The William S. Richardson School of Law’s Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law was established in 2005. Ka Huli Ao focuses on education, research, community outreach, and the preservation of invaluable historical, legal, and traditional and customary materials. Ka Huli Ao also offers new courses and supports Native Hawaiian law students as they pursue legal careers and leadership roles.
Saturday June 19, 2010 9:00 am through 5:00 pm William S. Richardson School of Law Classroom 2
We are creating a digital link to the records of the Kingdom of Hawai`i and need your support. Ka Huli Ao Digital Archives have been created to make our history available to the community. We need help preparing documents for upload to our databases. Volunteers at our party will be provided with coffee, pastries, lunch and files to work on. Bring your laptop and we will provide the rest.
RSVP by June 16 so that we can provide for each of our volunteers. Contact Keith Johnston at keithjoh@hawaii.edu or call 956-4092.
Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law discusses S. 1011, the current U.S. Senate version of the Akaka Bill in a series of videos. Three short video clips below explore the following: - Background of bill - Initial Membership (qualified Native Hawaiian constituent) - Inherent authority - Negotiations, claims, sovereign immunity
The Senate version of the Akaka Bill is noticeably different from the U.S. House version. Do you know what the differences are? You can watch the videos below and we encourage you to CLICK HERE to read a printer-friendly summary of the new changes to the Akaka Bill.
Background of bill
Initial Membership
Inherent authority and negotiations, claims, sovereign immunity
Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law presents: Maoli Thursday.
This month, our panel discussion is called, The "Ceded" Lands Dispute: What does blood quantum have to do with it?
Please see image above.
Seating is limited. RSVP by 9/27/09 at nhlawctr@hawaii.edu
If youʻre on MaoliWorld.com you can also RSVP by CLICKING HERE and select "Will attend". If youʻre on Facebook, after logging on, you can RSVP by CLICKING HERE and select "Attending."
What: Maoli Thursday, a monthly series of panel discussions relevant to the Hawaiian community. This monthʻs focus is the so-called "ceded" lands dispute and blood quantum.
Where: William S. Richardson School of Law 2515 Dole Street, Classroom 1
When: Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 12:45.
Who: Free and open to the public while the panelists include Dr. Jon Osorio and attorneys Naiwi Wurdeman and Yuklin Aluli.
This Saturday, Ka Huli Ao will begin its Law School Admission Test preparation program. Previously, the program was completed operated by the law student organization, ʻAhahui o Hawaiʻi with support from the William S. Richardson School of Law and Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. We are confident that Ka Huli Ao will build upon the success of ʻAhahui o Hawaiʻi.
Initially, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs funded the program through grants. Now, Ka Huli Ao funds the program through its funding. The adoption of this program by Ka Huli Ao will help to keep the program sustainable and permanent as student leaders enroll and graduate from the law school.
Derek Kauanoe, a Ka Huli Ao Post-JD fellow who oversees the program, and Liam Skilling who conducts the classes are both excited for the incoming class. Previously, Liam and Derek worked on this program when it was managed by ʻAhahui o Hawaiʻi.
We have a good number of aspiring advocates for the Native Hawaiian community. Program participants have interests in various issues that include:
foster care,
the environment,
culture,
language,
and traditional & customary rights.
Derek is excited to know that many of these program participants not only have an interest in these issues but have also been demonstrably active in the community.
We had an overwhelming response to our program this year. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate every applicant. We are exploring possibilities to offer another class this fall to prepare aspiring law school applicants for the December 2009 LSAT. Anyone interested should CLICK HERE and subscribe or join the e-mail. We use that e-mail list to provide program updates.
We will definitely keep you posted on updates regarding this group.
Maxine Burkett is an Associate Professor of Law at the Law School and serves as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP). Professor Burkett attended Williams College and Exeter College, Oxford University, and received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Burkett’s courses include Torts, Climate Change Law and Policy, Environmental Law, Race and American Law, and International Development. She has written in the area of Race, Reparations, and Environmental Justice. Currently, her work focuses on “Climate Justice,” writing on the disparate impact of climate change on poor and of-color communities and the United States’ ethical and legal obligation to these communities nationally and internationally. She has presented her research on Climate Justice throughout the United States, West Africa, and the Caribbean. As the Director of ICAP, she leads projects to address climate change law, policy, and planning for island communities in Hawai‘i, the Pacific region, and beyond.
Law students serve as mentors to 6th, 7th and 8th graders from Waimānalo. Once a month, law students ("Bigs") meet with the Waimānalo keiki ("Littles") for some fun activities.
Law student mentors will meet with their young mentees in the spring of 2009 for a few hours each month. The program expects to provide a variety of activities that will foster a relationship between individual law students and elementary-intermediate school students.
Participating law students are: Aeri Yum, Amy Brinker, Barron Oda, Ha‗aheo Kaho‘ohalahala, Jennifer Humphries, Jennifer Lee, Jessica Domingo, Jessica Taba, Joni Domingues, Lianne Aoki, Mariah Carmichael, Page Kraker, Sari Sanchez, Sherilyn Tavares, and Stephen Wood.
