of equal rights for wom- through what I did.”  accomplishments and to provide oppor- her undergraduate studies at Ohio North- spent her career in politics fighting for tion. That act was renamed The Patsy T. en – as well as all minorities.

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 The Princeton Review  Justice McKenna ’82 Again Names UH Law Praises Evening Program School a ‘Best’ for 2017 and Awards It Several Top Rankings Strength—And its Participants

HE WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON School of Law has again been ranked as one of the best in the nation in the 2017 edition of AWAI‘I SUPREME COURT Associate Justice The Princeton Review, with top rankings Sabrina McKenna ‘82 had high praise for in several key categories. law students in the UH Law School’s Eve- Included in the list of the 172 best ning Part-Time Program – and the pro- American Bar Association (ABA)-accred- gram itself - during a celebration last fall ited U.S. law schools, the UH Law School to honor the 100th graduate of the pro- was ranked: gram, now nine years old. As the keynote • 2nd as the “Best Environment for ‘Stew Day’ – a tradition in which faculty honor students with a free meal - is one of many speaker, McKenna also shared her own Minority Students.” at Richardson which has been ranked one of the best environments for minority students. personal story of night school and the im- • 3rd as the school “Most Chosen by pact it made on her early life. Older Students.” their growth, and inspires them to excel, publisher of the educational survey. McKenna compared the strength, re- • 2nd as the school with the “Most Di- but also to give back to their communi- The Princeton Review editors ex- silience and conscientious attitude she verse Faculty.” ties,” said Dean Avi Soifer. “These rank- plained: “We don’t have a ‘Best Overall saw in her mother’s attendance at night Richardson Law School repeatedly ings again testify to the creative and in- Academics’ ranking list nor do we rank school to the same strengths she sees in ranks among the country’s most out- clusive feeling Richardson provides for the law schools 1 to 172 on a single list the part-time program participants today, standing law schools, and it is consis- our students, and the high quality of our because we believe each of the schools and the strength of so many of her own tently among the top schools in each of faculty.” offers outstanding academics. We believe Richardson classmates who worked their the above categories. The UH Law School The rankings are drawn from surveys that hierarchical ranking lists that focus way through Law School while also rais- ranked even higher than it did a year ago of 19,400 students attending these law solely on academics offer very little value ing families long before there was an Eve- in terms of its choice by older students schools, and from administrators. The to students and only add to the stress of ning Part-Time Program. and its faculty diversity. surveys asked students about academics, applying to law school.” The program, launched in 2008, was The annual survey uses 11 lists to look student body characteristics, and campus The Princeton Review (www.Princ- specifically designed for working pro- more closely at what the accredited law life, as well as about themselves and their etonReview.com), headquartered in fessionals, and especially for those who schools offer and to consider the students’ career plans. Natick, MA, is an education services com- have professional, financial, and family sense of the environment on their cam- Only about 33 percent of the best law pany known for its tutoring, admission obligations during the day. The students puses. schools appear on one or more of the and test-prep services, books, and other who have participated and graduated lists used by The Princeton Review, notes student resources. It is not affiliated with have brought a wide variety of skills and “We pride ourselves on offering a Associate Justice Sabrina McKenna ’82 of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court school that welcomes students, nurtures Robert Franek, Senior Vice President and Princeton University. interests to the student body, enriching

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the Richardson Law School experience son lived his own life. for all. “As CJ Richardson did, live your life

“From a young age I felt the strug- with grace,” McKenna advised the stu-

gles of those who choose to improve dent graduates. “Remember, it is not  Community Activist

