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The purpose of the course is to survey and analyze the organization, powers, and duties of state and local governments, their interaction, and how they fit within the increasingly pervasive federal system. We will particularly emphasize finances, home rule, state and local antitrust liability, development agreements, impact fees, tax increment and other debt financing (including… Continue reading State & Local Government Law

This course focuses on specific topic areas that will vary from year to year, depending upon current developments and issues in environmental law in Hawai`i, nationwide, and internationally, as well as the expertise of visiting faculty. Topics in the past have included Hawai`i environmental law, environmental law and the military, wildlife law, and toxic waste… Continue reading Topics in Environmental Law

This course revolves around the gratuitous transfer of wealth, beginning with underlying philosophical tensions and broad societal concerns, and then focusing on “who gets it when you go,” including the legal requirements for wills, revocable trusts and other will substitutes, and what happens in the absence of such a document.  Also considered are statutory protections… Continue reading Trusts & Estates

An examination of the evolving process of formulating rules to govern the transnational problems requiring global solutions. After looking at the United Nations and other international and regional organizations, students focus on: (a) the Law of the Sea negotiations, (b) the laws of war, (c) human rights, and (d) economic problems. Students examine both the… Continue reading International Law

Examination of legal issues that affect ocean resources. This course focuses on governance of living and non-living resources, environmental protection, and boundary delimitation.

This course is intended to provide students with an overview of the historical foundations of Chinese law as well as an introduction to the present legal system in the People’s Republic of China. The first part of the course will survey classical legal theory, the administration of justice during the Qing dynasty and late Qing-Republican… Continue reading Law & Society in China

This is a survey course in public control of private use of land: how do state, local, and federal agencies regulate the land development process? Special emphasis is on constitutional issues (exclusionary zoning, regulations and exactions that may be “takings” of property under the federal Constitution), growth management, and innovative techniques such as impact fees,… Continue reading Land Use Management and Control

This course introduces you to the law governing the relations between debtors (those who owe) and creditors (those to whom obligations are owed). We will begin by reviewing non-judicial debt collection practices and limitations and judicial state law debt collection (this review will build upon concepts introduced in Secured Transactions). We will then study the… Continue reading Debtors’ and Creditors’ Rights