William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
KE KULA KĀNĀWAI
“The Law School”
Volume 8, No. 20
Week of Feb. 23, 2004
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONGRATULATIONS and mahalo to our student teams who
competed in three different competitions this past week. We are proud
of each of you and your hard work!
CLIENT COUNSELING COMPETITION: JASON MINAMI 2L and
DORIS LUM 2L won first place and will proceed to nationals!
RHONDA CHING 3L and KATHRYN KAM 3L came in third. 12
teams from 6 schools participated. This year’s problem involved
nuisance law. Our school has won the regional competition 7 of the
past 9 years, including last year. PROF. CALVIN PANG and
ANGELA LOVITT ’97 coached our teams and ASSISTANT DEAN
LAURIE TOCHIKI was the tournament coordinator for this year’s
event held at our school.
ENVIRONMENTAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION: Our team
advanced to the quarterfinals at the Pace University Annual
Environmental Moot Court Competition in New York, again putting
our school in the top third of teams. Both SUMMER KUPAU 3L and
JENNIFER CARPENTER 3L took Best Oralist awards in preliminary
rounds. SUMMER, JENNIFER and teammate MARTI TOWNSEND
2L were also joined by SHAWN BENTON 2L, the team assistant who
organized all of the practices at school. Faculty advisor is PROF.
CASEY JARMAN.
JESSUP INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION: Our
team collected 3 of the 6 awards given at the regional competition this
weekend in Berkeley. MARION REYES-BURKE 3L was selected First
Place Oralist and JAMIE QUIRK 2L was Third Place Oralist. Our
team’s memorials (briefs) were picked as THE BEST among all 12
teams in the regional competition, and will be sent on to Washington
for consideration for a national prize. The other members the team are
KATIE LAMBERT 2L, STEPHEN MORGAN 2L and JENNIFER
MESSICK 2L. The team won three of the four preliminary rounds, and
went into the semi-final round against UC-Berkeley, but was
eliminated in what the judges said was an excruciatingly close call.
PROF. JON VAN DYKE is the team advisor.
JAPANESE VISITORS. At least 7 different delegations from Japan
will visit our law school in the next 6 weeks. 70 new law schools will
open in Japan on April 1. Delegations include the national universities
in Hokkaido, Kumamoto, the Ryukyus and Shimame, two private
institutions, Osaka Gakuin University and Omiya Law School, and a
group from the Nagano Prefecture Bar Association.
DARYL
ARAKAKI ‘90 will lead the Osaka Gakuin group.
HILO RECEPTION. DEAN AVI SOIFER, ASSISTANT DEAN
LAURIE TOCHIKI and DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DOUG
JANES will travel to Hilo on Feb. 27 to meet with Big Island alumni.
Spring 2004 On Campus Interviews have started. SCOTT SIMON ‘98
of Watanabe Ing Kawashima & Komeiji and RYAN SANADA ‘00 of
Imanaka Kudo & Fujimoto came to interview students on behalf of
their firms. Other participating employers: Legal Aid Society,
McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon, US Army JAG Corps and Law
Office of William Darrah.
WELCOME to PROF. STAN LAUGHLIN, our newest visiting
scholar. PROF. LAUGHLIN, here for 6 – 8 weeks, is on the faculty at
Ohio State and was a visiting professor at our law school in the mid
1970’s. He is a distinguished writer about Pacific Island affairs.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH. On Mar. 5, 1845, Macon Bolling Allen
became the first licensed black lawyer in the United States, admitted in
Massachusetts. On Feb. 1, 1865, the same day Congress approved the
13th Amendment ending slavery, Charles Summer introduced a motion
that made John Swett Rock the first black attorney to be admitted to
argue in the U.S. Supreme Court. On Nov. 24, 1890, Everett J.
Waring and Joseph S. Davis became the first black lawyers to argue
before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Feb. 27, 1872, Charlotte E. Ray
received her law degree from Howard University and became the first
black woman certified as a lawyer in the United States. Ray opened her
own practice in Washington D.C., but racial prejudices proved too
strong and she could not maintain an active practice. On Jan. 29, 1926,
Violette Neatly Anderson of Chicago became the first black female
lawyer admitted before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1898, Thomas
McCants Stewart became the first African American attorney to
practice in Hawaii. Stewart represented Chinese clients in immigration
cases. See Black History Month display at law library.
FACULTY
DAVID CALLIES’ chapter on Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty will
appear with nine other chapters on the most important property cases
ever decided, in Property Stories, published by Foundation Press
(Korngold and Morriss, editors). 3L's SUMMER KUPAU, JOSH
MEDEIROS and TRICIA NAKAMATSU contributed to the research.
CHARLES LAWRENCE, Visiting Scholar, spoke to 60-70 attendees
on Feb. 19 in the first of three lecture series on education. This
program was entitled “Forbidden Conversations: On Race, Privacy and
Community. Future programs: Mar. 18 “Who is the Child Left Behind?
The Racial Meaning of the New School Reform” and Apr. 8 “The Poor
Still Pay More: Charters, Vouchers, Educational Management
Organizations and The Illusion of Choice.” Public invited.
CALVIN PANG, JIM PIETSCH and CJ WILLIAM S.RICHARDSON
on behalf of the University of Hawaii Elder Law Program (UHELP)
and the Elder Law Clinic Program participated in an educational
program about the importance of preventive law for older persons at
the Lunalilo Home on Feb. 18, 2004. UHELP and the elder law clinic
plan to provide individual services to residents over the semester.
JON VAN DYKE’s chapter "Giving Teeth to the Environmental
Obligations in the Law of the Sea Convention" will appear in Oceans
Management in the 21st Century (A.G. Oude Elferink and D.R.
Rothwell eds. 2004). In Jan. PROF. VAN DYKE participated in a
meeting in Japan with Japanese and Korean professors examining the
historical and legal issues on the Japanese annexation of Korea in
1910. He gave the paper "Reconciliation Between Korea and Japan."
STUDENTS
Congratulations to GRACE CHANG YONEHARA 3L and the birth of
a baby girl last week.
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