January Term (J-Term) | William S. Richardson School of Law

January Term (J-Term)

Our January Term (J-Term) Program, established in 2005, gives law students the bonus of specialized mini-courses taught by some of the world's leading scholars and professors and judges.

Mr. Frank Boas, a generous supporter of the Law School, helped to start the Program and the Law School continues to sponsor a Visiting Harvard professor each J-Term in Frank's memory. The Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor Fund supports many of our other J-Term professors.

2023 l Course Schedule.pdf l Course Descriptions l Flyer.

Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Legal Analyst on MSNBC.   
LAW 546E Access to Justice: Race, Crime, and The Law



I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Deputy Dean at Harvard Law School, Faculty Director for Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics.   
LAW 546H Reproductive Technologies and Genetics: Legal and Ethical Issues


 

Vincent Kimura, Lead Founder and President of Smart Yields, Board Member of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, the Hawaii Farmers Union United, and Kokua Market Cooperative.
LAW 546J The Equitable, Fullfilling Workplace


 

Judge Wes Porter, United States Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court (Hawaiʻi), Professor in Law at William Richardson School of Law
LAW 546D: Hawaiʻi Federal Trial Academy

 



 

Iyiola Solanke, Jacques Delors Profesor of European Union Law at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Somerville College
LAW 546F  Race, Law, and Social Justice in Europe

 

 

 

2022 l Course Schedule.pdf l Course Descriptions l Flyer

2021 | Course Schedule.pdf  | CLE Credit Information and Registration (updated 1/12/2021)

2020 | Course Schedule.pdf  | Course Descriptions.pdf (Updated 12/31/2019)  | CLE Credit Information.pdf | Press Release

  • Rosalie Silberman Abella, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
    LAW546E Protecting Rights in a Polarized World: The Canadian Experience
  • Andrew Manuel Crespo, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Frank Boas Visiting Harvard Professor
    LAW546C Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence of the Roberts Court
  • Renee M. Jones, Associate Dean Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
    LAW546C Start-Up Company Governance: Taming Unicorns
  • Stephen Pevar, Senior Staff Counsel, ACLU Racial Justice Program; Adjunct Professor of American Indian Law, Yale Law School
    LAW546J Rights of American Indian Tribes in the Era of Trump
  • Stephen Wizner, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale Law School
    LAW546-I The Ethical Lawyer in the Trump Era: Partisan Advocate, Moral Actor, Trustee of Justice?

2019 | Course Schedule and Faculty Profiles | Press Release

2018 | Course Schedule and Faculty Profiles | 

2017 | Course Schedule and Faculty Profiles | 

2016 | Course Descriptions and Faculty Profiles | Schedule | CLE Flyer

2015 | Course Descriptions and Faculty Profiles | Schedule

2014 | Course Descriptions and Faculty Profiles

  • Hon. Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawai'i, Construing the Hawai'i Constitution, LAW 546J

  • *Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Race and the Law in the Civil Rights Movement, LAW 546E
    *Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor
  • Michelle McKinley, Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law, Refugee and Asylum Law, LAW 546F
  • Richard H. Pildes, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, The Law of Democracy, LAW 546C
  • Steve Roady, Staff Attorney, Earthjustice, Washington D.C., Strategic Ocean Litigation, LAW 546G

2013 | Course Descriptions and Schedule

  • The Honorable Mark W. Bennett, District Judge, Northern District of Iowa, The War on Drugs and Federal Sentencing: A View from the Inside, LAW 546I
  • Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law,
    Human Rights and Criminal Justice in China, LAW 546J
  • Thomas A. Green, John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Michigan Law School, Criminal Responsibility in American History, LAW 546C
  • Seok-Woo Lee, Professor, INHA University Law School, Korea, Korea and International Law: Colonialism, War, and the Rise of a Mid-Power State, LAW 546E
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School; Professor of History and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Law & Politics in the Early American Republic, LAW 546G
  • Marjorie M. Shultz, Professor of Law (Emerita), UC Berkley School of Law, Law and Bio-Medical Ethics, LAW 546H

