Biography After practicing law for five years (in New York City and Honolulu), Carole taught law in Hong Kong for 17 years. She served as the Director of the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Public Law from 2001–2004 and assisted members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council … [Read more...] about Carole J. Petersen
Faculty
Dina Shek ’06
Biography Dina Shek is a licensed attorney in the state of Hawai‘i. She is a proud graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law where she serves as the Legal Director for the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children, a program she co-founded in 2009. Dina is also a clinic … [Read more...] about Dina Shek ’06
Keiko Okuhara
Biography Ms. Keiko Okuhara is the Metadata Services Librarian at the William S. Richardson School of Law Library since 2003 and the Associate Director of the Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Program since 2020. After graduating from the Library School of the North Carolina Central University in 1994, … [Read more...] about Keiko Okuhara
Catherine Bye
Biography After receiving her degree in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Education, Ms. Bye worked 2 years at the Humboldt County Office of Education in Eureka, California. She then moved to Hawai`i in the summer of 1992 to attend the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa where she received her Master's … [Read more...] about Catherine Bye
Lenora Lee
Biography Lenora H. Lee, PhD is a faculty specialist at the William S. Richardson School of Law, the administrative director of the University of Hawai`i Elder Law Program and a clinical assistant professor at the Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing. In 1991 she, along with Professor James … [Read more...] about Lenora Lee
John L. Barkai
Biography Professor Barkai joined the Hawaii law faculty in 1978, but started full-time law teaching in Detroit in the Fall of 1973, the same semester that the UH Law School opened. As such, he has been a law professor longer than any other professor who has ever taught at our law … [Read more...] about John L. Barkai
