Thursday, April 9, 2009 ANNOUNCEMENTS • AVI SOIFER announced that our next Associate Dean for Academic Affairs will be CASEY JARMAN. Avi asked the faculty to nominate candidates for the position and consulted widely about what person would be the best choice. Avi told students on Monday, "Casey received enthusiastic support from virtually everyone who responded, and I am very pleased and thankful that she has agreed to serve. Casey founded our Environmental Law Program and she recently spent two years on leave while she served as County Clerk for the Big Island. She has had many years at the Law School as an outstanding teacher, scholar, and administrator. "Of course Dean Beh's 'slippahs' cannot be filled, but I certainly concur in the widespread confidence that Professor Jarman will be a most able successor when she takes over for Hazel Beh this summer. Please join me in expressing gratitude to Professor Jarman and Dean Beh, and in congratulating Casey Jarman on her new role and Hazel Beh on her return fulltime to the faculty." FACULTY
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• AVI SOIFER announced that our next Associate Dean for Academic Affairs will be CASEY
JARMAN. Avi asked the faculty to nominate candidates for the position and consulted widely
about what person would be the best choice.
Avi told students on Monday, "Casey received enthusiastic support from virtually everyone who
responded, and I am very pleased and thankful that she has agreed to serve. Casey founded our
Environmental Law Program and she recently spent two years on leave while she served as
County Clerk for the Big Island. She has had many years at the Law School as an outstanding
teacher, scholar, and administrator.
"Of course Dean Beh's 'slippahs' cannot be filled, but I certainly concur in the widespread
confidence that Professor Jarman will be a most able successor when she takes over for Hazel Beh
this summer. Please join me in expressing gratitude to Professor Jarman and Dean Beh, and in
congratulating Casey Jarman on her new role and Hazel Beh on her return fulltime to the
faculty."
FACULTY
• Over an informal lunch on April 6, the FACULTY visited with Richard Parsons, chairman of the
board of Citigroup, the international financial conglomerate, who is also an economic advisor to
President Obama. Richard Parsons came to Honolulu as the 2009 Dan and Maggie Inouye
Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals, a position shared by the Law School and American
Studies.
• MAXINE BURKETT has been elected to represent the Law School in the Mānoa Faculty Senate.
She joins Senator DENISE ANTOLINI and will serve for 28 months beginning on May 1.
• ALISON CONNER's article, "English as a Second Language for Americans?" appeared in 36
International Association of Law Libraries 94 (2008).
• LARRY FOSTER was recently appointed as an Arbitrator for the Shanghai Arbitration
Commission.
• LINDA HAMILTON KRIEGER gave the invocation at the Hawai‘i Senate on April 3.
• MARK LEVIN and SUSAN SERANNO '98 served on a subcommittee of the Supreme Court
Committee on Equality and Access to the Courts that developed a Hawai‘i State Judiciary Bias
Awareness and Prevention Guide at the request of Chief Justice Moon. The guide was distributed to
all Hawai‘i judges and judiciary employees.
• JIM PIETSCH and his wife, Gen. Coral Wong Pietsch, will jointly deliver the Brendan F. Brown
Lecture, “Reinvigorating the Rule of Law in Iraq,” at the Catholic University of America
Columbus School of Law on April 20.
• JON VAN DYKE was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Kahala Sunrise breakfast meeting
on April 1 at the Waialae Country Club. The subject of his presentation, “Who Owns the Crown
Lands?” proved to be especially timely because the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its
decision on the Apology Resolution the day before. DIANE CHANG, president of the Kahala
Sunrise Rotary, is a student in the Part-Time Program.
• JUNICHI YATSUO, a Visiting Scholar from Kinki University in Osaka, Japan, will be conducting
research in tax law at the Law School for three months.
