Students Reflect on the NCP Summer School

NCP Summer School Participants

“This experience allowed me to better understand international law through practice and immersion. In addition to the many ideas exchanged during presentations, the candid communications amongst students from across the globe outside of the conference elucidated different perceptions. I hope to use this experience and international environmental law theories and ideas to inform my work in Hawaiʻi.” – Evan Miyaki, Jr. ’23

Lunch with the international students

“Having volunteered for the Normandy Chair for Peace in the past, it is an honor to have been a part of the program and experience the fruition of its objectives. The program made me realize that Peace is truly attainable, and it is through each of our stories that we will forge its sustenance and scale.” – Constancio Paranal III ’22, current LLM student

Holly Crawford ’24 and David Forman ’93

“At the Normandy Chair for Peace conference we fostered connections with people from around the world, with whom we share the same passions and thirst for knowledge, in Caen, a small coastal town in northern France. This was a great privilege for me personally because my great-grandfather left Germany and fought for the United States in Normandy during WWII. The Conference emphasized something that many of us in Hawaiʻi feel daily: bridging international governments’ relationships with Indigenous Peoples is essential to heal our relationship with the planet. Conferences like these plant seeds that can help us understand how to bridge the gap between the world as it is now, and the healthy world that could be. The people, history, knowledge, and the place made this trip one that I will always remember!” – Holly Crawford ’24

ELP Co-Director David Forman said, “It was a pleasure to share with our students and others around the world some of the innovative thinking about environmental law that has been taking place in France.” Forman added that he was particularly pleased to be “one of the young-at-heart providing support to a youth panel that represented others around the world doing the heavy lifting in pursuit of an Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice to address the climate crisis.”

– EM 9/22/22