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This course uses the current United States Supreme Court docket to engage in an in-depth study of vital contemporary and statutory rights claims in the area of civil rights and civil liberties law.

The course, which is often called “private international law,” involves examination and analysis of rules, approaches, and policies that determine which law, substantive and procedural, applies to transactions and events that touch more than one state, nation, or other jurisdiction. The central focus for study is “choice of law,” but other areas include recognition of… Continue reading Conflicts of Law

The Externship Program offers significant academic benefits not otherwise available in the prescribed curriculum. Students are provided field experience by being “placed” in an outside supportive environment to learn the panoply of lawyering skills. Mentors create situations specifically designed to maximize new learning, to develop new skills and to encourage creativity. Students discover their own… Continue reading Externship (Hawaiʻi)

Students perform research and write papers on selected legal topics or problems under the direction of a faculty member.

All students are required to take a LAW 530 seminar for which they must write a substantial paper of publishable quality. This seminar is taken during the spring semester of a student’s second year. Seminar offerings will be announced early in the fall for the spring semester. Seminar placement is by lottery. Prior topics have… Continue reading Second-Year Seminar

A study of the lawyer’s legal obligations and professional responsibilities to clients, the profession and society under the rules of conduct and laws governing lawyers. Personal choices and the impact of those choices, along with the structure of the legal profession, also are explored.

An examination of substantive rules and rationales of the criminal law. The course begins with a survey of criminal procedure from arrest through sentencing. Study of the criminal sentencing process raises important jurisprudential questions about the purposes and efficacy of criminal sanctions as a response to officially proscribed behavior. The heart of the criminal justice… Continue reading Criminal Law