themselves through evening education necessary to be disagreeable when you programs while working full-time,” said As CJ disagree. Be humble, be kind, be under- McKenna. “Forty-nine years ago, when standing, and have a smile, whether for I was nine, my father suddenly died of a Richardson““ did, a friend or a foe. And, as often happened Professor Randy Roth heart attack. live your life with CJ, your grace, humility, kindness, “We were living in Japan where my understanding, and smile might just turn Retires after 35 years Teaching at Richardson Law dad had been employed by the U.S. gov- with grace. a foe into a friend.” ernment. My mom had been naturalized Associate Faculty Specialist Liam as a U.S. citizen but had lived in Japan her Skilling ’07 is Director of the Evening AW PROFESSOR Randall W. Roth, a long- Hawai‘i through his committed involve- entire life. She now had to immediately Part-Time Program and also Academic time activist who, among other things, ment. Roth’s publication of “The Price re-enter the work force to support us. Success. Each year since its inception, the helped topple former trustees of the of Paradise,” which detailed inequities in “Three weeks after my dad died she Evening Part-Time Program has grown Bishop Estate through his “Broken Trust” both laws and practices in Hawai‘i, and took a job as a front desk clerk at the U.S. and last fall had an incoming class of 18 essay and book, retired June 1 as a profes- his scrutiny of the abuse of the trust obli- military hotel at Yokota Air Force Base in these classes and served as her English- students. The program consistently ranks sor at the William S. Richardson School of gations of former Bishop Estate trustees, the Tokyo area. In order to improve her Japanese interpreter and translator.” well nationally, recently earning 28th Law after 35 years of teaching. for example, have influenced public life skills, my mom went to night classes on McKenna also praised the evening place in the U.S. News & World Report Dean Avi Soifer called him “a coura- and gained national recognition. base to learn typing and shorthand. As a students for the way they exemplify the rankings for 2017, up from 30th place a geous, stand-up guy who has changed The City Council honored Roth with nine and 10-year-old, I went with her to spirit and grace with which CJ Richard- year ago.  this whole community” during a retire- a laudatory resolution read by Coun- ment party at College Hill that honored cilman Ernie Martin, a ’95 Richardson Roth’s distinguished teaching career graduate, during the gathering. Martin and celebrated the impact he has had on chaired the Committee on Budget for CHILD WELFARE CLINIC HELPS BUILD ‘Happy Memories’ in a 2017 Project

UH law and social ing ’07 who has been “All agencies had entering the child work students pooled involved with the Child their own assessment welfare system. their talents and aca- Welfare Clinic since its forms,” said Justin One of the impor- demic skills again this founding at the urging Jo ’17, noting that the tant purposes of year to complete three of Law Dean Avi Soifer. students in the clinic the center was youth-oriented commu- “We hope these con- utilized those to create “creating happy nity-based projects as nections will continue.” a comprehensive, com- memories” for part of the Child Welfare Student members mon form. the children, said Clinic sponsored by the of the clinic work with A second group Jacob Tokunaga Richardson Law School. actual child welfare of students worked ’19. This course brings files to consider where with the Hawai‘i Youth “Connect- together students from they can create projects Correctional Facility on ing with positive several disciplines at the that fill real needs. This a legislative bill meant role models can university each year to year they worked with to tackle child sex traf- be therapeutic complete projects that Youth Outreach, Family ficking and to detain the in itself,” added Faculty Specialist Liam Skilling ‘07 not only help community Projects Hawai‘i, and children involved in a Tokunaga. partners but begin build- the Office of Youth safe place where they The Child ing important profes- Services. Among the can go through detox Welfare Clinic rounded services to sional networks within projects they tackled and receive a thorough has included participa- people served by all of the future workforce. was one to create a bet- assessment in order to tion by the Law School, these disciplines. “We “The social workers ter referral form to offer help them enter treat- and the UH Schools of have become so silo-ed now know someone young runaways a more ment. Meanwhile, a Social Work, Nursing in our own disciplines,” who is going to be complete selection of third group of students and Teaching, and it said Skilling. “But, be- an attorney and the services and to wrap created a Family seeks to build inter- cause problems are so lawyers know someone them into what’s called Strengthening Center connections for the multi-dimensional, we who will be a social the homeless manage- brochure describing the future to provide more need a different kind of worker,” said Liam Skill- ment system. services for children complex and fully- team to tackle them.” Professor Randall 46 | WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON SCHOOL OF LAW WILLIAM S. RICHARDSONRoth SCHOOL and Susie OF LAW Roth | 47 e-news RANDY ROTH RANDY ROTH e-news

