All Course Descriptions
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
This course covers the legal regime applicable to federal, state and local agency decision-making and the role of the courts in reviewing agency decisions through study of the federal and Hawai‘i Administrative Procedure Acts and the case law arising under them.
An introduction to United States maritime law and admiralty jurisdiction emphasizing development of rules of maritime law and rights of seamen and maritime workers. Considers maritime liens, charter parties, salvage, collision, general average and limitation of liability, and developments relating to protection of the marine environment.
The course addresses various aspects of complex litigation and recent criticism about the civil litigation system itself. The course is theoretical in emphasis and is developed from two directions: (1) through a study of jurisprudential material concerning adversarial dispute resolution, the substance/procedure dichotomy and value-identification; and (2) through in-depth analysis of procedural aspects of complex cases (with a special focus on new procedural rules aimed at reducing waste and delay).
Prerequisites/Recommended
Students in the Advanced Elder Law Clinic have already taken the Elder Law Clinic course. The overall objective of the Advanced Elder Law Clinic Course is to continue to expose students to practice areas of law that affect older persons and to ethical and other practical issues involved in providing legal services to older persons and their caregivers. In the Advanced Elder Law Clinic, special consideration will be given to the legal rights of veterans and their caregivers.
Prerequisites/Recommended
Designed to help students enhance their legal writing and analysis skills as law students, bar examinees, and legal professionals. LAW majors only
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
The Advanced Legal Research course provides depth and advanced research techniques in specific practice areas such as International Law and Hawaii Law. Each course is taught by a different instructor and focuses on a different topic.
In this course, we review basic practices and focus on critical analysis of the law and how it changes the courses of your research. These courese employ a vareity of assessment methods. Assessment methods will depend on the topic speciality and the instructors' preferences.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise. (B) topic 1; (C) topic 2; (D) topic 3; (E) topic 4; (F) topic 5; (G) topic 6; (H) topic 7; (I) topic 8; (J) topic 9; (K) topic 10; (M) topic 11; (N) topic 12; (O) topic 13; (P) topic 14; (Q) topic 15.
Introduction to ERISA Law
The protections afforded by ERISA, or the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, to participants and beneficiaries of employer-sponsored pension and health and welfare plans affect most working individuals. This is largely due to ERISA's nondiscrimination requirements and corresponding Internal Revenue Code provisions. This course will provide an introductory framework for understanding the origins, purposes, and operation of ERISA.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
The first half of this course engages students in an advanced examination of tort law and policy. The second half of the course provides an introduction to insurance law and policy. Tort law subjects typically include statutes of limitation, business torts, medical malpractice, products liability, apportionment and contribution, and defamation, among others. Insurance law introduces students to basic principles of insurance including insurable interest, moral hazard, indemnity, and adverse selection. Substantive topics concern common litigation issues such as insurer duties to insureds and others in first and third party insurance; insurer bad faith claims; and the professional responsibilities of attorneys in the lawyer, insured, insurer triad. This course is of considerable importance to students interested in civil litigation and personal injury law.
Prerequisites/Recommended
Introduces conceptual and historical foundations of systems of public and private ordering in the United States and its territories and explores the roles of lawyers and the legal system in social and political change. Supports participants as they adjust to the law school experience and seeks to sustain their connections with the communities they aim to serve and the aspirations that motivated them to study law.
Introduces conceptual and historical foundations of systems of public and private ordering in the U.S. and its territories. Subjects include federalism, constitutional democracy, separation of powers, and the common law. Repeatable one time. CR/NC only.
This course will examine international and comparative labor law issues facing the East Asian countries of China, Japan, and Korea, as well as the practical issues confronting American lawyers who will use labor in those countries as they do business in and with them. The course covers the effects of globalization on FDI, trade, migrant workers, and the increasingly global practice of lawyers. It puts this in the context of international players (MNCs like Wal-Mart, ILO, and ITUC) and discusses the application and effects of international labor standards, domestic, and foreign labor laws within domestic legal systems. It introduces comparative law systems and biases. The course then examines the legal systems of China, Japan, and Korea through the perspective of labor law regulation. This is followed by comparisons of these three on selected topics such as gender discrimination, ADR, role of trade unions, etc.
