Editors’ Note
Table of Contents

Articles

• Dr. Bal Kama, Expectations for Foreign Judges in the Implementation of Papua New Guinea’s “Home-Grown” Transformative Constitution
• Min K. Lee, Arbitrators Unbound: Contesting Arbitral Awards Based on an Error of Law in Korea

Comments

• Pono Arias, Part of the Solution: Addressing Honolulu’s Housing Crisis Through Inclusionary Housing Legislation
• Madelyn Lehualani McKeague, To Raise the Health Status of Native Hawaiians to the Highest Possible Level: An Expansive Reading of the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act

Articles

• Harley Broyles, Act 32 and Perpetuating Practices of Hawaiʻi Nā Pua o Haumea: How Hawaiʻi’s Midwifery Licensure Law Adversely Impacts Traditional Native Hawaiian Birthing PracticeP
• Dallin J. Prisbrey, Jodik: A Creative Proposal for Seeking Justice through Āneen Kio (Wake Island)
• Keith J. Hand, Constitutional Supervision in China After the 2018 Amendment of the Constitution: Refining the Narrative of Constitutional Supremacy in a Socialist Legal System
• Mark A. Levin & Makoto Messersmith, Presence and Voice: The History and Status Quo of Women Law Professors in Japan

Articles

• Devon H. Miller, Wahiawā Reservoir [Lake Wilson] and the Public Trust: A Neglected State Duty
• Khajorndej Direksoonthorn, Causation and Loss of a Chance: The Issues Yet to be Addressed in Medical Negligence Claims in Thailand
• Dr. Mark D. Kielsgard, A Comparative Analysis of the Criminal Exclusionary Rule in the People’s Republic of China with the United Kingdom
• Daya J. Taylor, Improving Wet Market Regulation to Control the Spread of Disease

Articles

• Terina Kamailelauli’i Fa’agau, Reclaiming the Past for Mauna a Wākea’s Future: The Battle Over Collective Memory and Hawai’i’s Most Sacred Mountain
• Michael C.M. Louis, Dixie Mission II: The Legality of a Proposed U.S. Military Observer Group to Taiwan
• Constancio Carvajal Paranal III, The Internet as a Public Accommodation and its Impact on Higher Education
• Aileen S. Kim, The Road to the Truth: Lessons From South Korea’s Truth Commissions
• Juan Paolo M. Artiaga, The Sub Judice Rule in the Philippines as an Interference in the Right to the Freedom of Expression: Determining Tensions and Defining Legal Standards to Address Conflicting Interests

Articles

• Justice Jae Hyung Kim, The Judicial Responsibility to Guarantee Fundamental Rights: Reviewing the Decision of the Supreme Court of Korea on Conscientious Objection to Military Service
• Daisuke Akimoto, Takeshima or Dokdo? Toward Conflict Transformation of the Japan-Korea Territorial Dispute
• Preston Jordan Lim, Applying International Law Solutions to the Xinjiang Crisis
• Mao-hong Lin, A Legal Game of Crime Control: Bifurcation Policy and DUI Law in Taiwan

Bibliography

• Brandon Marc T. Higa, Okinawa and Human Rights Scholarship in the Law and Japan Field: A Bibliographic Compilation

Articles

• Jongsok Choi, How to Develop an International Arbitration Industry in South Korea
• Sabrina Rose Kamakakaulani Gramberg, Piliʻōlelo: E Ahona Kānaka I Ke O‘a Kānāwai
• Brandon Marc Higa, Unpacking Okinawa’s “Suitcase Murder”: Revisiting Extraterritoriality Protections for Military Contractors Under the U.S.-Japan SOFA Supplementary Agreement
• Martin Kwan, Understanding the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal: Statistics and Inexplicable Patterns
• Calvin Pang & Makoto Kurokawa, Viewing Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows and Shoplifters Through Legal-Social Lenses

Comment

• William N.K. Crowell, Chipping Away at the Public Trust Doctrine: Mauna Kea and the Degradation Principle

