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In keeping with Hawai‘i’s location, culture and history, the School of Law has longemphasized PacificAsian Legal Studies (PALS). Our Pacific Asian courses are moreimportant as American law practice becomes ever more globalized — and they continue toprovide a comparative perspective on the U.S. legal system, which we believe is valuable forall our students. We offer a broad selection of courses on Pacific Asian legal issues:permanent faculty members teach courses on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Philippine Law,as well as a variety of comparative courses on topics like labor or insolvency law.Distinguished visitors offer shorter specialty courses on Asian and Pacific law. We alsoencourage students to broaden their exposure to Asia and the Pacific through externships,language training and law study abroad, as well as through participation in area studiescenters across the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa campus.
William S. Richardson School of LawUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2515 Dole StreetHonolulu, HI 96822
www.law.hawaii.edu/pals
PacificAsian Legal Studies
The William S. Richardson School of Law offersmore courses on Asian law than virtually any otherlaw school in the United States, and we are the onlyAmerican law school to teach Native Hawaiian andPacific Islands law. Our students may take generalAsian comparative and international law courses orchoose from specialized courses on Chinese,Japanese, Korean, or other PacificAsian topics.Students who have AsianPacific research interestsmay work with faculty members in directed studycourses, as well as write their secondyear seminarpapers on AsianPacific topics.
Selected PALS Courses:
Comparative LawInternational Business TransactionsInternational LawAsiaPacific Insolvency LawAsian Comparative Labor LawChinese Business LawJapanese Business LawKorean Business LawHuman Rights in AsiaLaw and Society in ChinaLaw and Society in JapanLaw and Society in KoreaLaw of the PhilippinesPacificIsland Legal SystemsAsian Comparative Environmental LawAsian Pacific Business LawForeign and International Legal ResearchIndigenous Intellectual Property RightsInternational Criminal LawInternational Economic Law and BusinessInternational Environmental LawInternational Human Rights ClinicInternational Intellectual PropertyInternational Ocean LawInternational Protection of Human RightsReadings in Chinese LawTopics in International Legal Studies
PacificAsican Legal Studies Certificate
To recognize students who concentrate in PacificAsian law, we award a certificate in PacificAsianLegal Studies. Students working towards thecertificate may choose to focus on business relatedtopics, for example, or they might concentrate onPacific Islands and Asian legal issues. They mayreceive credit for approved externships in Asia orthe Pacific, as well as for related courses taken inother graduate programs in the University.
Realworld Experience
We actively support the participation of students inexternships in Asia and the Pacific as part of theirlaw school program. PALS students have recentlytraveled to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India,Cambodia, Palau and the Federated States ofMicronesia, where they have worked for a widerange of organizations, including judges’ offices,law firms, international criminal tribunals, UnitedNations agencies and NGOs. Within the last fewyears, PALS students have completed externshipswith law firms in Tokyo, Taipei and Bangkok, aswell as with human rights groups in Cambodia,Dharamsala and Hong Kong. Students may do anexternship during the summer or, with approval,may spend a semester abroad in Asia or the Pacific.
Asia Law Talks
Several times each semester, the PacificAsianLegal Studies faculty invites guest speakers to givepresentations at the law school. These speakersinclude prominent scholars, judges, and lawyersacross a wide variety of fields related to PacificAsian law. Recent Asia Law Talks have featured:
Judge Changho Chung of the Khmer RougeTribunal,"Challenges faced by Mixed Courts" October 4,2013
Professor Lawrence Repeta of Meiji University,
"Japan's Democracy at Risk" August 27, 2013
Professor Changzheng Zhou of NanjingUniversity,"The Plight of China's Migrant Workers," February4, 2013
PacificAsian Legal Studies Faculty
Our core PALS faculty members are actively engaged in current Asian and Pacific legal issues and bring anunusual depth of AsianPacific expertise to their courses. They are recognized nationally and internationallyfortheir scholarship, which they combine with extensive realworld experience. Committed to teaching as wellas to research, they remain — in our Law School’s tradition — exceptionally accessible to students.
TaeUng Baik
..
Associate Professor of Law,
Chair, PacificAsian Legal
Studies
Alison W. Conner
Professor of Law,
Director, International Programs,
LLM Faculty Adviser
Mark A. Levin
Professor of Law
Charles D. Booth. . .
Professor of Law,
Director, Institute of Asian
Pacific Business Law
Ronald C. Brown
Professor of Law
Diane Desierto
Assistant Professor of Law
Lawrence C. Foster
Professor of Law
Carole J. Petersen
Professor & Director of the
Spark M. Matsunaga Institute
for Peace and Conflict
Resolution
Keiko Okuhara
Bibliographic Services,
Systems Librarian
Selected Recent Faculty Activities:
Professor Diane Desierto gave a lecture at the Fourth
Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law
hosted by the Indian Society of International Law in New
Delhi, India on November 15, 2013.
Professor Charles Booth presented his first lecture to a group
of Mongolian judges as part of the IDLO/EBRD Commercial
Law Judicial Training Program in Mongolia on October 9,
2013.