Comparison of corporate insolvency law of selected Asian and Pacific island countries, with a focus on recently enacted laws and pending proposals that have followed the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Law students only. Recommended: LAW 515, LAW 554, LAW 562. (Alt. years)
Students selected for the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal editorial board have writing, researching, editorial and production responsibility for publication of the journal. Repeatable four times. CR/NC only.
Faculty members or visiting scholars present selected topics focusing upon subject areas in their area of specialty or expertise.
An honors program for students who prepare for and compete in national advocacy. Travel/Registration Fees required. (B) Black Law Students Association; (C) Client Counseling; (D) Hispanic Bar Association; (E) Environmental Law; (H) Native American; (J) Jessup International; (K) International Environmental Law; (M) Intellectual Property; (N) Labor; (O) Other. Repeatable one time. CR/NC only. Pre: selection by competition.
After a brief survey of agency, partnerships, and other forms of business organization, the course will cover the fundamentals of corporations, and securities regulation, including disregarding the corporate entity, management and control of closely held corporations, merger, liability under the federal securities laws, takeovers, public registration, exemptions, and derivative suits.
This course introduces you to the law governing the relations between financially distressed business debtors (those who owe) and their creditors (those to whom obligations are owed). We will consider why businesses encounter financial troubles, and what remedies businesses may pursue outside of bankruptcy court to solve their troubles. We will then focus on business reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Code. We will consider, throughout the course, how creditors, debtors and their attorneys take the effects of bankruptcy law into account in (i) counseling clients, (ii) negotiating, documenting and performing contracts, (iii) reducing risk, and (iv) resolving disputes with and without litigation. Recommended: Secured Transactions (LAW 554).
Prerequisites/Recommended
This class focuses on the issues pertaining to at-risk children and their families. The course is intended to be multidisciplinary in scope, applying and, ideally, blending the analytical lenses of the disciplines of law, social work, nursing, and education. The class will be clinical in approach, with students working to make a positive impact on the lives of youth through on-site experiences at selected community programs. Students will collaborate in multidisciplinary teams (class enrollment permitting) on projects that directly benefit young people at their community placement sites. Students will leave the course with improved practice skills, a deeper understanding of interdisciplinary interaction, and valuable connections to other child welfare professionals.
This course is offered CR/NCR for law students, but for a grade for the non-law students. Non-law students should contact Jane Dickson Iijima for registration instructions.
Exploration of fundamental concepts of law relating to children, ethical issues, and the role of lawyers in assisting children, and how the child's rights and obligations are balanced with those of parents and state. (Once a year)
Introduction to business and commercial law in the People's Republic of China. After a brief overview of China's political and legal systems, the course will examine basic areas of domestic business legislation, including torts, property, and contract law, the regulation of private business, the reform of state enterprises, the development of company and securities laws, and the regulation of land-use and other property rights. More specialized topics, such as arbitration and dispute resolution, the Chinese approach to intellectual property issues, or the use of joint ventures and other foreign investment vehicles, may also be included.
A study of pre-trial, trial, and appellate procedures in federal and Hawai‘i courts. Subjects considered include jurisdiction and the relationship between such courts, the relationship between procedural and substantive law, pleading and joinder, discovery, jury trial and the role of the judge, verdicts and motions after verdict, judgments and their enforcement, and appellate review.
Continuation of 516. Pre: 516.
Prerequisites/Recommended
This course focuses on the civil rights of Americans and introduces alternative remedies and procedures for securing these rights. Statutory law, including 42 USC 1983, the Equal Pay Act, and various statutes prohibiting discrimination, are emphasized as well as Bivens-type actions, common law causes of action in tort, enforcement by the Justice Department and other government agencies, and criminal prosecution of civil rights violators. The course compares these litigation alternatives, noting their strengths and limitations, and studies the experiences of the lawyers who have used them.
An honors program for students who prepare for and compete in national advocacy. Travel/Registration Fees required. (B) Black Law Students Association; (C) Client Counseling; (D) Hispanic Bar Association; (E) Environmental Law; (H) Native American; (J) Jessup International; (K) International Environmental Law; (M) Intellectual Property; (N) Labor; (O) Other. Repeatable one time. CR/NC only. Pre: selection by competition.
Climate change is a core challenge that will influence law and policy well into the future. Will study climate change science, litigation, law and policy at state, national, and international levels. (Once a year)