Meet Our Faculty
Our faculty are internationally recognized experts across a wide range of fields and disciplines—from environmental law and Native Hawaiian law to international law and Pacific-Asian legal studies. They prepare Richardson Law School students for the complexities of law practice, while inspiring them to make lasting impacts in Hawaiʻi, throughout the United States, and internationally. Learn more about our Richardson ‘ohana below.
Faculty Research: Shaping Law and Policy
The faculty at Richardson Law School are leading scholars engaged in diverse and groundbreaking research. Their interdisciplinary scholarship shapes the development of law and policy in Hawaiʻi and beyond. In collaboration with law students, Richardson faculty produce books, scholarly articles, empirical studies, and essays that advance legal knowledge and grapple with important issues that impact lives and communities.
Featured Faculty Book
Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice
Invisible Atrocities assesses the role aesthetic factors play in shaping what forms of mass violence a reviewed as international crimes.
This book examines how associations between atrocity commission and the production of horrific spectacles shape the processes through which international crimes are identified and conceptualized, leading to the foregrounding of certain forms of mass violence and the backgrounding or complete invisibilization of others.
The publication recently received an honorable mention for the top book award from the Law and Society Association (LSA), the Herbert Jacob Prize.
Featured Faculty Book
Healing the Persisting Wounds of Historic Injustice: United States, South Korea and the Jeju 4.3 Tragedy
Healing the Persisting Wounds of Historic Injustice offers a pragmatic theoretical framework for shaping new reparative justice initiatives and for recalibrating stalled efforts (ranging from Black reparations to Korean “Comfort” Women).
And through its focus on potential U.S. participation in Jeju 4.3 social healing, it presents a vision for the United States as a democracy demonstrably committed to the rule of law and particularly to human rights as checks on excessive government security power.
Recent Faculty Scholarship
Deaning Critically: Leadership Fundamentals
by Dean Camille A. Nelson
In Deaning Critically, Dean Nelson contends that both Critical Race Theory and Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” offer foundational principles for understanding our society, culture, systems, and structures and provide key insights for leadership and critical deaning.
Pūpūkahi I Holomua: Critical Lessons of Social Healing Through Justice for Native Hawaiians
by Troy J.H. Andrade
In Pūpūkahi I Holomua, (forthcoming), Professor Andrade employs Prof. Eric Yamamoto’s social healing through justice working principles to examine the State of Hawai‘i’s uneven efforts to reconcile with Native Hawaiians for historical injustices.
Race and Consumer Law
by Andrea Freeman
In her chapter, Race and Consumer Law, in the Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States, Professor Freeman explores how racism intersects with different aspects of consumer activity, including retail redlining, racial profiling, the gig economy, car purchasing, credit, and mortgages.
Artificial Intelligence Subordination: Consequence of the Failure to Govern
by Emile Loza de Siles
In Artificial Intelligence Subordination, Professor Loza de Siles uniquely considers the impacts of the ongoing failure to govern artificial intelligence (AI) systems and uses for which humans are their decisional subjects and contends that this failure threatens a digital form of AI-mediated involuntary servitude and subordination.
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