New Post-JD Fellowships

Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law is proud to announce its award of four new Post-J.D. Research Fellowships to support research, scholarship, teaching and/or other research-related projects in Native Hawaiian law. With a recent gift of $750,000 spread over the next three years from Kamehameha Schools, four recent law graduates will undertake advanced research to deepen knowledge and understanding of the legal issues facing the Hawaiian community.

Inaugural Research Fellows are Li‘ulā Nakama, 2009 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law; Nāpali Souza, 2009 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law; Breann Swann, 2004 graduate of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, who also is a 2009 LL.M. candidate in Tribal Policy, Law and Government from The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; and Titiimaea Ta‘ase, 2008 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law.

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3rd year law students featured today.

Nāpali Souza is from Kailua, O‘ahu and currently lives in Palolo. In the video clip below, Nāpali briefly talks about empowering the Native Hawaiian community through legal education. Find out what he says by watching the video.



As part of our community outreach, for the next several weeks, we are providing a series of video clips of law students (and a few lawyers) on our blog. These law students and lawyers share their experience either in law school or in the legal profession.

We invite you to watch these brief video clips and hear what these inspirational people have to say.