William S. Richardson School of Law

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William S. Richardson
School of Law
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Motto Ma luna aʻe o na lahui a pau ke ola ke kanaka (Hawaiian)
Above all nations is humanity
Parent school University of Hawaii at Manoa
Established 1973
School type Public
Dean Aviam Soifer[1]
Location Honolulu, HI, United States
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Enrollment 257[2]
Faculty 52[2]
USNWR ranking 82[3]
Website http://www.law.hawaii.edu/
ABA profile William S. Richardson School of Law Profile
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The University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law is a public law school located in the U.S. state of Hawaii in Honolulu. Named after its patriarch, former Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice William S. Richardson, a zealous advocate of Hawaiian culture,[4] it is the state's only law school.[5]

Likely reflecting its importance to Hawaii and embracing the state's unique social and cultural values, Richardson's mission is to be "a collaborative, multicultural community preparing students for excellence in the practice of law and related careers that advance justice and the rule of law."[6] To this end, Richardson's regime of legal studies places special emphasis on fields of law of particular importance to Hawaii and the surrounding Pacific and Asian region, including Native Hawaiian Law, Pacific-Asian Legal Studies, Environmental Law, and maritime law.[7]

A member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the school is accredited by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association (ABA).[8] It offers a Juris Doctor, with certificates available in Native Hawaiian Law, Pacific-Asian Legal Studies, and Environmental Law, with students able to matriculate either full-time or part-time. It also offers an Advanced Juris Doctor, for foreign students who have earned a law degree abroad, and a LLM.

For 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked Richardson amongst the nation's top law schools at 82.[3] Richardson's part-time program was ranked 30th.[9] Notably, Richardson is the smallest law school ranked in the top tier.

William S. Richardson

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Main article: William S. Richardson

A former Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice, William S. Richardson, the school's patriarch, was known for his fierce advocacy of Hawaiian culture, departing from western legal tradition to shape the state's emerging canon of law to reflect its own unique customs via numerous landmark decisions.[5]

The establishment of the Law School in 1973, was widely considered Richardson's crowning career achievement. For many years, he had pressed the Hawaii State Legislature for its creation, arguing that the state would benefit by providing a legal education for its residents that enveloped its cultural customs—because they had the greatest stake in constructing the state's legal traditions going forward as such. At his retirement, the Law School was named in his honor.

Ethos

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Main article: Kānāwai Māmalahoe
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Kānāwai Māmalahoe, on a plaque under the Kamehameha Statues.

The spirit of Richardson's culture as a community devoted to the study of law is manifested in Kānāwai Māmalahoe, the fundamental precept of Hawaiian law.

Originating in a royal edict by King Kamehameha I in 1797, galvanizing the Kingdom of Hawai'i’s legal system, Kānāwai Māmalahoe, or Law of the Splintered Paddle, was enshrined later in the Hawaii State Constitution, Article 9, Section 10.[10]

According to Hawaiian legend, Kānāwai Māmalahoe was declared by King Kamehameha after an incident where he chased two fishermen who were fishing illegally, when he caught his leg in the reef, and one of the fisherman, Kaleleiki, hit him mightily on the head with a paddle in defense, which broke into pieces. Luckily, Kamehameha was able to escape. Years later, Kamehameha held, when the same fisherman was brought before him to account for the incident, that in the interest of justice he should be released, as he had only been searching for food for his family.[10]

Reflecting Kānāwai Māmalahoe, Richardson’s maintains a “commitment . . . to a collaborative community that is deeply committed to the . . . pursuit of social and economic justice” for all.[6] Reflecting this commitment, Richardson's unofficial logo is Kaleleiki, the fisherman.

Historical timeline

Jump To: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

1970s

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University of Hawaii at Mānoa Campus With The William S. Richardson School of Law Library In Background
  • 1968- The Hawaii State Legislature established the William S. Richardson School of Law.[11]
  • 1973- Richardson welcomed its first class, including 53 students.
  • 1972- David Hood appointed Dean.
  • 1976- Jerome Dupont appointed Acting Dean.
  • 1977- Cliff Thompson appointed Dean.
  • 1978- Richardson holds first Ete Bowl.

1980s

  • 1981- Richard Miller appointed Dean.
  • 1982- The American Bar Association granted William S. Richardson School of Law full accreditation.
  • 1982- Richardson sends first Moot Court Team to competition.
  • 1983- Richardson Law Library opens.
  • 1985- Jeremy Harrison appointed Dean.

