{"id":43357,"date":"2016-02-29T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=43357"},"modified":"2020-03-12T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T00:27:37","slug":"high-school-students-discover-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/29\/high-school-students-discover-law\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students discover law"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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High school students participating in the Discover Law program at the William S. Richardson School of Law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fifty-two local high school students took part in a special Discover Law program at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> on Friday, learning about the possibility of careers in law and the broad scope of justice in their own community.<\/p>\n

Students from Waipahu and Roosevelt High Schools, along with teachers and counselors, spent the morning at the William S. Richardson School of Law learning about trial procedures; doing legal exercises, including one involving the delicate art of negotiation; and hearing from law students.<\/p>\n

For Brent Micua, a 16-year-old junior from Waipahu High, which has a law and justice academy, it was a chance “to learn about the law and justice” from people who are teaching and practicing it every day.<\/p>\n

“I watch a lot of cop shows like Criminal Minds<\/em> and I think it’s pretty cool,” he said. He also thinks that someday—after he graduates\u00a0and finishes college—he just might consider law school.<\/p>\n

Those are the kinds of ideas Roosevelt teacher Ryan Darnell hopes are being fostered with this UH<\/abbr> partnership. “By giving them a taste of law school it could help them decide what their major might be,” he said.<\/p>\n

Learning about law first hand<\/h2>\n

James Diehl<\/strong>, a third-year law student graduating this coming May, is the president of SPOCE<\/abbr>, Students for Public Outreach and Civic Education<\/a>, an organization of Richardson law students that planned the program. Diehl said that simply having the opportunity to visit the UH<\/abbr> law school and to hear from professors is a unique chance to explore potential careers as well as to be introduced to the only law school in the Pacific.<\/p>\n

“For a lot of students this is the only way they’re going to be exposed to law at an early age,” said Diehl. “For a lot of students it’s an eye-opening experience.”<\/p>\n

It’s also an experience that many of the UH<\/abbr> law students wished they had had.<\/p>\n

“I grew up in the public school system and I never learned even the most basic things about law that a citizen should understand,” said Lucy Brown<\/strong>. “From a civics standpoint, it should be taught and a face put to it. These students are intrigued, they’re figuring it out and problem-solving and it’s exciting to see them engaged and interested. That’s what we’re doing every day in law school.”<\/p>\n

“No students at any other law school are as involved in the community as are Richardson students,” said law school dean Avi Soifer<\/strong>. “This program is just one good example of their willingness to commit time and effort to others, no matter how busy they are.”<\/p>\n

—By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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