Credit: This seminar qualifies for 1 CLE Credit

This program is a recording of the Live Webcast Seminar held on August 12, 2026.

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Summary:

Professors Avi Soifer, Kamaile Turčan, and Nick McLean will discuss updates on the cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court following this year's term.

Panelists:

Aviam Soifer, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law

Professor 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 Hawaiʻi.

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, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law

Nick McLean joined the faculty of the William S. Richardson School of Law in August 2024 as an assistant professor of law. He teaches Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility, and Appellate Advocacy. Professor McLean’s scholarship explores contemporary issues in constitutional and public law, with particular emphasis on state constitutionalism, the intersection of poverty and constitutional doctrine, and the constitutional regulation of punishment and economic sanctions.

Before joining the Richardson Law faculty, Professor McLean served as First Deputy Solicitor General in the office of the Hawaiʻi Attorney General. In that role, his work focused on constitutional litigation in matters involving public health, public safety, and consumer protection. Professor McLean graduated magna cum laude from Yale College and earned his J.D. from Yale Law School. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Richard Clifton on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Kamaile A.N. Turčan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law

Kamaile Turčan (née Nichols) joined the William S. Richardson School of Law in 2023 as an Associate Professor of Law and teaches Civil Procedure and Administrative Law, among other courses in support of the Environmental Law Program curriculum. She is an alumna of Richardson, where she served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the University of Hawai‘i Law Review and earned an Environmental Law Certificate.

Prior to joining the faculty at Richardson, Professor Turčan was a partner at Jones Day in Washington DC, where she maintained an appellate advocacy and complex civil litigation practice. She has also served in government at both the state and federal levels. Professor Turčan was an Attorney Advisor in the Office of General Counsel, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where she provided legal advice to agency clients on the application of federal law to the management of fishery resources and protected species within the Western and Central Pacific Region. At the state level, she was the second Marine Law Fellow hired under the Environmental Law Program’s fellowship program to the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR). She previously clerked for Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Richard Clifton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge David Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai‘i.

Duration: approximately 1 hour

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