1990s

  • 1995- Lawrence Foster appointed Dean.

2000s

  • 2008- Richardson established a part-time evening law program.[16]

2010s

  • 2011- Professor Jon Van Dyke died.

Rankings

2016

  • U.S. News & World Report ranked Richardson 82nd amongst the nation's top law schools.[3] Richardson's Part-time program was ranked 30th.[18] Notably, Richardson is the nation's smallest law school ranked in the top tier.[18]

Employment

According to Richardson's official 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 50.9% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.[19] Richardson's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 25%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. .[20]

Costs

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at the University of Hawaii for the 2014-2015 academic year is $37,934 for residents of HI and $57,662 for non-residents.[21] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years is $135,422 for residents and $211,473 for non-residents.[22]

Academics

Juris Doctor

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The William S. Richardson School of Law Library

Richardson offers a Juris Doctor (JD), with certificates available in Native Hawaiian Law, Pacific-Asian Legal Studies, and Environmental Law, with students able to matriculate either full-time or part-time.

Advanced Juris Doctor & LLM

Richardson also offers an Advanced Juris Doctor, offering advanced standing to foreign-trained students, allowing them to earn the Juris Doctor degree in less time, by applying their foreign legal training. It also offers a LLM.

Dual Juris Doctor programs

Working through the University of Hawaii at Manoa Graduate Division, JD students can earn a dual degree or certificate; that is, a JD and a graduate degree and/or certificate.

According to Richardson, its Juris Doctor students most commonly pursue the following dual degrees:

  • JD/MBA
  • JD/MSW
  • JD/MPH
  • JD/MA

Joint Juris Doctor programs

The University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and Richardson have a joint legal education program. Participating in the program, students from either school can earn a Juris Doctor from both.

Institutes, programs & centers

Institutes

  • Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law
The Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law was established in June 2006 by the Law School. The Institute's goal is to become the premier academic center for research and training in the rapidly growing field of business law in Asia and the Pacific.[23] The Institute focuses on areas of great importance to Asia and Hawaii, including commercial law, insolvency and secured transactions, corporate law and business transactions, securities, intellectual property, real estate financing, and labor law issues. The Institute's activities facilitate direct exchanges between the academic, legal, and business communities in Hawaii and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. To date, the Institute has organized three international symposia. The Inaugural Symposium was held in Hawaii in April 2007, and two symposia were held in Hong Kong, in October 2007 and March 2008.
  • Hammurabi Legal Forum
The Hammurabi Legal Forum for the Rule of Law (HLF) was established in 2008 at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law to aid law schools in Iraq re-invigorate the country's rich tradition of scholarship.[24] By providing an easily accessible online database of free legal resources, HLF originally sought to provide information on issues that are important to Iraq and the Iraqi legal community. In 2009, the HLF expanded its efforts to assist Rule of Law activities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In 2010, HLF further expanded its research to incorporate additional regions of the globe, including Afghanistan and the Pacific Region, with a special focus on Timor-Leste.

Programs

  • Hawaii Innocence Project
The Hawaii Innocence Project’s mission is to provide pro bono representation to incarcerated persons who have a credible claim of actual innocence and desire to appeal their conviction.[25][26]
  • University of Hawaii Elder Law Program (UHELP)
Operating throughout the year, UHELP provides Hawaii's elder community basic legal assistance, advice and information.[27] UHELP has a professor/attorney, a program administrator/legal assistant and several student law clerks.[28]

Centers

  • Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law
Established in 2005 through a Native Hawaiian Education Act grant, the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law is an academic center that promotes education, scholarship, community outreach and collaboration on issues of law, culture and justice for Native Hawaiians and other Pacific and Indigenous peoples.[29] Ka Huli Ao focuses on education, research and scholarship, community outreach, and the preservation of invaluable historical, legal, and traditional and customary materials. It also offers new courses and supports Native Hawaiian and other law students as they pursue legal careers and leadership roles.[30][31]
  • Hawaii Health Law Policy Center
The Health Law Policy Center aims to 1) to conduct and disseminate research on health law policy aimed at improving health care access in Hawaii; 2) to serve as a focus for multidisciplinary research, teaching, and discourse on health law and policy in the context of Hawaii; and 3) to bring community leaders, health care policymakers, and multidisciplinary faculty members and students together to study, examine, and devise solutions to health care shortages and other barriers to access in Hawaii’s rural, impoverished, or otherwise underserved communities.[32]

Scholarly publications

University of Hawaii Law Review

The University of Hawaii Law Review is a scholarly legal journal run by students that publishes works authored by distinguished jurists, scholars and practitioners, covering diverse areas of the law. In addition to publishing two issues annually, the University of Hawaii Law Review hosts a biennial symposium that brings together the legal community to discuss relevant legal issues.

Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal

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Main article: Asian–Pacific Law & Policy Journal

The Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ) is a biannual scholarly legal journal covering issues in Pacific-Asian law. The journal aspires to disseminate legal research by law professors, legal practitioners, social scientists and economists, and students to increase awareness of issues of regional concern. In addition to its web format, the journal is available through the legal databases LexisNexis and Westlaw.

Visiting tribunals & jurist-in-residence programs

Visiting tribunals

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit & Hawaii Supreme Court

Each year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sits specially at the school to hear some appeals from the United States District Court for the Districts of Hawaii and Guam.[33][34] The Hawaii Supreme Court also sits regularly.[35][36]

Jurist-in-residence programs

Bright International Jurist-in-Residence Program

Started in 2007, under the tutelage of Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit, Myron H Bright, the Bright International Jurist-in-Residence program hosts international jurists to facilitate dialogue with the wider community and the school's faculty and staff.

Year Tribunal Visiting Judge
2007 Israel Supreme Court Judge Aharon Barak
2010 International Court of Justice, The Hague His Excellency President Hisashi Owada

U.S. Supreme Court Jurist-in-Residence Program

Instituted in 1987, with the support of Myron H. Bright, a Senior Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit, Richardson has a U.S. Supreme Court Jurist-In-Residence Program. Biannually, a visiting U.S. Supreme Court Justice presents seminars on current judicial issues as well as teaches classes.[37] Since 2000, a Honolulu law firm, Case Lombardi & Pettit, has provided sponsorship for the program.[38]

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Teaching Richardson Civil Procedure Class, 2011
Year Visiting US Supreme Court Justice
2014 Justice Antonin Scalia[39]
2012 Justice Sonia Sotomayor[40]
2011 Justice Samuel Alito[41]
2008 Justice Stephen Breyer[42]
2006 Justice Anthony Kennedy[43]
2004 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg[44]
2002 Justice Anthony Kennedy[45]
2000 Justice Antonin Scalia[46]
1998 Justice Anthony Kennedy
1996 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1994 Justice John Paul Stevens
1992 Justice Byron White
1990 Justice John Paul Stevens
1987 Justice John Paul Stevens

Faculty

Jump To: Endowed Professorship Chairs, Notable Faculty

Endowed professorship & faculty chairs

Through the University of Hawaii at Manoa Foundation, Richardson has been endowed with several professorships and faculty chairs.

  • Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law[47]
  • Dan & Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair In Democratic Ideas
  • Fred T. Korematsu Professorship In Law and Social Justice[48]
  • George J Johnson Visiting Professor Endowment
  • Michael J. Marks Distinguished Professor of Business Law[49][50]
  • Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law[51]
  • Carlsmith Ball Faculty Scholar Fund[52]
  • SBS Holdings Co. Korean Faculty Fund[17]

Notable faculty

In 2013,The Princeton Review ranked the Richardson Faculty as the third "Most Diverse Faculty."[53] And, in 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 3rdth of 190 Law Schools for "Smallest Faculty-Student Ratio".[54] The faculty is specialized in an array of legal areas.

Current notable faculty
  • David L. Callies, Preeminent Scholar of the Law of Real Property
  • Tae-Ung Baik, Former Korean Prisoner of Conscience,[55] Specialist in International Human Rights Law and Korean Law
  • Danielle Conway
  • Mari Matsuda, Activist Legal Scholar, Lawyer, First Tenured Female Asian-American Law Professor
  • Randall Roth
  • Richard W. Pollack
  • Aviam Soifer, Constitutional Law Scholar, Former Dean of Boston College Law School
  • Eric Yamamoto, Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice,[56] Namesake of the Nationwide Consortium of Asian Pacific American Lawyer's "Professor Eric Y. Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award,"[57] best known for his work on racial justice, including redress and reconciliation
Former faculty
  • Chris Iijima, Legal Scholar, Asian-American Civil Rights Activist, Folk Singer (Deceased)
  • Jon Van Dyke, Constitutional Law Scholar, Lawyer, Activist (Deceased)[58]

