  {"id":87750,"date":"2018-11-27T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=87750"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:21:21","slug":"carlsmith-ball-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/27\/carlsmith-ball-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> law school faculty recognized by local law firm"},"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_87812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87812\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/manoa-law-distinguished-faculty-1.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo with giant ceremonial check\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/manoa-law-distinguished-faculty-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/manoa-law-distinguished-faculty-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In center, Carlsmith Ball Scholars Conner, Mirkay and Lawrence, with Dean Soifer, flanked by four of the firm\u2019s attorneys, all Richardson graduates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three faculty members at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/personnel\/conner\/alison\"><strong>Alison Conner<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/personnel\/lawrence\/charles\"><strong>Charles Lawrence<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/person\/nicholas-mirkay\"><strong>Nicholas Mirkay<\/strong><\/a>&#8212;have been named Carlsmith Ball Scholars for their exemplary research work.<\/p>\n<p>Conner is a China expert specializing in analysis of Chinese film that defines legal and social change in the country. Lawrence is a life-long civil rights activist who continues to evaluate social justice issues, especially in today&#8217;s polarized society. Mirkay&#8217;s expertise in tax law enables him to scrutinize the impact of the latest federal tax law changes and their long-term effects, including on state taxation.<\/p>\n<p>A law school advisory committee was involved in choosing the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> faculty scholars, who will have staggered terms. Conner will have a three-year term, Mirkay two years and Lawrence one year.<\/p>\n<p>Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/personnel\/soifer\/aviam\"><strong>Avi Soifer<\/strong><\/a> said he was grateful to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsmith.com\/\">Carlsmith Ball law firm<\/a> for its ongoing support. &ldquo;Not only does this assist our distinguished faculty in continuing their own research, it provides profound depth to what they already bring to their classroom work and to our students,&rdquo; said Soifer.<\/p>\n<p>Added Carlsmith Ball Co-Chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsmith.com\/pages\/joanne-lo-grimes\"><strong>Joanne Lo Grimes<\/strong><\/a>, a <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> law school graduate, &ldquo;We are proud to support the William S. Richardson School of Law and its faculty, and to provide opportunities for its faculty to further their research and scholarship.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, including bios of the scholars, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/article\/three-distinguished-uh-law-faculty-named-prestigious-carlsmith-ball-scholars\">law school website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Beverly Creamer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Conner, Charles Lawrence and Nicholas Mirkay are Carlsmith Ball Scholars for their expertise in China law, social justice and tax expertise, respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[598,154,9,68],"class_list":["post-87750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-faculty-recognition","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\/87750","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=87750"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112989,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87750\/revisions\/112989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}