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January Term (J-Term) Program
Established in 2005, our January Term (J-Term) Program gives law students the bonus of specialized mini-courses taught by some of the world’s leading scholars, professors, and judges.
Mr. Frank Boas, a generous supporter of the Law School, helped start the Program and the Law School continues to sponsor a Visiting Harvard professor each J-Term in Frank’s memory.
Current J-Term FACULTY & Courses (2026)
From January 12-16, the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa presents seven classes led by preeminent, nationally-recognized legal experts who will explore fundamental, justice focused topics below.
Martha Minow (Frank Boas Visiting Harvard Professor)
Martha Minow holds the 300th Anniversary University Professorship at Harvard University. She has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981 and served as dean for eight years from 2009 to 2017. An expert in constitutional law and human rights, her work focuses on legal responses to social, political, and religious conflict, social justice, and the legal treatment of digital communications and technologies. Her books include Saving the News (2021) and When Should Law Forgive? (2019). She is chair of the board of Massachusetts public media (GBH) and recently completed service as chair of the board of the MacArthur Foundation and co-chair of the Access to Justice Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also serves on the boards of several philanthropies, including the Carnegie Corporation and the SCE Foundation, and on the board of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan organization devoted to strengthening electoral and voting processes in the United States.
Julian Aguon
Julian Aguon is an international human rights lawyer from Guam whose work sits at the intersection of climate justice, decolonization, and Indigenous rights. As founder of Blue Ocean Law, he has shaped international legal precedent, including advisory opinion proceedings before the International Court of Justice on climate change. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Right Livelihood Award laureate, Julian is also an educator, essayist, and mentor dedicated to training the next generation of advocates from the Pacific and beyond. He is the author of No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies.
Deborah Archer
Deborah Archer is the President of the ACLU, the first person of color to serve in that role in the organization’s history, and a nationally recognized expert on civil liberties, civil rights, and racial justice. She is the Margaret B. Hoppin Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Community Equity Initiative at New York University School of Law. Prior to full-time teaching, she worked as an attorney with the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she litigated cases involving voting rights, employment discrimination, educational equity, and school desegregation. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute, and the author of the national best-selling book Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality.
Robert Fricke
Robert K. Fricke co-founded his firm after previously working for several years as a litigation partner at one of the oldest and largest law firms in the state. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate, retiring after twenty years of service as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was a courtroom trial attorney during the first half of his career and presided over felony and misdemeanor trials as a judge during the final seven years of his Marine service. His practice focuses on civil and criminal litigation with an emphasis on courtroom trial practice. He is recognized by Chambers & Partners USA, holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent Rating, and is listed in Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Benchmark Litigation.
Jill Goldenziel
Jill Goldenziel is a professor at the National Defense University College of Information and Cyberspace, where she teaches international and constitutional law, national security strategy, and information warfare. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at NATO SHAPE/ACO Office of Legal Affairs and an Affiliated Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fox Leadership International Program. She advises senior Department of Defense officials and government leaders worldwide on lawfare, international law, and information operations, and coordinates counter-lawfare programs at four U.S. Combatant Commands. She has worked extensively on negotiations and implementation of the UN Global Compact for Migration. Through her consultancy, JG Strategy, she advises business leaders on leadership and geopolitical risk. She is a columnist for Forbes and Bloomberg Opinion, has testified before Congress, spoken in 15 countries, received NATO’s Serge Lazareff Prize, and earned two Joint Civilian Service Achievement Medals. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Matthew Stubenberg
Matthew Stubenberg is an attorney and legal technologist who runs a solo law firm dedicated to automating the law and making legal systems more accessible and efficient. He most recently served as Innovator in Residence at the William S. Richardson School of Law, where he built a number of tools and taught Coding for Lawyers and Cybersecurity Law. He has created numerous legal technology applications, including MDExpungement.com, which automated the expungement process in Maryland and helped generate more than 100,000 expungement applications.
Kellye Testy
Kellye Y. Testy is the executive director and chief executive officer of the Association of American Law Schools, which serves as the institutional membership organization for 175 law schools and as the learned society for the legal academy. Prior to joining AALS, she served as president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, dean and professor of law at the University of Washington School of Law from 2009 to 2017, and dean at Seattle University School of Law from 2005 to 2009. She is an award-winning teacher and scholar who brings an equity lens to business and corporate law. Her areas of expertise include leadership, business and corporate law, gender and the law, and legal education.
