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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. The Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor Fund supports many of our other J-Term professors.

Current J-Term FACULTY & Courses (2022)

On Friday, January 14, the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa presents four classes led by preeminent, nationally-recognized legal experts who will explore fundamental, justice focused topics below. Download the J-Term Event Flyer [PDF, 912KB]

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

PAST J-TERM FACULTY & COURSES

For more information on past J-Term courses, search the HOKU Class Datatbase.

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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

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