Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 7, 1 July 2008 — Law students [ARTICLE]

Law students

Five law students received summer fellowships in Native Hawaiian law from the Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, allowing them to work on legal issues at organizations serving the Native Hawaiian conununity. The 2008 recipients are: Julian Aguon, who will head to Australia and New Zealand to research the potential uses and impacts of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Sunny Greer will work on Native Hawaiian burial issues at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; Mana Moriarty will work at Paul Johnson Park & Niles, representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in a water rights case; Davis Price will work at OHA's Native Rights, Land and Culture Hale; and Evan Silberstein will work at KAHEA, the HawaiianEnvironmental Allianee, on issues including the Papahānaumokuākea

Marine National Monument, environmental justice and coimnunity education on genetically modified organisms. The center also named its 2008 Native Hawaiian law research assistants, who will research, write and edit the second edition of the Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook. They are Malia Gibson, Li'ulā Kotaki, Mālama Minn, Nathaniel Noda, Scott Shishido and Nāpali Souza.