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This seminar will concisely examine three global areas of public regulation over cross-border transactions and firm operations – world trade law, international foreign investment law, and international financial law – which increasingly comprise the new areas of domestic and transnational legal practice.  Students will gain functional knowledge of: 1) the architecture of the trade law… Continue reading International Economic Law and Business

Law and Literature both inhabit the realm of interpretation, rhetoric, form, ethics and epistemology. They mediate our relationship to society and share how we imagine the world, each other and ourselves. In this course, we will read and analyze literary texts to explore issues that have been central to the scholarship and teaching of Critical… Continue reading Lit Law Race & Culture

The SJD seminar is designed to provide SJD students with an overview of legal analysis in a series of related fields. Through presentations by the instructor and by other law faculty members in different fields, the students will be introduced to different research approaches and areas of legal analysis. Appropriate introductions will be given to… Continue reading SJD Legal Scholarship

The course is designed to facilitate the research and writing of SJD dissertation. During the first weeks of the course, the student shall submit his or her plans of dissertation research and writing for the semester. The dissertation adviser will review it and approve it with comments. In the middle of the semester, the students… Continue reading SJD Dissertation

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… Continue reading Advanced Legal Research: Topic 10

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… Continue reading Advanced Legal Research: Topic 9

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… Continue reading Advanced Legal Research: Topic 8