  {"id":46896,"date":"2016-06-13T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=46896"},"modified":"2020-03-12T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T00:13:02","slug":"law-school-hosts-the-india-hawai%ca%bbi-law-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/13\/law-school-hosts-the-india-hawai%ca%bbi-law-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Law school hosts the India-Hawai\u02bbi law symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_46970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46970\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-law-kumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-law-kumar.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-law-kumar-189x260.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raj Kumar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2016 India-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Law Symposium: Environmental Rule of Law, Environmental Courts, Climate, and Constitutions, will be held June 16, 9:30 <abbr title=\"before noon\">a.m.<\/abbr>&#8211;5 <abbr title=\"after noon\">p.m.<\/abbr> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a>. Among many topics, speakers will address climate trends in Hawai&#699;i, India&#8217;s climate initiatives and cases, and environmental crimes in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium is a result of the growing partnership between the <a href=\"http:\/\/supremecourtofindia.nic.in\/\">Supreme Court of India<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentribunal.gov.in\/\">National Green Tribunal<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.hi.us\/courts\/supreme\/hawaii_supreme_court\">Supreme Court of the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> and the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> law school.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance will be several special guests, including Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Associate Justice A.K. Sikri of the Supreme Court of India, President Chairperson Swatanter Kumar of the National Green Tribunal, Ambassador Venkatesan Ashok, consul general of India (San Francisco Consulate) and Vice Chancellor Raj Kumar of O.P. Jindal Global University\/Dean of Jindal Global Law School.<\/p>\n<p>There will be panels, workshops and lectures that include participation by <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s Supreme Court Justices, as well as <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> law school faculty from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hawaii.edu\/elp\/\">Environmental Law Program<\/a>, and faculty from other U.S. law schools.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are truly honored to have this very high level delegation of visitors coming to our law school as part of our growing collaboration with Jindal Global Law School, the National Green Tribunal of India, the India Judiciary and our <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Supreme Court,&rdquo; said Professor <strong>Denise Antolini<\/strong>, associate dean for academic affairs at the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> law school. &ldquo;The symposium will also be a great opportunity to recognize and celebrate the first anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.hi.us\/special_projects\/environmental_court\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Environmental Court<\/a>, which will be the focus of a panel of experts and the closing plenary session.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more about the symposium read the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=7961\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa School of Law news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Manoa law school public symposium addresses climate and environmental issues in India and Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[134,9,68],"class_list":["post-46896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-international","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46896"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113323,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46896\/revisions\/113323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}