the City Council. The Law School’s Stu- One of the most touching moments and the ethical issues he faced as a result, as a law clerk and gave me my start. I will Professor Roth said he is not yet to- from the University of Denver; and in dent Bar Association passed a similar came when Associate Faculty Special- and they have become like brothers, said be eternally grateful.” Lawson now teach- tally sure about his next step, but he 1975 an LLM from the University of Mi- congratulatory resolution recognizing ist Kenneth Lawson spoke emotionally Lawson. es at the Law School full-time and serves added that he is “looking forward to this ami. During his career at Richardson, he Roth’s service that was read by SBA pres- of how Professor Roth had helped him “He helped me when we were down,” as co-director of the Hawai‘i Innocence adventure.” He said his years at Richard- earned many awards, including a Board of ident Alex Chun ’18. “We thank you very regain his foothold in life, after Lawson Lawson told the assembled faculty and Project. son have enriched his life and the lives of Regents’ Excellence in Teaching Award, much,” said Chun. “We’ll miss you.” had become addicted to prescription staff members, his voice emotional. “The Law School Dean Avi Soifer spoke his family, and that his teaching has been In 2000, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin painkillers and had been sentenced to entire Roth family has been nothing but briefly, stressing the partnership of Ran- a labor of love because of his students and named Roth to a list of “100 Who Made a serve prison time. They met when Roth amazing. They took care of my wife and dy and his wife Susie, and ending his cele- his colleagues. Difference in Hawai‘i During the Twen- invited Lawson to speak to his law class kids when I was gone…And when I got bratory haiku by terming the couple “one In 1970 Roth earned a BS summa cum tieth Century,” and five years later the about Lawson’s personal experiences, out of the halfway house Randy hired me pair excellence.” laude from Regis College; in 1974 a JD City of Honolulu’s Centennial Celebra- tion Committee included him on a list of “100 Who Made Lasting Contributions During the City of Honolulu’s First 100 Years.” Roth also received a screen credit for his work as a script consultant for the movie “The Descendants,” starring

Dean Soifer presents Professor Roth with a koa rocker from the faculty

and the Robert W. Clopton Distinguished Community Service Award and he was

…. a courageous, named as a Carlsmith Ball Faculty Schol- stand-up guy ar from 2012-14. He has served as presi- “ dent of the Hawai‘i State Bar Association, who has changed“ Hawai‘i Justice Foundation, Hawai‘i In- this whole stitute for Continuing Legal Education, and Hawai‘i Estate Planning Council. He community. also served as Associate Reporter for the Restatement of the Law (Third) Trusts project of the American Law Institute. In 1993 and again in 1997, Roth was named Civic Leader of the Year, and in 2009 he received the Gandhi, King, Ikeda award for pursuit of social justice from Morehouse College. George Clooney, which won the Acad- Roth joined the Richardson faculty in emy Award for Best Screenplay in 2012. 1983 after a one-semester visit the year Roth’s skillful treatment of complicated before. He had been an Assistant Profes- legal issues, particularly in the realms of sor of Accounting at Metropolitan State trust and tax law, repeatedly has gained College, where he taught fulltime while praise from such publications as Forbes attending law school. He joined the law Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. faculty at Hamline University in St. Paul, The party was highlighted by a “mag- Minnesota for one year in 1978, and then ic show” presented by Roth’s wife, Susie was on the law faculty at Washburn Uni- Roth, who has had a part-time career as versity in Topeka, Kansas for three and a a clown. Another highlight was a medley half years, and won teaching awards at all of old rock music favorites sung by “The the law schools where he taught. During Casualettes,” an informal singing group his tenure at Richardson he spent a se- that includes a retired judge and a sitting mester as a visiting professor at both the Supreme Court Justice, both Richardson University of Wisconsin and the Univer- graduates. sity of Chicago.

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sponsibility demands discharge of obliga- Professor Dale W. Lee tions that we respect, greatly.” He added, “Gonna do the same thing, just in a differ-

 Faculty Specialist ent arena.” Law Dean Avi Soifer said, “Dale has Dale W. Lee Retires been a remarkable resource and ‘go-to To Join Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

I can remember.” This summer another noon just shooting the breeze with him.

