William S. Richardson School of Law Environmental Law Program

Day 3 of the Normandy Chair for Peace Summer School in Caen, France. The NCP Summer School is a conference featuring speakers from across the globe focused on applying peace and environmental law to sustain rights for future generations. ELP students Holly Crawford ‘24 and Evan Miyaki, Jr. ‘23, along with ELP Summer Fellow Lizbeth Luevano (Stanford University, ‘25), and Constancio Paranal III ‘22 are attending with ELP Co-Director David M. Forman, who spoke on day 2.

, , and presents Mālama Moananuiākea: A Lawyer’s Role in Addressing Climate Change within the Pacific and Asia featuring Professor Isabelle Giraudou, Mr. Clement Yow Mulalap, and Professor Malia Akutagawa . Join us on April 14, 5:00 pm HST to learn more about how you might play a role in climate change as an attorney.

Aloha ʻOhana ELP! Please join us for our second installment of our Climate Justice and Resiliency Series this Friday, March 4, from 12:00 - 1:00 PM HST via Zoom! For this event, ELP is partnering with the John A. Burns School of Medicine. This panel is entitled Climate Change and Public Health featuring Dr. Kealoha Fox, Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, and Dr. Neal Palafox. Friday’s panel will also be moderated by Jeffrey Hayashi and Anson Lee both students at JABSOM. You defiantly don’t want to miss this! Register at: https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoduGvrT8jHNEjSqbLwlnmbZ3Z2E2wsIbG or use the link in our bio!

Aloha ʻohana ELP! Please join us for the kickoff of our Climate Justice and Resiliency Series on February 18, 2022 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm HST via Zoom! This semester, ELP will be partnering with a variety of programs across the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. This panel our will be entitled Pacific Resiliency to Climate Change featuring Solomon Yeo, Bernard Kato Ewekia, Professor Payam Akhavan, and Naima Te Maile, 2L. You definitely don’t want to miss this! Register at: https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdeuhrz0uE9VLnoc1JHSPCqytGpA0G3gJ

ELP Professor Denise Antolini and Joe Udell ‘22 participated in the high-level judicial segment of the 2nd World Environmental Law Congress and the 3rd General Assembly of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month. The hybrid events brought together over one hundred judges and legal scholars from over forty countries.

ELP students Joseph Udell ‘22 and Naima Te Maile ‘23 have jetted off to Glasgow, Scotland for COP26 and are joined by ELP professors David M. Forman ‘93 and Denise Antolini.

ELP has partnered with the UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and will serve as an official observer delegation to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Read more below!

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/10/28/un-climate-change-convention/

Aloha ʻohana ELP! Please join us for Maoli Thursday on October 14, 2021 from 12-1 pm via Zoom! This semester, ELP and Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law are pairing up to bring you some truly amazing events! On October 14, our panel will be entitled Wai and Waiwai: Restorative Environmental Justice and the Future of Fresh Water. We will hear from Professor Kamanamaikalani Beamer, PhD and Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum. You definitely don’t want to miss this! Register at: https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIocOGoqTkuGNEM5Xy8Ox80HhlxcyjS5z_q

Use your screen time wisely! Scroll on over to the ELP website and enjoy our two most recent blog posts! Students enjoyed some virtual tea with professors David M. Forman Denise Antolini, Malia Akutagawa, and Richard Wallsgrove, while our ELP RA team caught up with the incoming director of Blue Planet Foundation, Melissa Miyashiro ‘10. http://blog.hawaii.edu/elp/

Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Todd Eddins ’91 was a featured speaker at the Sept. 7th forum event “Judges and the Environment: Protecting Nature in Court”, organized by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. Justice Eddins recognized ELP faculty Denise Antolini and David M. Forman ‘93 for their contributions to the Hawaii Environmental Court, and discussed the critical nature of good lawyering and advocacy.

Aloha kākou! Please join us for Maoli Thursday on September 9, 2021 from 12-1 pm via Zoom! This semester, ELP and Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law are pairing up to bring you some truly amazing events! Tomorrow we will be hearing from Professor Eric Yamamoto. The link to RSVP is in our bio!

Aloha!
On September 5th, Environmental Law Program director, Professor Forman moderated the Motion 003 information session.
Mahalo

Olivia Staubus ‘22, Joe Udell ‘22, and Diego Rivera ‘23 joined Kristen Lu and Jessica Lee for the Oceania Law Student Talk Story on day 3 of the IUCN World Conservation Congress. ICYMI, check out the link below! https://www.facebook.com/HawaiiConservation/videos/378913893881933/?hc_ref=ARQEG4id7_Y55u2bDFpAHh0ylVT4HzjR_azX9IjubWn-uXSXaxqSPWWRtXQ0MMrMu1M

On September 3rd, 2021, the first ever World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature took place. The virtual event was the first time an Indigenous Peoplesʻ summit was integrated into a World Conservation Congress. Thank you to Indigenous scholars such as Aroha Meade who held space for Indigenous conservationists.