Bibliography

• Mark A. Levin & Kallista Hiraoka, Gender and Law Scholarship in the Law in Japan Field: A Comprehensive Bibliographic Study

Articles

• Gemelee G. Hirang, Determinants of Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN: A Correlation Analysis
• Michael Zhiyong Zhong, New Rural Cooperative Finance in China: The Problem and Its Solution 

Comments

• James Daugherty, A Legal Framework for Traditional Rights and Conservation: Yap as a Case Study
• Ryan C. Schmidtke, “Artificial Islands” of the Future: The Seasteading Movement and the International Legal Regimes Governing Seasteads in EEZs and on the High Seas

Articles

• Rung-Guang Lin, Religion as a Problem: Three Legislative Regulations that Form the Basis of the Relationship Between the State and Religious Organizations in Taiwan
• Rong T. Kohtz, Current State, Developments and Trends of Chinese Family Law From Recent Cases Reported by the Supreme People’s Court
• Allan Chester B. Nadate, Moving Forward from the Historically Incongruous Treatment of Mens Rea in Philippine Criminal Law

Comments

• Lydia M.S. Fuatagavi, An Analysis of the Rights of Children in Foster Care in Hawai`i
• Eddie Iosinto Yeichy, A Failed Relationship: Micronesia and the United States of America

Comments

• Taylor Brack, The Greatest Wealth: Health as a Human Right in China, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States
• Hikina Chock, Lost in the Waves of Western Standards: Analyzing the Fundamental Right to a Hawaiian Immersion Education
• A. Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum, Accessing Traditional Kīpuka: Protecting the Storehouse of Knowledge Through the Rule of Law

Article

• Hiroharu Saito, Japanese Divorce Lawyers: Their Success After Their Own Divorce
• Yi Wei, Towards the Full Promise of Liberty: A Comparative Approach to the Decriminalization of Male Homosexual Sex in Singapore
• Friedrich Baumgaertel, Role and Function of Independent and Outside Directors in Japan: After the 2015 Amendment of the Companies Act and the Implementation of Japan’s Corporate Governance Code

Comment

• Ryan McDermott, Umberger: A Louder Voice for the Environment

Film Review

• Alison W. Conner, Christmas Rose: Hong Kong Movie in a Chinese Time?

Articles

• Cheryl L. Daytec-Yañgot, Transcending Aboriginality and Minority: Indigeneity in Asia as a Construct of Structural Oppression Under the Economic Globalization Regime
• Harneel K. Lally, Fiji: Various Issues of Alienation of Land Through Failed Land Tenure & Policy
• Russell Stanley Q. Geronimo, Unbundled Shares: Circumventing Corporate Nationality Rules Through Swaps, Options, and Other Devices
• Jeremy M. Tsuchitani-Watson, Karōshi, Karō Jisatsu, and Gender Discrimination: Japan’s Human Rights Violations
• Anita H. S. Hurlburt, Building Constructive Prison Reform on Norway’s Five Pillars, Cemented with Aloha

Translation

• Koji Higashikawa, Japan’s Hate Speech Laws: Translations of the Osaka City Ordinance and the National Act to Curb Hate Speech in Japan

Articles

• Jisuk Woo & Justin D. Levinson, Diversity, Dialogue, and Deliberation: An Empirical Investigation of Age, Gender, and Meaningful Decision-Making in Korean Juries
• Xue Yang, Community Corrections Programs in China: New Forms of Informal Punishments?
• Eva Pils, From Independent Lawyer Groups to Civic Opposition: The Case of China’s New Citizen Movement
• Franklin Troy Fegurgur, “Half an American”: Guam Veterans’ Struggle for Voter Equality
• Brandon Marc Higa, Japan’s Anti-Conspiracy Law: Relinquishing Japan’s Civil Liberties in the Name of Global Counterterrorism Efforts

Articles

• Jingmeng Cai, Private Antitrust Enforcement of Resale Price Maintenance in China: What Lessons can China Learn from the United States
• Yang Feng, The Legislation in Autonomous Areas of China: Progress, Limitations and Recommendations
• Gary Lilienthal & Nehaluddin Ahmad, The South China Sea Islands Arbitration: Making China’s Position Visible in Hostile Waters
• Kathryn Stanaway, Sustainable Nearshore Marine Fisheries in Hawai‘i: Applying Principles from Traditional Practitioners in Hawai‘i and Aotearoa New Zealand

