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Lily Downing ’25 Shares About Her Experience at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Oregon

During the last weekend in February, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to Eugene, …

Alumna Jamila Jarmon Chosen as 2024-2025 Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader

In January, ELP Research Associates Malia Taylor Wolfe ’25 and Mehana Witthans ’25 sat with Jamila Jarmon ’10 …

COP 29 Reflections, Sophia Tidler: Absorbing COP

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties (COP) is such a vast learning …

ELP Alumnus Ciara Kahahane ’19 Appointed First Deputy of the Commission on Water Resource Management

ELP Research Associates Malia Taylor-Wolfe ’25 and Jessie Ho ’26 chat with Ciara Kahahane ’19 over ZOOM after Kahahane’s appointment as First Deputy of the Commission on Water Resource Management.

Top: Ciara Kahahane ‘19, Malia Taylor-Wolfe ʻ25
Bottom: Jessie Ho ‘26

ELP Fall 2024 Newsletter

Learn more about what ELP students and faculty have been up to in 2024!

Professor Wallsgrove Brings ELP Students to Hakalau

From October 18-20 2024, Environmental Law Program (ELP) students and friends visited Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on …

Students and Alumni Attend the 2024 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference

From left to right: Professor and ELP Co-Director David M. Forman ʻ93, Josh Eddington ʻ25, Marie Sonson ʻ25, …

Pua Kaiāula Students Visit William S. Richardson School of Law to Learn About Environmental Advocacy

Pua Kaiāula haumana (students) and kumu (teachers) pose with Professors Troy Andrade ‘11 and David Forman ‘93, and …

Celebrating the Class of 2024’s Environmental Law and Native Hawaiian Law Certificate Recipients

Top row (left to right): Maddie Walsh ʻ24, Dru Hara ʻ24, Kawaiuluhonua Scanlan ʻ24, Sophia Morgan ʻ24, McKenzie Gallagher ʻ24, and KHA Fellow Alexa Deike ‘21
Middle row (left to right): Denielle Pedro ʻ24, Kalei Akau ʻ24, Hannah Taum ʻ24, Lia Cook ʻ24, Emma Olsen ʻ24, Elena Chang ʻ24, Nakoa Gabriel ʻ24, and KHA Fellow Kaulu Luuwai ʻ21
Bottom row (left to right): Professor U‘ilani Tanigawa-Lum ‘19, Professor Susan Serrano ʻ98, Professor Kapua Sproat ʻ98, MJ Palau McDonald ʻ22, Professor Melody MacKenzie ʻ76, and Shellie McDow ʻ24

Reflections from the International Environmental Moot Court Team

From left to right: Xiao Yi Zhao, Nicole Harrison, and Alyssa Neri In April 2024, Hawaiʻi law students …