2012 | Course and Faculty Descriptions

  • The Honorable Edward M. Chen, District Judge, Northern District of California, Public Law: The Confirmation of Federal Judges: Law and Policy, Law 546G
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Christine Desan, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Legal Theory: Money & the U.S. Constitution, LAW 546H
  • Lawrence M. Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Rule of Law: Gone But Not Forgotten: Topics in American Legal History, Law 546C
  • Elizabeth Schneider, Rose L. Hoffer Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Practice: Women and the Law Stories, LAW 546I
  • Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law, Diversity: Same Sex Marriage on Trial, LAW 546E
     

2011 | Schedule | Course Descriptions |Textbooks & Readings | Course Announcements

  • Gregory Alexander, A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School, Comparative Constitutional Property Law, LAW 546H

  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Richard Fallon, Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School, The Supreme Court in US Constitutional and Political History, LAW 546C

  • T. Derrick Heggans, Managing Director, Wharton Sports Business Initiative, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Sports and the Law, LAW 546D

  • Jae Hyup Lee, Professor, Seoul National University, Asian Comparative Environmental Law, LAW 546G

  • Laurie L. Levensen, Professor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow and David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy, Loyola Law School | Los Angeles, High-Profile Trials, Gangs, Juvenile Justice, White-Collar Crime and the Death Penalty, LAW 546I

  • Ray Madoff, Professor, Boston College, Immortality and the Law, LAW 546J

2010 | SCHEDULE | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS |

Textbooks & Readings

  • Tayyab Mahmud, Professor of Law; Director, Center for Global Justice, Seattle University School of Law, Seminar in Comparative Constitutional Law: Coup d’Etat & Common Law
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law; Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School, President Obama’s Impact on America and Beyond: How Will He Help Shape The Legal Landscape?
  • Harry N. Scheiber, Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History; Director, Institute for Legal Research; Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law; Co-director, Law of the Sea Institute, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Emergency Powers and Civil Liberties in American Constitutional History
  • Frank K. Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law, Property Rights in Economic and Social Development
  • Gordon Walker, Professor; Chair of Commercial Law, School of Law, La Trobe University, Public Listing Down Under – Australia and New Zealand Company and Securities Law

2009 | Brochure

  • David Caron, Professor, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Challenges & Issues in Private Int’l Dispute Resolution
  • Michael Greco, Esq., Partner, K&L Gates LLP, Attorney-Client Privilege: Endangered Species?
  • Donald Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University, Seminar in Comparative Constitutional Design
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley, University Professor, Harvard Law School, Bill of Rights & Private Comparative Perspective

2008 | Brochure

  • Christine Zuni Cruz, Editor-in-Chief, Tribal Law Journal and Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law
  • The Honorable Nancy Gertner, U. S. District Court, Massachusetts, Jury System
  • Leonard Kaplan, Mortimer M. Jackson Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin School of Law, Law Culture & Politics
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Carol Steiker, Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Death Penalty
  • Gordon Walker, Professor, School of Law, La Trobe University, Comparative Corporate Law

2007 | Press Release

  • Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, The Internet & Info Society
  • Margaret Chon, Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Seattle University School of Law, Globalization & Intellectual Property
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, The Racial Politics of Loyalty & Disloyalty
  • The Honorable Jon Newman, Senior Judge, US Ct of Appeals 2nd Circuit, Concept of Reasonableness
  • Rebecca Tsosi, Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Indigenous Rights & Federalism

 2006

  • Chongko Choi, Professor, Seoul National University, Comparative Jurisprudence
  • Daniel Kanstroom, Professor, Boston College, Social & Legal History of Deportation in the US
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Joseph Singer, Harvard Law School, The Ownership Society
  • Stephanie Wildman, Professor, Santa Clara University, Law & Social Justice
  • Patricia Zell, Esq., Building a Nation: The Exercise of Native Sovereignty

 2005 | In the Media

  • William B. Gould, IV, Charles A. Beardsley Emeritus Professor, Stanford Law School, Sports Law and Labor Law
  • Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law; Law Fund Research Scholar, Boston College Law School, New Ideas in Corporate Law
  • Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Morton Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School, The Warren Court
     

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