Aroha Meade, a scholar and researcher from Aotearoa, shared the above photos in her slideshow of the CEESP Excursion Day for the World Conservation Congress 2016 which took place at the Hawaii Convention Center. “For Māori people we identify ourselves by acknowledging first our mountain, our river, and subsequently our tribe and sub-tribe. And only after these acknowledgments do we share our name.” Aroha Meade touched on the importance of interconnectedness of the environment and culture for Māori People, who like many other Indigenous People, fight tirelessly in their conservation efforts.

Aloha! The 2nd day of IUCN 2021 was in full swing! The Environmental Law Program (ELP) Hawai’i delegation, comprising of ELP professors and students, has been actively attending sessions in person and online. Pictured is our very own Professor David M. Forman speaking virtually from Marseille, France to 600 youth in China!

Aloha,
For this 1st day of the IUCN 2021, the Environmental Law Program Delegation of the William S. Richardson School of Law is honored to participate in person in Marseille and online from Hawaii!

This one is for the alumni, especially those who were at Richardson with our Professor Wallsgrove. Classes 2006-2010, we know you want to see Prof. Wallsgrove Tiktok. Link to donate is in our bio. Mahalo for your support!

2Ls, we are bringing you in! We just need a few more students to donate and release Prof. Chen’s Tiktok. Don’t forget to enter 2L in the “special instructions” box.

Unko Kimo Frankel's TikTok is LIVE! Enjoy! Next up is Professor Chen.

https://www.tiktok.com//video/6949769718169390342?lang=en&is_copy_url=0&is_from_webapp=v1&sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6922010582296135173

✅ Unko Kimo Frankel’s Challenge ✅$1,000 Mahalo for the support! You all blew this challenge out of the public shoreline. #ELP30th Environmental Law Pr () has created a short video on TikTok with music original sound. | ✅ Unko Kimo Frankel’s Challenge ✅$1,000 Mahalo for the support! You all blew this challenge out of the public shoreline.

Want to see Prof. Chen Tiktok? 1Ls, it’s GO TIME! We just need 30 donations from or on behalf of 1Ls. Don’t forget to type “1L” in the “special instructions” box when you give online.

Register by April 7th to win some free ELP SWAG! Link to register: https://tinyurl.com/elp30th

Here it is! ELP Director David M. Forman busts a move and kicks off our ELP 30th fundraiser. Enjoy!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMefAgPSd/

Environmental Law Pr on TikTok ELP Director David M. Forman is kicking off our fundraising campaign! Here is a quick tour of how to find the ELP Suite at Richardson.

Email [email protected] for the link to register. This event is open to the community, please share!

🎉ELP is kicking off our TikTok-a-Thon fundraiser! To see a TikTok from ELP Director David Forman, help us get 1,000 likes on this post!

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ELP will be hosting this week’s WSRSL Virtual Courtyard on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at 12pm! Join us to learn about upcoming summer opportunities in environmental law!

Happy Aloha Friday from ELP!

Enjoy this breezy weekend with an outdoor adventure! 🍃💙

Join us this Wednesday to celebrate a new book co-edited by Emilie Gaillard and David M. Forman, the Director of the Environmental Program and Faculty Specialist with the Ka Huli Au Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law at William S. Richardson School of Law. Please see the flyers for more information and Zoom link.

Happy Aloha Friday!

This cannonball tree (couroupita guianensis) produces spherical fruit that can reach diameters of up to 10 inches and brightly colored, aromatic flowers that grow directly from the tree’s trunk!

The world is full of incredible and beautiful natural wonders!

Have an amazing weekend! 🌊🦋🐋🌺🌈

Spring 2021 Events in Celebration of ELP’s 30th Anniversary❣️

Join us for Tuesday Programming tonight featuring ELP Tea Time with special guests from the Good Stories Movement!

Happy Aloha Friday!

Did you know just 3.5 percent of earth’s water is fresh with 68 percent of freshwater frozen in ice and glaciers, and 30 percent found in groundwater?

Join our trivia night to test your environmental knowledge and learn fun facts!

Enjoy the weekend! It’s going to be a gorgeous one!! 🤍🤍🤍

Join us for another fun night of environmental trivia in celebration of ELP’s 30th Anniversary! 🤩🌎🌺

VIRTUAL TRIVIA NIGHT for WSRSL Students and Alumni! Check your email for the link to register or email us at [email protected]

Happy Aloha Friday!

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~John Muir

Enjoy the weekend and Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻

Happy Aloha Friday!

“The sky is the ultimate art gallery above us.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a beautiful day!!

Happy Aloha Friday!!

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; v***r is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continent and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” ~John Muir

Have a beautiful day! ❤️

Happy Aloha Friday!!

While you enjoy this beautiful weekend, please remember to keep our beach clean and pick up your trash!

Happy Aloha Friday!

“Let the beauty of sunrise keep your heart warm.” ~Lailah Gifty Akita

Have a beautiful day! 💛

Richardson Students, keep an eye on your email to register for this fun event on Friday. Questions? Email us at [email protected]