Articles

• Dr. Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, Japan and the Liberal Global-Order Project: A Time to Stop and Stare
• Qijun Jiang & Ying Zhu, Challenges for Enforcing Food Safety Law and Regulations in China: Case Studies of Government Agencies in the Shanghai Region
• Daniel Pascoe, What The Rejection Of Anwar Ibrahim’s Petition For Pardon Tells Us About Malaysia’s Royal Pardon System
• Matthew W. Parker, Dying to Spite the Graveyard: Thailand and the Necessity of Creating a Culture-Based IP Enforcement Paradigm
• Sara Hayden, Electing the Bench: An Analysis of the Possible Negative Effects of Judicial Elections on Hawaiʻi’s Legal Community

Articles

• Eric Corthay, The ASEAN Doctrine of Non-Interference in Light of the Fundamental Principle of Non-Intervention
• Lezlie Kīʻaha, Thinking Outside The Bars: Using Hawaiian Traditions and Culturally-Based Healing to Eliminate Racial Disparities Within Hawaiʻi’s Criminal Justice System
• Ivy Yeung, The Price of Citizenship: Would Citizenship Cost American Samoa its National Identity?

Translation

• Kaori Kano & Stacey Leanne Steele, Japan’s Lay Judge System (Saiban-in Seido) and Legislative Developments: Annotated Translation of the Act Amending the Act on Criminal Trials with Participation of Saiban-in

Articles

• Jody M. Prescott, Eiko Iwata, & Becca H. Pincus, Gender, Law and Policy: Japan’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
• Dr. Wei Wen,  How American Common Law Doctrines May Inform Mainland China to Achieve Certainty in Land Sale Contracts
• Dr. Samrat Sinha & Dr. Upasana Mahanta, Disjuncture in Law, Policy and Practice: The Situation of Child Welfare in India’s Conflict Affected Regions

Comment

• Alyssa S. King, Procedural Perils: China’s Supreme People’s Court on the Enforcement of Awards in International Arbitration

Articles

• Wang Linzhu, The Identification of Minorities in China
• Jordan Kealaikalani Inafuku, E Kūkulu ke Ea: Hawaiʻi’s Duty to Fund Kahoʻolawe’s Restoration Following the Navy’s Incomplete Cleanup
• Williamson Chang, Darkness over Hawaii: The Annexation Myth Is the Greatest Obstacle to Progress

Special Symposium Issue – The Role of Law and Lawyers for Disaster Victims: A UC Hastings-Waseda Symposium on the Legal Aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Disaster

• Setsuo Miyazawa, Introduction to the Symposium Issue, The Role of Law and Lawyers for Disaster Victims: A UC Hastings-Waseda Symposium on the Legal Aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Disaster
• Eric A. Feldman, Compensating the Victims of Japan’s 3-11 Fukushima Disaster
• Takao Suami, Legal Support to Fukushima Municipality: Law School, Lawyers, and Nuclear Disaster Victims
• Kenji Fukuda, Need of Rights‐Based Approach in Government Support for the Victims of Fukushima Nuclear Accident
• Yoshitaka Wada, Rethinking the Meaning of Damages and Disaster – Incommensurability and Power in Disputing Process

Articles

• Rebecca Wolozin, Citizenship Issues and Issuing Citizenship: A Case Study of Sri Lanka’s Citizenship Laws in a Global Context
• Larry Catá Backer, Crafting a Theory of Socialist Democracy For China in the 21st Century: Considering Hu Angang’s (胡鞍钢) Theory of Collective Presidency in the Context of the Emerging Chinese Constitutional State
• Megumi Honami, How Successful is Japan’s Labor Tribunal System?: The Labor Tribunal’s Limited Scope and Effectiveness
• Jeffrey K. L. Lee, Mediation in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Can They Learn from Each Other?
• Yuki Arai, Is Japan Ready to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage?

