{"id":93800,"date":"2019-04-01T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=93800"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:16:14","slug":"law-students-incoming-fall-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/01\/law-students-incoming-fall-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming UH<\/abbr> law students immersed in legal world"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Evening Part-Time Program Director Liam Skilling greets an incoming fall 2019 student.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A powerful Hawaiian chant, an evocative hula and the chance to sit in on a criminal law<\/a> class were featured as the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> welcomed 38 members of the incoming fall 2019 class during Admitted Students Day.<\/p>\n

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Current law students lead a tour at the William S. Richardson School of Law.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dean Avi Soifer<\/strong> greeted students with a warm welcome to a school lauded for its diversity and humanity. Incoming Student Bar Association<\/a> President Ian F. Tapu<\/strong> shared his personal story of being the first in his family to finish college and to attend law school. And Assistant Professor Troy J.H. Andrade<\/strong> offered a compelling overview of the law school’s origins and its 45-year history.<\/p>\n

Said Andrade, “To understand the essence of our law school, it’s important to know and appreciate the life and legacy of CJ (William) Richardson<\/strong>. His life provides such an apt example of the way in which, despite struggles, change in the law—real change—is possible, and can make Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> a better place.”<\/p>\n

The welcome chant by Professor Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie<\/strong> and hula by current law student Tarita Keohokalole-Look<\/strong> launched a full day of introductions to the world of legal studies, while Kenneth Lawson<\/strong>’s class in criminal law about self-defense and battered women’s syndrome provided a touch of gritty reality.<\/p>\n

The gathering drew 33 incoming full-time JD<\/abbr> program<\/a> students, and five Evening Part-Time Program<\/a> students. Among them are marine scientists, biologists, teachers, military personnel, bankers, paralegals, engineers, philosophers, medical personnel and more, coming from as far away as Guam, Nevada, Texas and Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

See the full story on the law school’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n

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