Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 27, 2008. Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law at the University of Hawaii School of Law will be presenting a workshop “Hawaii State Historic Preservation Laws: Reclaiming the Past, Shaping the Future.”
I will be speaking on “Background Principles and Paradigm Shifting: The Role of Property Rights in Historic Preservation Laws.”
The other speakers will be Dr. Kehau Abad, Oahu Island Burial Council; Dawn N.S. Chang, Kuiwalu; Prof. Carl C. Christensen, William S. Richardson School of Law; Dr. Thomas S. Dye, T.S. Dye and Associates; Moses Haia, Esq., Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; Dr. Holly McEldowney, DLNR, Division of State Parks; Nancy McMahon, DLNR, Historic Preservation Division; Kai Markell, Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and William M. Tam, Esq., Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Patrick Kirch, Departments of Anthropology and Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
The workshop will run from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, in Classroom #3 at the Law School (2515 Dole Street, Honolulu).
Best of all, there is no registration fee, and the public is welcome to attend. Please RSVP by September 19 to nhlawctr@hawaii.edu.