Students

Student body

Admission to Richardson is highly selective, and the caliber of the student body reflects this. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 25th of 190 Law Schools for "Most Selective". In addition, Richardson is recognized for its highly diverse student body. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked it 1st of 190 Law Schools for "Diversity Index,"[59] while Princeton Review ranked it "Best Environment for Minority Students."[60]

Law student pledge

Adopted in 2002 as an aspirational reflection of Kānāwai Māmalahoe, all Richardson students recite the Law Student Pledge, written by late Professor Chris Iijima, before a Hawaii Supreme Court Justice during a special ceremony before they begin their legal education.

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Richardson Students Reciting Law Student Pledge At Hawaii Supreme Court

The Pledge is:

In the study of law, I will conscientiously prepare myself;

To advance the interests of those I serve before my own,

To approach my responsibilities and colleagues with integrity, professionalism, and civility,

To guard zealously legal, civil and human rights which are the birthright of all people,

And, above all,

To endeavor always to seek justice.

This I do pledge.

Student organizations

Richardson sponsors numerous student organizations, including:[61]

  • 'Ahahui O Hawai'i
  • Advocates For Public Interest Law (APIL)
  • American Inns of Court (The Hon. James S. Burns Aloha Chapter of the Inns of Court[62])
  • American Bar Association-Student Chapter
  • Black Law Student Association (BLSA)
  • Christian Legal Society (CLS)
  • Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity (DTP)
  • Environmental Law Society (ELS)
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The Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Organization's (PALSO) Annual Lunar New Year Party. PALSO is one of the school's biggest student organizations
  • Federalist Society
  • Filipino Law School Association (FLSA)
  • Hammurabi Legal Forum
  • Hawaii Women's Lawyers
  • La Alianza
  • Lambda Law Student Association
  • Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Organization (PALSO)
  • Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity
  • Richardson Golf Association
  • Running Group
  • Self Defense Club
  • Soccer Club
  • Street Law
  • Student Animal League Defense Fund (SALDF)
  • Student Bar Association (SBA)
  • Students With Keiki
  • Sustainable Richardson
  • TED Richardson

Moot Court teams

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Richardson Students Competing At The 2012 Native American Law Student Association Competition Finals At Hawaii Supreme Court in Honolulu

Richardson fields Moot Court teams, composed of students, in competitions across many legal areas.[63]

In addition, Richardson fields a competitive Client Counseling Team.

Moot court teams

  • Environmental Moot Court Team
  • Hispanic Moot Court Team
  • Saul Lefkowtiz Intellectual Property Moot Court Team
  • International Environmental Moot Court Team
  • International Negotiations Team
  • Mock Trial Team
  • Native American Moot Court Team
  • Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Team
  • Robert F. Wagner Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Team
  • Space Law Moot Court Team

Law school traditions

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Ete Bowl Football Teams

A list of some of Richardson's traditions:

  • Student Pledge
Adopted in 2002 as an aspirational reflection of Kānāwai Māmalahoe, all Richardson students recite the Law Student Pledge, written by late Professor Chris Iijima, before a Hawaii Supreme Court Justice during a special ceremony before they begin their legal education.
  • Ete Bowl
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Stew Day
Starting in 1978, Richardson--in a tradition that promotes school spirit and camaraderie amongst students--holds a yearly alumnae v. female law students flag football game.[64][65] The Alumnae ("Bruzers") and UH Law Student ("Etes") teams are composed entirely of female students, while cheerleaders are composed of male students dressed in drag.[66]
  • Stew Day
Begun by Professor Calvin Pang, every year on Stew Day, the Richardson Faculty dress up in goofy hats and aprons and serve a stew lunch to the students.[67] Recently added to Stew Day, Professor Pang orchestrated the “Red Socks Award” – in honor of Dean Aviam Soifer, a Boston Red Sox Fan. However, the Award is not intended to celebrate the Red Sox rather stories of heroism and inspiration. Students submit stories about classmates who have extended themselves in ways that inspire others.

Notable alumni

Politics

Judiciary

Academia

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