ADMINISTRATION
• The Law School's CHILD WELFARE PROJECT was a proud sponsor and participant in the
‘Ohana Is Forever III Conference on March 30 at the Ala Moana Hotel. Over 450 people
participated, including 150 foster youths, 200 DHS workers and community advocates, and 100
foster parents, judicial branch employees, and legal advocates. Six Family Court judges from
Oahu and Hawai‘i were also in attendance and 22 vendors participated, representing a wide
range of higher education, education advocacy, legal rights advocacy, job training, health
education, arts, mental health, ILP, and youth organizations. Conference materials are available
at www.hawaiifosterparent.org/. Click on the ‘Ohana Is Forever III link.
STUDENTS
• ADVOCATES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LAW (APIL) sponsored the first annual Run for Justice
on April 5. With over 130 registered participants and many additional volunteers, the event
clearly accomplished its envisioned purposes: to raise awareness and interest in the practice of
public interest law; to bridge gaps between the Law School and the Bar; to familiarize people
with the public interest legal community; and to garner financial and other support for APIL and
APIL grants. The event attracted dozens of attorneys and other members of the legal community,
including retired Hawai'i Supreme Court Justice Steven Levinson and our namesake, CJ, as well
as students, faculty, staff, and their families.
• This photo of the Can Do Kaho‘olawe Crew, many of whom are members of the 'AHAHUI O
HAWAI'I, was taken on Spring Break trip to Kaho‘olawe. Hawai‘i Pictured are Gary Nelson '11,
David Kopper '11, Ha'aheo Kaho'ohalahala '11, Scott Shishido '10, Kau'i Yamane '10, Davis Price
'10, Malia Gibson '10, Ashley Obrey '09, Sheri Tavares '11, Michelle Kim '11, Jenn Lee '11, Malama
Minn '09, Charlie Taylor '11, Max Kopper '11, and Amy Brinker '11.
• The Center for Chinese Studies awarded IVY KIM '11 an Eu Tong Sen Memorial Exchange
Scholarship to study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for one semester. Ivy plans to
accept the fellowship in spring 2010. SETH BUCKLEY '10 also was awarded an Eu Tong Sen
scholarship and he is studying in Hong Kong this spring.
• EMMIT FORD '09 and BYRON WALKER '09 made it to the semi-finals of the
INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS COMPETITION at the 41st National Black Law Student
Association Conference in Irvine, CA. After their impressive performances in two rounds, a coin
toss blocked their advance to the final round. Byron reports, "On the bright side we learned a lot
and it was overall a great experience. I believe we put University of Hawai‘i on the map at the
41st National Black Law Student Association Conference through our participation in the
competition."
• PHILLIP C. JESSUP INTERNATIONAL LAW MOOT COURT TEAM members SAM
AUGUST '10, KEE CAMPBELL '09, LINDA ICHIYAMA '10, KEN MILLER '09, and KANAE
NAKAMURA '10 (who won the Super-Regional in Portland, Oregon in February) recently
returned from Washington, DC, where they competed in the national/international rounds. In
each of the four arguments during the preliminary rounds, they had higher "raw points" that
their opponents (based on the scores awarded for oral presentation and for their written
memorials). Because of the rather arcane system of determining victory used in this competition,
however their team was deemed winners in only two rounds, and therefore did not continue into
the final rounds. They defeated Taiwan and the Czech Republic, and lost to Boston College and
University of Detroit-Mercy. Overall, they ranked 41st out of 125 schools in the competition from
around the world. Among the 500 oralists, Kanae ranked 46th, Linda ranked 78th, and Kee
ranked 87th.
ALUMNI
• DOUGLAS SMITH '90, director and head of the Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert's Estate
Planning practice, was named the Elsine Katz Volunteer Leader of the Year for Goodwill
Industries International, Inc.
• MELISSA VINCENTY ’99 and CLARE HANUSZ ’99 have opened the Immigration and
Naturalization Law Group in Honolulu. Clare also is featured in the April 2009 Honolulu
Magazine article, " Undocumented: The state of illegal immigration in Hawai‘i." See