Chang, Williamson B.C.
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Professor Williamson Chang is the longest serving member of the William S. Richardson School of Law faculty. He is a graduate of Princeton and “Boalt Hall” the law school at the University of California at Berkeley. After graduation he clerked for a United States District Court Judge in Hawaii—Dick Yin Wong. He began teaching in 1976. During his career he taught many courses, taught at many law schools and was Senior Fulbright Scholar in Australia. He was a Special Deputy Attorney General representing Chief Justice William S. Richardson in a number of major property rights cases in Hawai‘i. He was also a senior legislative counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs in Washington and litigation director of the Native Hawaiian Advisory Council, a non-profit devoted to assisting Hawaiians and farmers with their water rights claims. He is well known for his work in water rights and was secretary to the commission that drafted the State Water Code. He has taught many courses, including Water Rights, Business Associations, Conflicts of Law, Native Hawaiian Rights and has started a new course on the creation of a Hawaiian Nation: “To Grow a Nation.”
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ItemInterpreters for the Defense: Due Process for the Non-English-Speaking Defendant( 1975)The authors of this Comment contend that the communications problems of non-English-speaking indigent defendants can best be solved by the appointment of court-compensated interpreters. Although they evaluate recent legislative proposals directed at these problems, the authors stress the arguments derived from considerations of equal protection and due process which support a possible constitutional right to interpreters.
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ItemMeaning, Reference, and Reification in the Definition of a Security( 1986)Among the most critical problems in securities regulation is determining what constitutes a "security." The Supreme Court has never positively identified the essential features of a security. If the Court ever arrives at a comprehensive definition, its decision will affect many corporations and major economic transactions. In this Article, Professor Chang develops a comprehensive, yet relatively simple model that defines security for the purposes of federal regulation and reconciles the Court's major securities decisions. The Article also provides insight into the use of language, describes the implications of "open-ended" legislative intent, and offers a framework with which to view the dialectic process of common lawmaking as a consistent evolution of standards.
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ItemReversals of Fortune: The Hawaii Supreme Court, the Memorandum Opinion, and the Realignment of Political Power in Post-statehood Hawai'i( 1992)The Richardson-led Hawaii Supreme Court (1966-82) has been characterized as "controversial, " having "altered Hawaii law so that it became more reflective of the islands' uncommon cultural heritage. "I In contrast, the court under the direction of Herman T. Lum has been called "passive," "a care-taker rather than the player it was under William Richardson," emphasizing "efficiency."