10 students have been involved in paid I wanted the students to see that under- clerkships, and many others are doing pro neath all of the pomp and circumstance, The connections bono volunteer work, Lee explained. CJ was a genuinely caring, wholly down- have been“ “Richardson students are out there to-earth individual. And that character of “ busy in the community,” he said. “Our his showed through, brightly.” ‘win-win’ going graduates, whom we proudly call ‘Rich- Lee has been a favorite with over both ways. ardson Lawyers,’ now dominate the 1,000 students he has worked with dur- Hawai‘i Bar and can be found in every ing his decade at the Law School. And he major law firm as partners and associ- was well known for his annual April Fool’s ates, in governmental agencies as direc- Day spoof message to students announc- tors and deputies, in our courts as Jus- ing that he had “accepted appointment as tices and Judges, in business, and in the Dean of the Shigatsubaka Law School in ALE W. LEE RETIRED from the UH Law Legislature. Our connection with ‘down- Japan.” (Shigatsu translates as April; Baka School on June 30 to pursue a career as a town’ is critical; I sought to strengthen as Fool.) Realtor associated with Berkshire Hatha- it and to take advantage of Richardson’s Staff, administrators, and students guy’ for Richardson students. They ben- way HomeServices Hawai‘i Realty. Lee leadership position for the entire Pacific surprised him with a farewell ceremony efitted immensely from his personal has served as the Director of Professional Region as Hawai‘i’s only law school. The during the Law School’s annual “Stew warmth, concern, and responsiveness and Development & Externship Programs at connections have been ‘win-win’ going Day” when faculty and staff serve a free from his deep knowledge of local attor- the Richardson School of Law – a critical both ways.” hearty lunch to the student body. They neys and judges.” role that introduces law students to the For the past several years Lee also has presented him with gifts, and students Before joining the Law School in world of the law in many different venues, led popular student visits to Honolulu and alumni spoke emotionally about what 2007, Lee had a distinguished career as a and prepares Richardson students to per- law firms, the Supreme Court, the Inter- his counsel and mentoring meant to their Senior Litigation Partner with the Hono- form in professional capacities through mediate Court of Appeals and the Circuit understanding of, and growth in, the law. lulu law firm of Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda. hands-on real life experiences. Courts, the offices of the Attorney Gener- Lee was so touched by the outpouring of He also has been a deputy prosecuting at- “In recent years experiential learning al and the Prosecuting Attorney, and non- respect and affection that he donned dark torney and a member of the Hawai‘i State has been coveted for the practical train- profit agencies. “Much like ‘college tours,’ glasses to disguise tearing up. Bar since 1974, serving as president of the ing and exposure that employers want the students have the chance to walk Lee took the real estate exam a year Hawai‘i State Bar Association in 2004. law graduates to have, and our program through the offices, visit with the lawyers ago - “and felt more pressure than I did Lee graduated from Brown University in has blossomed as a result,” said Lee. “This and judges, and get a feel for the different when I took the Bar Exam,” he said. But, 1970 and received his JD from Southern year 114 students served in Externships atmospheres, cultures, and people who he added, his legal experience offers read- Methodist University in 1974.

in law offices, courts, governmental agen- serve there,” he said. “A fun memory was ily transferable skills to his work as a Re- During the Law School Commence- cies, and non-profit organizations – 50 in finding ourselves sitting in Chief Justice altor. “We lawyers know what it means ment at Andrews Amphitheater, Lee

this summer alone – the largest number Recktenwald’s office on a Friday after- to represent another’s interests. The re- again was recognized, and thanked, and Master of Ceremonies Elyse Oyama ’17 said, “He has always been our ‘go to’ advi- “ sor. He made sure we learned the basics of life,” she joked, “like how to use a screw- Richardson students are out there busy in driver to hang up our diplomas.”  the community.

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 Richardson Law Named  ‘Den Mother’ Among Top in the Nation —and Oldest Graduate Calls UH Law ‘Most Fun’ Ever UH Law students enjoy a hike on Diamond Head student in the country. After doing some six years ago – she has excelled, running research, she reports that a 74-year-old a film production company as president man graduated from an East Coast law and CEO, working as a professional ‘jin- school last year, and an 80-something- gle’ singer with celebrities such as Mel year–old woman may be a current part- Torme, and becoming the executive di- time student in another East Coast law rector and spokeswoman for a number school. At Richardson, the oldest gradu- of local nonprofits – including Hawai‘i ate before Lorraine was 66. “It has been fascinating, frustrating, interesting, intense, and one of the most

rewarding things I’ve ever done,” says OTH THE NATIONAL JURIST and preLaw Lorraine, who also admits to throwing

