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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 (2025)
On Monday, January 8, the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa presents five classes led by preeminent, nationally-recognized legal experts who will explore fundamental, justice focused topics below.
Alan Jenkins (Frank Boas Visiting Harvard Professor)
Alan Jenkins is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on Race and the Law, Communication, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. Before joining the Law School faculty, he was President and Co-Founder of The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab. Jenkins’s prior positions have included Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the United States government in constitutional and other litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court; Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, where he managed grantmaking in the United States and eleven overseas regions; and Associate Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he defended the rights of low-income communities facing exploitation and discrimination. He previously served as a Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and to U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Carter.
Francine Lipman
Professor Francine J. Lipman brings to the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas an exceptional record as an accountant, a lawyer, a teacher, and a scholar. After working as a CPA in an international accounting firm and as the Chief Financial Officer for a chain of retail jewelry stores, Professor Lipman turned to law where she served as the Editor in Chief of the UC Davis Law Review and was recognized as an Outstanding Law Student and a member of the Order of the Coif. Following a similarly stellar record in NYU’s Graduate Tax Law Program, where she was a Tax Law Review Scholar, she practiced law with O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Irell & Manella LLP. Professor Lipman is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Tax Counsel, and the American Bar Foundation, and serves on the Board of the National Tax Association and as a Trustee of the American Tax Policy Institute. Lipman is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the award winning Human Rights magazine and is an active member and former co-chair of the Economic Justice committee for the Civil Rights and Social Justice Section of the American Bar Association. In 2016, Governor Brian Sandoval appointed, and in 2020 Governor Steve Sisolak reappointed, Professor Lipman to serve as Nevada Tax Commissioner. Professor Lipman has written extensively on tax and accounting issues for legal journals, including the Wisconsin Law Review, Florida Tax Review, Virginia Tax Review, SMU Law Review, Nevada Law Journal, American University Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Harvard Latino Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, The Tax Lawyer, The Practical Tax Lawyer, Taxes and Tax Notes. Professor Lipman is a frequent speaker on tax subjects to law and business groups.
Robert Fricke
Robert K. Fricke co-founded the firm after having previously worked for a number of years as a litigation partner in one of the oldest and largest law firms in the State. Prior to that, Mr. Fricke served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate, retiring after twenty years of service as a Lieutenant Colonel. Mr. Fricke was a courtroom trial attorney during the first half of his career as a Judge Advocate, and presided over felony and misdemeanor trials as a judge during the last seven years of his Marine service. Mr. Fricke concentrates his practice in the area of civil and criminal litigation with emphasis on courtroom trial practice. Recognized by Chambers & Partners USA, Mr. Fricke holds Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent Rating and is listed in Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Benchmark Litigation.
Matthew Stubenberg
Matthew Stubenberg is the Innovator in Residence at the William S. Richardson, School of Law where he teaches Coding for Lawyers and Cybersecurity Law. In addition to teaching he develops software to help automate legal procedures. Most recently he developed a chrome extension to help automate the expungement process in Hawaii. Matthew graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2013. Since graduating he has worked in a number of access to justice legal tech roles including the Sr. Application Specialist for the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, IT Director/Staff Attorney for the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), and associate director of legal technology for Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab. Matthew has created numerous innovative legal tech applications including MDExpungement.com a website which automated the expungement process in Maryland and helped to generate more than 100,000 expungement applications. He also created the CLUE program which scraped and housed millions of court records for researchers and advocates. Matthew has won several awards including the ABA Top 40 Young Lawyers, Daily Record’s 20 in their 20’s, and the Maryland Bar Foundation’s award for The Advancement of Rights of the Disadvantaged. His work has also been featured in the New York Times, ABA Journal, Daily Record, Open Law Lab, and Technical.ly.
Maxine Burkett
Maxine Burkett is the Assistant Director for Climate, Ocean, and Equity at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Most recently, she was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, where she advanced research on climate justice and public health, and is a Professor of Law (on loan) at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i. From January 2022 through July 2023, Burkett served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Fisheries, and Polar Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES). At OES, Burkett oversaw the formulation and implementation of U.S. policy on a broad range of international issues concerning the oceans, the Arctic, the Antarctic, and marine conservation. Prior to that appointment, Burkett served as an Expert Senior Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry where her portfolio included climate-related migration, climate security, bilateral relationships with island nations, and Indigenous Peoples’ engagement.
Before joining the Biden Administration, Maxine served on numerous commissions, state and federal committees, and the boards of several organizations dedicated to climate mitigation and adaptation, environmental and climate justice, and just transitions. Among other affiliations, Maxine is a member scholar of the International Law Association’s Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise, for which she served as a Co-Rapporteur from 2019 to 2021, and the American Law Institute.
Prof. Burkett received her B.A. from Williams College, which awarded her the Bicentennial Medal for Distinguished Achievement in 2016, and Exeter College, Oxford University. She received her J.D. from Berkeley Law, University of California, and served as a law clerk for The Honorable Susan Illston of the United States District Court, Northern District of California.
Beth Ribet
Beth Ribet (PhD, JD) is a socio-legal scholar and disability advocate. She completed her doctorate in Social Relations (Sociology and Anthropology) at the University of California-Irvine, and her law degree at UCLA, with a concentration in Critical Race Studies, Much of her scholarship and advocacy focuses on “disablement”, or the production of disabilities (i.e. injuries, illnesses, and impairments) through violence, exploitation and inequity. She co-founded Repair, a disability justice focused non-profit
organization, and also teaches in Law, Sociology, Gender Studies, and Disability Studies. In recent years, she has developed and launched several classes focused on white nationalism, Nazism, and right-wing populism in the United States. Her digital courses are frequently attended (and supervised) by her two cats, a grey tabby named Harriet, and a calico named Lindsay.
PAST J-TERM FACULTY & COURSES
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