PAST J-TERM FACULTY & COURSES
Alan Jenkins*, Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School
Beth Ribet, Adjunct Professor, UC Law San Francisco
Francine Lipman, Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law
Matthew Stubenberg, Innovator in Residence, William S. Richrdson School of Law
Robert Fricke, Partner at Cox Fricke LLP
Maxine Burkett, Assistant Director for Climate, Ocean, and Equity at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
*Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor
Lindsay Wiley, Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Health Law & Policy Program, UCLA School of Law
Guy-Uriel Charles*, Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice
Dora Dome, Dora Dome Law
Palma Strand, Visiting Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School
Micky Minhas, Executive Director, Center for Intellectual Property, Franklin Pierce School of Law
*Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor
Paul Butler
I. Glenn Cohen*
Vincent Kimura
Wes Porter
Iyiola Solanke
*Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor
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Margaret Darin Hagen, Executive Director of the Legal Design Lab & Lecturer of Law, Stanford University
Access to Justice by Design: Developing a More Human-Centered Legal System
Rhonda V. Magee, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law
Mindfulness and Professional Identity Development: The Inner Workings of Justice for All
Guest Speaker: Noah Pomeroy, CLA Trained Mindfulness Facilitator and International Mindfulness Teachers Association Certified Mindfulness Teacher
Ruth L. Okediji, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Co-Director, Berkman Klein center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Access to Vaccines & Global Justice
Ruqaiijah Yearby, Professor of Law, St. Louis University School of Law; Co-Founder & Executive Director of Saint Louis University’s Institute for Healing Justice and Equity
Race, Gender & Health Justice
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Roger Fairfax, Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
Criminal Justice Transformation – Through ‘The Wire’
Erika George, Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, University of Utah College of Law
Business and Human Rights: Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and Policy
Francine J. Lipman, Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law
Tax & Social Justice: The Tax Treatment of Vulnerable Taxpayers
Tony Lai, Entrepreneurial Fellow (CodeX), Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
Legal Engineering for the Biosphere: Climate Policy, Extitutions, and Data Governance
Ruth L. Okediji, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
The Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge
Wes Porter, United States Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
Trial Practice Academy: Witness Examinations
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Rosalie Silberman Abella, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Protecting Rights in a Polarized World: The Canadian Experience
Frank Boas Visiting Harvard Professor Andrew Manuel Crespo, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence of the Roberts Court
Renee M. Jones, Associate Dean Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Start-Up Company Governance: Taming Unicorns
Stephen Pevar, Senior Staff Counsel, ACLU Racial Justice Program; Adjunct Professor of American Indian Law, Yale Law School
Rights of American Indian Tribes in the Era of Trump
Stephen Wizner, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale Law School
The Ethical Lawyer in the Trump Era: Partisan Advocate, Moral Actor, Trustee of Justice?
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Vicki Been, Boxer Family Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Gentrification: Reconciling the Need for Growth with the Desire for Stability
Doug Lasdon, Executive Director, Urban Justice Center; Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Dare to Care: Issues in Poverty Law
Richard Revesz, Lawrence King Professor of Law, Dean Emeritus, Director, Institute for Policy, Integrity, New York University School of Law
Presidential Transitions & Regulatory Policy
Lauren Robel, Provost, Indiana University – Bloomington; Executive Vice President, Van Nolan Professor of Law, Indiana University
Taking Trump to Court: Suing and Prosecuting a Sitting President
Wes Reber Porter, President and CEO at Damien Memorial School
Hawai’i Federal Trial Academy
Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Joseph Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Persuasion: Judging & Justice
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Kellye Testy, President and CEO of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC)
Rule of Law in Trumpian America
Alicia Alvarez, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Community and Economic Development Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School
Evicted: Housing Insecurity and the Right to the City
Lea VanderVelde, Joseph R. Witte Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law
Reconstruction: Three Little Amendments that Dramatically Changed the Constitution
Wes Reber Porter, President and CEO at Damien Memorial School
Hawai’i Federal Trial Academy
Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Martha Minow, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence and Harvard Distinguished Service Professor
Law, Justice & Forgiveness
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Ira Rosen (co-teaching), Producer for CBS News 60 Minutes
Investigative Journalism and the Innocence Movement
Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Abortion Regulation in the 21st Century
Barry C. Scheck (co-teaching), Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Investigative Journalism and the Innocence Movement
Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Kristen A. Stilt, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Comparative Animal Law
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at New York University Law School
Human Dignity
Robin West, Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center
Law and Humanities