magazines have named Richardson Law up - twice - on the way to her first law School among the best in the nation in a LONG-TIME HAWAI‘I businesswoman Kay exam. She adds: “It’s maybe the most fun number of categories, and have singled Lorraine, 70, became the oldest student I’ve ever had in my entire life” - minus out the school for strengths in many areas. to graduate from the UH Law School throwing up, of course. I would love“ In a recent survey by The National when she walked across the stage at An- Lorraine’s lifelong dream of law to“ be Perry Jurist magazine, Richardson was named dard at Richardson for many years. drews Amphitheater on May 14 with a school has been 50 years in the mak- among the top American law schools in “Around the country, law school students are getting experience with clients and in graduating class of 114. ing, ever since she first imagined a le- Mason… providing practical training for its stu- courtrooms,” noted an article in the magazine. “Students may work in clinics and extern- In addition to being the Law School’s gal career back in high school in Ohio. dents. ships. They may compete in moot court and trial skills competitions. Or, they may participate oldest graduating student, Lorraine be- “Sometimes life intervenes,” she says. The Spring 2017 issue gives Richard- in simulation courses, where they can practice their lawyering skills in a controlled setting.” lieves she’s also the oldest full-time law But even without a college degree – until son an ‘A-‘ for an array of clinics and ex- All these activities have long been available to Richardson law students. Such practical ternships that offer hands-on training to training, through the Law School’s 10 clinical programs, as well as its 12 institutes, centers and law students. projects, offer students exceptional real world experiences. In the most recent full year - Fall Meanwhile, preLaw’s spring 2017 issue also singled out Richardson for the high qual- 2016-Spring 2017 - of 212 second and ity of its practical training as well as for the unique classes it provides. The issue profiled Women Lawyers - through the manage- third-year law students, there were: many Far West law schools, and included photos of Richardson’s unique graduation cer- ment company she formed when she and • 134 students participating in clinical emonies, with students draped in lei and honoring their families by performing a tradi- her second husband, Brad Bate, settled courses. tional hula. in Hawai‘i in 2003. While caring for her • 139 students participating in simula- The story also pointed out that not only do Richardson students study and work to- terminally ill mother, Lorraine was able tion courses. gether, but they hike, swim, surf, and paddle together in competitive water sports that to take an online college degree in order • 107 students doing externships. help them bond as a class and as a future legal network. to improve her employment prospects as Many students were involved in more Included in the discussion of these law schools is a full-page graphic with photos as nonprofit jobs began drying up in the re- than one activity. well as the average GPA and LSAT scores of the class of 2015. Scores for incoming stu- cession, and to maybe – finally – rekindle Practical training is being emphasized dents at Richardson compared favorably with those of the other law schools surveyed. her dream of law school. nationally, and increasingly has become a Richardson placed 11th in the ‘A-’ Honor Roll evaluating the 64 western schools sur- With college under her belt with stel- required part of the law school curricu- veyed, based on their practical training offerings. The school’s practical training, and lo- lar grades in two and a half years, Lor- lum. In 2015 the American Bar Associa- cation in Hawai‘i, and beautiful Mānoa Valley, aren’t all that Hawai‘i’s sole law school has raine applied for Richardson, starting tion added a standard for accreditation to offer, the story notes. Richardson has scored as a Best Value school, as a most diverse classes the same day her best friend, at- that requires all students to complete six law school, and is among the smallest schools, says the magazine’s managing editor, Katie torney Bernice Littman, retired from the credit hours of practical training courses Thisdell. She continued: “And the faculty and staff are supportive of students of all ages Cades Schutte firm. “I went to her retire- in order to graduate. That has been a stan- and their families.”  ment party during orientation week,”

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says Lorraine. In her three years at Richardson, Lorraine has held two part-time jobs,