Professor TaeUng Baik spoke about at the 5th Annual Asian
Constitutional Law Forum hosted by Tsinghua University
Law School in Beijing, China, on October 19–20, 2013.
Professor Ronald Brown gave a talk at the annual conference
of the European China Law Studies Association hosted by
Oxford University Law Faculty and the ChinaEU Law
School in Oxford on September 1920, 2013.
Professor Mark Levin chaired the 4th Plenary Session and
was keynote speaker for a symposium on “Tobacco Industry
Interference with Government Policy” at the 10th Asia Pacific
Conference on Tobacco or Health (APACT), in Tokyo, Japan
from August 1821, 2013.
Selected Faculty Publications:
TaeUng Baik,Emerging Human Rights Systems in Asia Cambridge
University Press, Dec. 2012.
Charles D. Booth, et al. Report on the Treatment of the Insolvency of
Natural Persons World Bank, April 2013.
Ronald C. Brown, Comparative Alternative Dispute Resolution for
Individual Labor Disputes in Japan, China, and the United States:
Lessons from Asia?, 86 St. John's L. Rev., 2012.
Alison W. Conner, "Training China's Lawyers: Enduring Influences
and Disconnects," in Stanley Lubman, ed., The Evolution of Law
Reform in China: An Uncertain Path, 2012.
Diane A. Desierto, ICESCR Minimum Core Obligations and
Investment: Recasting the NonExpropriation Compensation Model
During Financial Crises, 44 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev., 2012.
Lawrence C. Foster, et al., The China Law Reader, Long River
Press, Dec. 2012.
Mark A. Levin, Circumstances That Would Prejudice Impartiality:
The Meaning of Fairness in Japanese Jurisprudence, 36 Hastings
Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., 2013.
Keiko Okuhara, et al. Issues and Trends of Collection Development
of East Asian Law in the United States, 105 Law Library Journal,
Aug. 2013.
Carole J. Petersen, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Hong
Kong: A Case for the Strategic Use of Human Rights Treaties and the
International Reporting Process, 14 AsianPac. L. & Pol'y J., 2013.
David Cohen
Professor of Law
David M. Forman
Director, Environmental Law
Program
Associate Faculty Specialist
PALS Student Activities
Every year our JD program attracts a remarkablytalented and diverse group of students, many ofwhom have lived and worked in Asia and havestrong research or practical interests in Asian andPacific studies. Many graduating students earnPALS certificates every year, and many morestudents enroll in PALS courses. This creates astrong community of shared interests, and ourstudents have an opportunity to work on projectswith their classmates in a host of PALS activities,including a law journal, moot court teams and otherstudent organizations.
PacificAsian Legal Studies Organization
Founded in 1997, the PacificAsian Legal StudiesOrganization (PALSO) is one of the school’s oldeststudentled organizations. PALSO is independentlygoverned by an allstudent board, elected annuallyby its members, with the advice of its cofacultyadvisors, and is selfsupporting.
PALSO is committed to promoting understandingof PacificAsian legal systems. PALSO sponsors aseries of lectures by speakers from the local bar andacademic community as well as from Pacific Rimcountries and the U.S. mainland. The organizationalso sponsors an overseas summer study programseminar, a career seminar for law school studentsand many social activities throughout the academicyear.
To learn more about PacificAsian Legal Studies at the William S. Richardson School of Law,please contact us at:
University of Hawai‘i at MānoaWilliam S. Richardson School of Law
PacificAsian Legal Studies2515 Dole Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
www.law.hawaii.edu/pals
(808) 9567966
AsianPacific Law and Policy Journal
The AsianPacific Law & Policy Journal(http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj) was founded in 1999as the first fully functional webbased Americanjournal dedicated to addressing legal issues in EastAsia, Polynesia and Australia. The Journal is editedand managed by students and provides a significantopportunity for them to improve their research,writing and editing skills while making acontribution to legal scholarship. Although arelatively new journal, the APLPJ has become apopular forum for discussion of important legalissues affecting the AsiaPacific region, attracting awide readership of overseas scholars, practitionersand students. Its inaugural issue, published inFebruary 2000, featured a symposium on legaleducation reform in Japan. Other issues haveincluded articles on such diverse topics as judicialindependence in Burma, the Korean legalprofession, the constitutionality of Samoan curfewsand the enforcement of arbitral awards in China.
Institute of AsianPacific Business Law
Established in 2006 at the University of Hawai‘i atMānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law, theInstitute of AsianPacific Business Law’s (IAPBL)mission is to be the premier academic center in therapidly growing field of Pacific and Asian businesslaw focusing on issues of regional importance, byengaging scholarship and scholarly exchanges andtraining amongst the academic, legal, and businesscommunities. To this end, the Institute focuses onareas of Pacific and Asian law that directly impactthe socioeconomic fabric of the region, includingcorporate and commercial law, businesstransactions, insolvency and secured transactions,securities law, real estate financing, intellectualproperty and labor law issues