Articles

• Eric K. Yamamoto, Miyoko Pettit, & Sara Lee, UNFINISHED BUSINESS: A Joint South Korea and United States Jeju 4.3 Tragedy Task Force to Further Implement Recommendations and Foster Comprehensive and Enduring Social Healing Through Justice
• Sale Kwon, Facts That Shed Light on Intent of Single-Firm Refusals to Deal: Comparative Review of the United States and the Republic of Korea Jurisprudence
• Earl V. Brown, Jr. & Kyle A. deCant, Exploiting Chinese Interns As Unprotected Industrial Labor
• Koji Miyakawa, Inside the Supreme Court of Japan—From the Perspective of a Former Justice, translation by Mark A. Levin & Megumi Honami Lachapelle

Comment

• Daylin-Rose Gibson, Remembering the “Big Five”: Hawaiʻi’s Constitutional Obligation to Regulate the Genetic Engineering Industry

Articles

• Eric A. San Juan, Cultural Jurisprudence
• Heather Whitney, Vietnam: Water Pollution and Mining in an Emerging Economy
• Ching-Ping Shao, Representative Litigations in Corporate and Securities Laws by Government-Sanctioned Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons from Taiwan
• Dr. Mark D. Kielsgard & Dr. Lei Chen, The Emergence of Private Property Law in China and Its Impact on Human Rights

Bibliography

• Mark A. Levin & Adam Mackie, Truth or Consequences of the Justice System Reform Council: An English Language Bibliography from Japan’s Millennial Legal Reforms

Translation

• Southern Weekend Editorial Board, The Ten Most Influential Cases for 2011, translation by Dr. Lawrence C. Foster, et al.

Articles

• Andrew Wolman, Looking Back While Moving Forward: The Evolution of Truth Commissions in Korea
• Breann Swann Nu`uhiwa, Government of the People, by the People, for the People:  Cultural Sovereignty, Civil Rights, and Good Native Hawaiian Governance
• Shin-Rou Lin, A Costly Illusion?: An Empirical Study of Taiwan’s Use of Isolation to Control Tuberculosis Transmission and its Implications for Public Health Law and Policymaking
• Antonio L. Cortés, Land in Trust: The Invasion of Palau’s Land-Tenure Customs by American Law

Comment

• Randall M. Wat, The Law of Green Buildings in Hawai`i:  Is the Goal of Energy Efficiency Achievable?

Articles

• Yun-Hsien Diana Lin, Lesbian Parenting in Taiwan: Legal Issues and the Latest Developments
• Carole J. Petersen, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Hong Kong: A Case for the Strategic Use of Human Rights Treaties and the International Reporting Process
• Rebecca L. Stotzer & Holning Lau, Sexual Orientation-Based Violence in Hong Kong

Essay

• Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Japan’s 2003 Gender Identity Disorder Act: The Sex Reassignment Surgery, No Marriage, and No Child Requirements as Perpetuations of Gender Norms in Japan

Adapted Transcription

• Dr. Dédé Oetomo, New Kids on the Block: Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity in Southeast Asia

Comment

• Adam R. Chang, A Non-Native Approach to Decolonizing Settler Colonialism within Hawaii’s LGBT Community

Articles

• Jonathan G. Odom, What Does a “Pivot” or “Rebalance” Look Like? Elements of the U.S. Strategic Turn Towards Security in the Asia-Pacific Region and Its Waters
• E. Sunny Greer, Na Wai E Hoʻōla i Nā Iwi? Who Will Save the Bones: Native Hawaiians and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Comments

• Bradley Sova, Double-Double Trademark Trouble: In-N-Out and CaliBurger’s International Burger Brawl
• Garrett Halydier, A Hybrid Legal and Economic Development Model that Balances Intellectual Property Protection and Economic Growth: A Case Study of India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam
• Nicole Manglona Torres, Self-Determination Challenges to Voter Classifications in the Marianas After Rice v. Cayetano:  A Call for a Congressional Declaration of Territorial Principles