U.S. Supreme Court Updates
(LIVE IN PERSON)
Attendance in person is encouraged with 18 seats available, but if you need to attend via LIVE WEBCAST, please click here.
Date and Time: Thursday, July 25, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: HSBA Main Conference Room, 1100 Alakea Street, 10th Floor
Credit: This seminar qualifies for 1 CLE Credit.
Price:
$45.00 HSBA Members (LIVE)
$55.00 Non-HSBA Member (LIVE)*
$0 for Law Student HSBA Bar Card Member (LIVE)**
Register Early! Space is limited to 18 seats!
Cancellation/Refunds: Cancellation requests must be received (in writing to [email protected] or mail) by Thursday, July 18, 2024 for a full refund. There will be no refunds for No-Shows.
Summary:
Professor Soifer will discuss updates on the cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court following this year's hearing calendar.
Joining Professor Soifer, we would like to welcome Nick McLean, the Law Schools’s new assistant professor, concentrating on federal and state constitutional law.
Speakers:
Professor Avi Soifer, University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
Dean Soifer received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1972. He also holds B.A. cum laude (1969) and Masters of Urban Studies (1972) degrees from Yale.
While in law school, he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a director of the Law School Film Society, and a director of the Legal Services Organization. He helped to found the C.V.H. Project, representing people in Connecticut’s largest mental hospital. He clerked for then- Federal District Judge Jon O. Newman in 1972-73.
Soifer began his law teaching career at the University of Connecticut in 1973, received a Law and Humanities Fellowship at Harvard University in 1976–77, and taught at Boston University from 1979–1993. He served as Dean of Boston College Law School from 1993–1998, and continued to teach at BC until 2003, when he became Dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai’i.
Soifer received Boston College’s Distinguished Senior Research Award and he was appointed as a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin’s Legal Studies Institute. His book, Law and the Company We Keep (Harvard University Press, 1995) was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu Triennial National Jesuit Book Prize in professional studies.
He has an extensive record of scholarly publications, presentations, and public service activities and he continues to teach primarily in the areas of constitutional law, legal history, legal writing, and law and humanities.
Nick McLean, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
On August 1, 2024, Nick McLean will be joining the William S. Richardson School of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law. In that role, his teaching and writing focuses primarily in the areas of federal and state constitutional law.
Prior to joining Richardson Law, Mr. McLean served as a deputy solicitor general in the State of Hawai'i Department of the Attorney General and as an attorney in private practice. Previously, he clerked for Judge Richard Clifton on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2013.
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