Faculty & Staff

Lenora

Lee

Faculty Specialist
Administrative Director of University of Hawai`i Elder Law Program
Clinical Assistant Professor, Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing

Degrees

BA, Pomona College, 1962
MA, University of Hawai'i , 1965
AS, Kapi`olani Community College, 1978
MBA, Chaminade University, 1991
PhD, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2009

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 H. Pietsch, helped conceptualize and create the University of Hawai`i Elder Law Program (UHELP). combines a law school curriculum with a law practice. It, thus, provides students with experiential opportunities in serving those in our community who may be underrepresented and have limited financial resources. UHELP operates throughout the calendar year and provides basic legal assistance, advice, information and referrals.

Dr. Lee helps administer the UHELP program’s budget, personnel, and compliance requirements while providing direct legal services to clients by doing intake, conducting interviews, drafting legal documents and performing other law-related jobs under the supervision of a licensed attorney. Along with many other UHELP law events for our island community. She is instrumental in organizing the traditional annual “ ‘Nite’ of the Living Will,” an event where the community is invited to learn about end-of life issues and how to execute advance directives for health care documents . She also organizes University an annual United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims update on important issues facing this federal court with respect to veterans.

Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Hawai`i State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Liberty Bell Award for her contributions to the community. At the law school and school of nursing Professor Lee co-teaches the Health Law: Bioethics and Elder Law Clinic courses. She also teaches an undergraduate course, Gerontology, Health Care and Law.

Publications

  • 2024 The Essential Elder Law Hawai`i Handbook, Including Helpful Forms for Our Akamai Kupuna, Families and Caregivers, Executive Office on Aging, State of Hawai`i Department of Health. co-author with James H. Pietsch
  • 2023 Deciding What Documents I Need —Forms for Elder Law, A Legal Handbook for Hawaii’s Caregivers, Families and Older Persons, Hawaii Justice Foundation. co-author with James H. Pietsch  
  • 2022 Deciding To Navigate Elder Care–A Legal Handbook for Hawaii’s Caregivers, Families and Older Persons, Hawaii Justice Foundation. co-author with James H. Pietsch  
  • 2021 Deciding What To Do and Why Not Now?–A Legal Handbook for Hawaii’s Caregivers, Families and Older Persons, Hawaii Justice Foundation. co-author with James H. Pietsch  
  • 2020 Deciding What Matters—and What to Do, A Legal Handbook for Hawaii’s Caregivers, Families and Older Persons, Hawaii Justice Foundation, co-author with James H. Pietsch  
  • 2017 Chances Are: A Caregiver’s Legal Planner, co-author with James H. Pietsch
  • 2016 Deciding What’s Next and Trying to Remember,  A Legal Handbook for Hawai`i’s Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, co-author with James H. Pietsch
  • 2014 Kokua Packet Legal Planning Guide, co-author with James H. Pietsch
  • 2014 Deciding What’s Next and Who in the World Cares? A Legal Handbook for Hawai`i’s Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, co-author with James H. Pietsch
  • 2011 Deciding What’s Next? A Legal Handbook for Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, All Counties of Hawai`i edition, co-author with James H. Pietsch ScholarSpace
  • 2007, 2009, Deciding Who Cares? A Legal Handbook for Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, All Counties of Hawai`i edition, co-author with James H. Pietsch
  • 2003, 2004, 2005 Deciding What If? A Legal Handbook for Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, co-author with James H. Pietsch P ScholarSpace
  • 2009  A Good Death, The Politics of Physician Assisted Suicide in Hawai‘i, PhD dissertation ScholarSpace
  • 1999 The Elder Law Hawai`i Handbook, UH Press, co-author with James H. Pietsch
  • 1991-1998 The Akamai Kupuna, co-author with James H. Pietsch, five editions
  • 1994 Law of the Splintered Paddle, Kanawai Mamalahoe, editor ScholarSpace
portrait photo

Contact

Phone: (808) 956-6544
Fax: (808) 956-5569

lenoral@hawaii.edu

Office

Files

Classes

Course #Class TitleSemesterYear
590
Fall2023
532
Fall2014
532
Fall2018
532
Fall2017
532
Fall2017
532
Spring2021
532
Fall2018
532
Fall2016
532
Fall2019
532
Fall2015