  {"id":96653,"date":"2019-05-17T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=96653"},"modified":"2019-05-17T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:33:40","slug":"law-school-dean-search-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/17\/law-school-dean-search-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Search advisory committee formed to find next <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> law school dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_8120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8120\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-school-260x153.jpg\" alt=\"law school sign\" width=\"260\" height=\"153\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-school-260x153.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-school.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/provost\/\">Office of the Provost<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> has formally initiated the search for the next dean of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a>. A search advisory chair and committee, reporting to Provost <strong>Michael Bruno<\/strong>, have been named.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noreen Mokuau<\/strong>, dean of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sswork\/\">Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work<\/a>, will chair the search advisory committee.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will recommend finalists to Provost Bruno, who will recommend a selectee to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/president\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President<\/a> <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The search advisory committee will convene over the summer, with finalists invited to campus in the fall 2019 semester. The new dean may begin in spring or fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avi Soifer<\/strong>, dean of the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> law school, announced his retirement in March after 16 years in the leadership position.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/article\/search-advisory-committee-formed-william-s-richardson-school-law-dean-search\">full list of search advisory committee members<\/a>, see the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> law school website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noreen Mokuau, dean of the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, will chair the group of school and community representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[691,626,9,68],"class_list":["post-96653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-administration","tag-executive-search","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96653"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96829,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96653\/revisions\/96829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}