become a favorite among her classmates  UH Law School’s as a ‘go to’ student always ready to help out, and stood out as someone everyone knows in the Law Library because she’s the one behind the desk who also hands Largest Class Ever out the earplugs. But she worried at first that other Graduates In Sunny Ceremony with 1,000 in Attendance students would hesitate to accept a white-haired woman old enough to be their grandma. On the Monday morning after the costume party that first-year students throw annually for their second and third-year classmates, her fears evaporated. “In Contracts class they awarded me a little trophy for the scariest costume,” she remembers. “That was so sweet of them, and that’s when I knew they had accepted me. But I had to tell the class the truth - that it wasn’t a costume; it was just me, an old woman with no makeup. I just put my head under the tap, washed off all my makeup, put my wet hair up in HE LARGEST CLASS IN THE UH rollers, dangled a cigarette from my lips, Law School’s 43-year history graduated and put on an old white nightgown. I Kay Lorraine on graduation day, May 14, 2017. Sunday afternoon, May 14, including said ‘Think of me as the Ghost of Christ- 110 graduates earning JD degrees, and mas Future.’” four earning Masters of Law degrees. Lorraine is also a favorite among fac- was a salad for me the next day. You can’t Professor Troy Andrade ‘11, Interim Richardson Law School Dean Avi Soi- ulty members. At the Law Library, Vic- not like her. She’s the den mother for the Director of the Ulu Lehua program, fer called the 2017 graduates - “a class toria Szymczak, Associate Professor and whole Law School.” called her “smart, dedicated and articu- that takes hold of things” - and faculty Law Library Director, thinks of her as Adds Miller: “Anyone who’s ever late, and someone who is going to make a commencement speaker Calvin Pang ‘the plant whisperer.’ been within 1,000 miles of Kay knows big difference in our community.” ‘85 urged them to “work out of love, not “We wanted some greenery in the she has a heart of gold, is the life of the During the annual Ulu Lehua ban- hatred. Library and Kay took it upon herself to party, and one of the funniest people on quet Andrade remembers Lorraine shar- “I want you never to be a technocrat, nurture our plants so we wouldn’t kill the planet.” ing her early concerns about how the never a cog in the machinery of justice,” them,” said Szymczak. “She was able to At Richardson, and elsewhere, Lor- other students would react to her. “She Pang told them. “May you always be fully coax our Peace Lily to bloom and right raine has been an inspiration. An ac- said that it was a huge compliment that human. Always be compassionate.” now we have six blooms on it. I will al- quaintance in his 40s who never finished by the end of the time in Law School no Pang, as the speaker chosen by the ways think of her as the Peace Lily Whis- college told her that she has inspired one called her ‘Auntie.’ She was just one students to give the annual Faculty Ad- perer.” him to go back to college and finish his of them, a student.” dress, reminded students that he has seen And Professor Frances Miller, a vis- degree. Author C.S. Lewis is often quoted Lorraine doesn’t yet know what kind their struggles, their courage and their iting faculty member from Boston Uni- as saying: “You are never too old to set of law she’ll practice, but she has in- persistence. And he used a thin-skinned versity, remembers the day she arrived in another goal or to dream a new dream.” terned in family law with Greg Ryan & tangerine in an analogy for doing the the morning to find a ready-to-eat salad Professor Miller notes that over her 45 Associates, and favors elder and health tough, right thing – mentioning his belief taped on her office door. The day before, years of teaching, she’s had just four or law. “I would love to be Perry Mason, but Hawai‘i Attorney General Doug Chin ‘96 Miller had admired the delicious-look- five students whose ages can even begin it takes a lot of time to build up a practice did the right thing when the state sued ing salad Lorraine was having for lunch, to compete with Lorraine’s, and they’ve in criminal litigation, and right now I’m President Trump, and prevailed, over the and Lorraine responded by bringing a all brought a rich, deep dimension to dis- focused on passing the Bar Exam,” says President’s revised Muslim travel ban. salad for Miller the following day. cussions in the classroom. Lorraine. But she is also happily accept- The JD graduates included 14 mem- “That’s not what you usually find on “I’m a big fan of exercising that brain ing job offers.  bers of the Evening Part-Time Program. your door,” chuckles Miller. “I had just muscle however and whenever you can,” It was launched in 2008 to provide op- said ‘Where did you get it?’ And there says Miller. “And what better than this?” portunities for those with professional,

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financial, or family obligations to attend evening classes. The May 2017 graduation was held under sunny skies, but with sturdy breez- es at Andrews Amphitheater, with more than 1,000 families and friends in attendance. Emily Reese was there to see her granddaughter, Alyssa Simbahon ’17 graduate. “I feel like I’m walking on air,” said Reese. “I’m thrilled to death.” And Tina Gray was there to see her son, Taylor Gray ’17, graduate. “It’s the culmination of a lifetime thing,” she said. “He was born to

We owe everyone“ tolerance,“ mutual respect, and discourse.

be a lawyer.” Elyse Oyama ’17 served as Master of Ceremonies for the afternoon; Leah Bal- lantyne gave the LLM student address; Michele Nakata gave the JD Address for the Evening Part-Time Program; Rochelle Sugawa gave the JD address; and Judge Barbara ‘Bebe’ Richardson (ret.) presented the Class of 2017. In a Richardson tradition two hours before the graduation, 26 children – a few of them born during their parents’ final year of Law School - were honored and received their own diplomas of recognition. “There’s no way all the students would make it through Law School without the support of all their families,” said Associate Faculty Specialist Liam Skilling ‘07, as Dean Soifer handed diplomas to the keiki. “I entered the Law School with one

