{"id":65764,"date":"2017-09-19T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=65764"},"modified":"2020-03-12T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:21:44","slug":"oha-and-law-school-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/19\/oha-and-law-school-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"Office of Hawaiian Affairs\">OHA<\/abbr> and law school partnership continues to serve the Native Hawaiian community"},"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_65861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65861\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-law-oha-partnership.jpg\" alt=\"two people looking at computer screen\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-law-oha-partnership.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-law-oha-partnership-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/manoa-law-oha-partnership-630x353.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Environmental Law Clinic students work with N\u0101 Wai  <span aria-label=\"Eha\">&#699;Eh\u0101<\/span>community members on water rights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oha.org\/\">Office of Hawaiian Affairs<\/a> (<abbr title=\"Office of Hawaiian Affairs\">OHA<\/abbr>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/kahuliao\">Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> finalized an agreement to continue the <span aria-label=\"Ao\">A&#699;o<\/span> Aku <span aria-label=\"Ao\">A&#699;o<\/span> Mai Initiative. The initiative was created to provide access to justice for Native Hawaiians through legal education and direct legal services on issues of importance to the Native Hawaiian community. <abbr>OHA<\/abbr> has committed $150,000 for Ka Huli Ao to hire a post-juris doctor fellow and offer a minimum of four legal clinics over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2011, this phase of the initiative aims to expand the base of knowledge and support on issues impacting <abbr>OHA<\/abbr> beneficiaries and the state&#8217;s natural resources, especially those in rural\u00a0Neighbor Island communities. Inspired by Native Hawaiian tradition, <span aria-label=\"Ao\">A&#699;o<\/span> Aku <span aria-label=\"Ao\">A&#699;o<\/span> Mai reflects the fact that learning is a shared and symbiotic process that respects the transfer of knowledge both from community members to students and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are honored to continue partnering with <abbr title=\"Office of Hawaiian Affairs\">OHA<\/abbr> in this important endeavor and we are thrilled to expand our reach to other legal issues that have an impact on Native Hawaiians, especially those in rural communities,&rdquo; explained Ka Huli Ao Associate Professor and Environmental Law Clinic Director Kapua Sproat. &ldquo;Through this Initiative, we hope to create a lasting legacy that will continue \u0101 mau loa,&rdquo; said Ka Huli Ao Associate Professor and Environmental Law Clinic Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/person\/d-kapua%E2%80%98ala-sproat-98\"><strong>Kapua Sproat<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/article\/oha-and-ka-huli-ao-continue-initiative-serve-native-hawaiian-community\">law school&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative was created to provide access to justice through legal education and direct legal services on issues of importance to Native Hawaiian community.<\/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":[33,154,9,68],"class_list":["post-65764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaiian","tag-law","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\/65764","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=65764"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113269,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65764\/revisions\/113269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}