March 4-8, 2019 – The Law School hosted its International Jurist in Residence, Justice Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, President of the East African Court of Justice in Arusha, Tanzania, for a seven-year term until November 2020.

Justice Ugirashebuja previously served as dean of the University of Rwanda Law School and as a member of the Rwandan Superior Council of Judiciary and Supreme Council of Prosecution. He has served as an expert and arbitrator in national and international arbitrations and has written numerous academic and conference papers. Justice Ugirashebuja holds a law degree from the former National University of Rwanda and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

During his visit, Justice Ugirashebuja met with the Hawai’i Supreme Court; lawyers and law students; and faculty and staff. He presented about the Rwandan Genocide and reconciliation and healing process to first-year law students and to the law school during Ka Huli Ao’s Maoli Thursday. He also visted Kaiser High students in the school’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. The law school hosted an Aloha Reception for him on Thursday, which included a planting in the courtyard and hula by ELP RA U’ilani Tanigawa Lum ’19.

Justice Ugirashebuja is a member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment and has worked extensively on environmental issues. ELP hosted a dinner for environmental law students and recent ELP graduates with the Justice. Those in attendance were able to ask him about his work and environmental issues in East Africa.

ELP was honored to have had the opportunity to learn from Justice Ugirashebuja.