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The explosion of environmental laws since the early 1970s has dramatically impacted business, government, and private individuals. The tentacles reach into almost all areas of law: from bankruptcy to tax, from land transactions to corporate structuring. This course introduces students to a smorgasbord of federal environmental laws, including endangered species, environmental impact statements, air and… Continue reading Environmental Law

This course is about getting paid. Lenders may reduce the risk of non-payment by obtaining an interest in the borrowers’ property as collateral to secure repayment. The course introduces students to the Uniform Commercial Code and examines the creation, perfection, priority, and enforcement of security interests in personal property under UCC Article 9.

This class starts from a central tenet of American Constitutionalism – a government by the people – asks under what conditions people become active, self-governing agents. This course considers the relationship between jurisprudence and action. It incorporates the key questions of legal theory – what is justice, and what the relationship between law and justice… Continue reading Organizing for Social Change: Anti-Subordination Theory & Practice

Formally Legal Practice II. Updated to Lawyering Fundamentals II in Fall 2015. 

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

Formally Legal Practice I. Updated to Lawyering Fundamentals I in Fall 2015.