We expect that both our Bigs and Littles will continue having fun as we move forward with this program. Mahalo to Big Brothers and Big Sisters for providing us with the photographs.
At issue in State v. OHA is whether the State can transfer "ceded" lands before Native Hawaiians' "unrelinquished claims" to those lands are resolved. how did the U.S. Supreme Court Justices respond to this issue at the oral argument on February 25? Come and hear first-hand observations straight from Washington!
Below is the video recording from our live-streaming event earlier today. The discussion was titled, RECONSTRUCTING RELATIONSHIPS: Healing Historic Injustices Against the Ainu People of Japan. The first few minutes did not record, but most of the discussion was recorded. Enjoy.
The featured panelists in today's event were: - Prof. Mark Levin - Prof. Eric Yamamoto - Ashley Obrey (3rd year law student).
The panel was moderated by Prof. Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie; Director of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law.
Keith Johnston, a 2008 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law is one of the Post-Juris Doctor Fellows at Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. Keith's work as a Fellow is to develop the Center's digital archive.
In our November 7, 2008, blog entry, we briefly mentioned our efforts to make Hawaiian Kingdom era archived documents more accessible. After experiencing a brief delay, I'm happy to announce that Ka Huli Ao is making progress in regards to this particular project.
Two first-year law students, Troy Andrade and Maxwell Kaanohi Kopper have begun the transcription process starting with handwritten Hawaiian Kingdom documents from the year 1841. We expect our transcription efforts to be a long and enduring process that shows great promise for making rare documents more easily accessible. Ka Huli Ao expects to increase the number of law students working on this project over the next semester and following semesters. Other students have previously expressed enthusiasm towards the idea of having access to these old documents and contributing to the effort of making them more accessible.
The transcription process is no easy task. As can be expected, there are no Hawaiian diacritical marks. In addition, transcribing copies of the original documents can be challenging at times, but definitely not impossible. We believe that by the end of this calendar year, which is soon, we will have a number of archived documents transcribed, because of the work of Troy, Maxwell, and Keith. At this time, we do not know exactly when these documents will be availble for viewing. But we'll be sure to keep people updated through this blog.
If this is your first time visiting our blog, and want to be kept updated, please be sure to subscribe to our blog by going to the area right above our organization logo on the upper-right side of this screen. By subscribing to our blog, we can be sure to keep you updated on the latest information regarding our archive transcription efforts and other information on Ka Huli Ao.
Sorry for missing a posting yesterday Thursday. But we shared some great news on the Wednesday posting. Thursday was a very VERY busy day especially coming after Wednesday.
On Wednesday, November 19, 2008, Community Outreach Fellow, Derek Kauanoe was at Kailua High School for its Career Day Fair held in Kailua High School's gymnasium. At a later date, but not too far into the future, we'll be posting some video footage of the outreach effort. Hopefully within the next couple of days and with a thorough description of the day's events.
Third year law student, Evan Silberstein, a student at the William S. Richardson School of Law had his commentary printed in today's Honolulu Advertiser.
In his commentary, Evan mentions this blog site as the source of video footage of a "post-election discussion." Because Mr. Silberstein cited to this blog site for the video footage, I'll make it easier for people to find that footage by embedding it below.
Ken Conklin provides a critique of Evan's commentary. To read it, you'll need to scroll down past the commentary.
According to a Pacific Business News article, the law firm of Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher will donate $100,000 to the William S. Richardson School of Law for scholarships and the school's moot court program. The article describes the moot court program as nationally-recognized. Mahalo to the law firm for its generosity.
The William S. Richardson School of Law has a variety of moot court teams. Such teams include: Client Counseling team, Criminal Law Moot Court Team, Environmental Law Moot Court Team, Hispanic Moot Court Team, Intellectual Moot Court Team, International Environmental Law Moot Court Team, Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, and the Native American Moot Court Team. Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law is closely affiliated with the Native American Moot Court Team on campus. Because of this affiliation, we would like to take the time to describe the Native American Moot Court Team. The Native American Moot Court Team has a consistent record of success in its participation at the National Native American Law Students Association's annual moot court competition. In 16 years of the competition's existence, the William S. Richardson School of Law captured First Place in the Best Overall/Best Advocates category four times. That's a total of 1/4 of the First Place Award in that category. Additionally, the team has won awards in the other two categories, Best Brief and Best Oralist for a total of 19 awards.
Here is a short video of the team with highlights from the 2007-08 year and competition.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs issued a News Release, that, in part provides, "By agreement, OHA representatives, together with a neutral archaeologist and accompanied by Army representatives, will survey certain Army training areas. Through these and past surveys, OHA and Army representatives aim to ensure the appropriate identification and treatment of cultural and historic resources located in Lihu‘e, the traditional name for the Schofield Barracks region, and other parts of Hawai‘i."
The Honolulu Advertiser also has an article on the topic. The article identifies OHA's concern in noting,
"On July 22, 2006, an unexploded-ordnance removal crew bulldozed across a buffer protecting Hale'au'au heiau at Schofield, according to cultural monitors hired by the Army.
OHA also said there were other incidents involving displacement and damage of petroglyphs, the filling of a streambed known to contain Native Hawaiian sites and the construction of a road over burial grounds."
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