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child,” explained Skilling, who is Director of the Evening Part-Time Program and Academic Success, “and left with two.” Also highlighting the graduation were remarks by two judges involved in recent rulings about Executive power. Se- attle Federal District Judge James Robart, who triggered national and international headlines by halting President Trump’s first Executive Order on travel and immigration from seven predominantly Mus- lim countries, was the Commencement speaker. Six days after Robart issued a temporary restraining order, Robart’s decision was upheld by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that included Senior Judge Richard Clifton. The UH be- stowed an honorary law degree on Clifton who has taught courses at Richardson, and has arranged for panels of the Ninth Circuit to hear cases regularly in the Law School’s Moot Court Room, providing a valuable learning experience for law students. While neither Robart nor Clifton could speak directly about the case, Ro- bart pointed out that Texas similarly had standing to halt Obama administration Executive Orders and to stall ‘Dreamers’ from gaining legal residency. “Be careful what you ask for,” Robart cautioned. “The precedent Texas created to resist immigration practices it didn’t like is now being used to challenge other Administration orders. “When you’re analyzing questions,” he told the graduates, “try and foresee the unexpected consequences, and argue for the best policy.” Robart said that in the wake of his ruling he received 35,000 communications from the public, many of whom were an- gry at his decision. He said many told him “you’re not going to be re-elected.” Robart’s judgeship is a lifetime appointment. “We can disagree without condemna- tion,” he said, reflecting on what happened after his decision. “We owe everyone tolerance, mutual respect, and discourse. My fondest hope is that when anyone leaves my courtroom they feel they were heard, and treated with respect.” Clifton was circumspect in his re-

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marks. “When you see a result you don’t like, resist the temptation to blame,” he advised. “Judges sometimes have to make decisions they’re not very happy with.” Clifton shared some of his personal history with the graduates, their friends and families, telling the crowd that “fate

can change your whole life.” He referred to being accepted after law school for a clerkship with the Ninth Circuit’s Judge Herbert Y. C. Choy, who was the first person of Korean ancestry admitted to the Bar in the U.S., and the first person of Asian American ancestry to be appointed a federal judge. As a result, Clif- ton practiced law in Hawai‘i and made it his home. In 2002 he was appointed to the Ninth Circuit and told the crowd that “50 Richardson graduates” had worked in his chambers since then, and that, with his new honorary degree, he could now also proudly claim to be a ‘Richardson lawyer.’

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Dear WSRSL Alumni and Friends:

I want to share the excitement we are feeling at Richardson these days. Our new state-of-the-art Clinical Building is going up quickly. Even though it took a huge crane to lift pre-cast walls into place, the project is proceeding on schedule and within budget and completion is expected in December 2017.

Beginning spring semester 2018, the building is certain to enhance our nationally ranked clinics and practical training programs. It also will further support the access to justice that we provide to our community, particularly to those who are most in need.

It is thrilling that a goal we have pursued virtually from the start of my deanship is finally coming to fruition. You have been a tremendous help at every step of the way and your commitment is a real source of pride as well as of great gratitude.

I write now because we do need further help to complete this project, including appropriate technology and furniture for this impressive building. It will provide an attractive entrance to our Law School, replacing the old familiar dumpsters and the dark corridor from Lot 17, through which many people, including U.S. Supreme Court justices, have entered for decades.

We will be most grateful for a gift of any size to help us finish this project. Everything helps, and we are anxious to replace the tuition money that was pledged to finance the 30-year revenue bonds, so that what our students pay in tuition can be used more appropriately for scholarships, faculty, and program support.

A few of the options include donor recognition on the recognition wall in the new building for a minimum gift of $10,000, which can be paid over 5 years. The recognition wall will be prominently featured in the atrium entrance to the new building. Another possibility is to form a “hui” with at least four classmates or friends to join you at $10,000 each--this will allow you to name an office in the new building and to create a “talk story” plaque that will be read by generations of future students.

Please call Julie Levine at 808.956.8395 or e-mail her at [email protected] and she can answer any questions and provide more details about these and other options.

Mahalo nui and warm aloha,

Dean and Professor Avi Soifer

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