The Speakers
Adair Fincher
Adair Fincher is Director of the Republic of Palau Financial Intelligence Unit, the country’s AML/CFT regulator; and legal counsel to the Financial Institutions Commission, the country's banking regulator.
APLPJ Co-EIC, Volume 14
Brengyei R. Katosang
Brengyei R. Katosang is a 2007 alumnus of the William S. Richardson School of Law living back in her home country of Palau. Upon graduating from Richardson she worked as a Housing Attorney at Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, then returned home to Palau to work as legal counsel in Palau's national congress for several years. Brengyei has since then been in the private sector practicing in areas involving civil, criminal, corporation, and land matters, as well as representing numerous government entities.
APLPJ Staff Editor, Volume 8
Christiaan Mitchell
Christiaan Mitchell is an assistant attorney general for the Republic of Palau, and an adjunct professor in Southern Nazarene University’s Doctor of Education in Administration & Leadership program teaching critical history, and policy advocacy.
APLPJ Executive Editor, Volume 15
Clement Yow Mulalap
Clement Yow Mulalap as an international law consultant, with a focus on international environmental law, law of the sea, human rights law, and Indigenous Peoples law. He is currently the Legal Adviser for the Permanent Mission of the Federated States of Micronesia to the United Nations in New York.
APLPJ Outside Articles Editor, Volume 11
Representative Della Au Belatti
Representative Della Au Belatti is a 2003 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i. She is a practicing attorney with the Law Office of Eric A. Seitz, and is currently serving her 9th term as the Representative of State House District 26 (Makiki, Tantalus, Punchbowl, & Papakolea).
APLPJ Managing Editor, Volume 4
Derek Kauanoe
Derek Kauanoe is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi. Previously, he was a Professor of Practice, Teaching Fellow, and interim Tribal Justice Clinic Director at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on Native Hawaiian self-governance and U.S. domestic law.
APLPJ Staff Editor, Volume 8
Garrett Halydier
Garrett I. Halydier, JD, MBA is a Visiting Assistant Professor, Interim Director of Academic Success, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Asian-Pacific Business Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He teaches both business law and cannabis law courses. His recent publications compile the diverse harms of the War on Drugs and demonstrate structural and theoretical reasons for how current social equity policies continue to fail while proposing broader solutions for achieving social equity in the cannabis industry.
APLPJ Co-EIC, Volume 16
Henderson Huihui
Henderson Huihui is a Staff Attorney at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, the only law firm dedicated to Native Hawaiian rights. Henderson’s practice focuses on the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. Cases include lease cancelation prevention to breach of trust claims against the State.
APLPJ Staff Editor, Volume 21
Mark Levin
Professor Mark Levin joined the Richardson Law School faculty in January 1997 from the Law Department of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1983, Professor Levin developed an interest in Japan while working in international business and financial transactions at Masuda and Ejiri, one of Tokyo’s leading international law offices at the time. From 1984 to 1986, he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle, Washington, and then practiced in Seattle for five years as a corporate attorney, representing numerous Japanese clients. Professor Levin also earned an LL.M. from the University of Washington’s Asian Law Program (Japanese Law Emphasis) in 1990.
Katherine "Grace" Mugrader
APLPJ Co-EIC, Volume 18
Keone Nakoa
Keone Nakoa is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs at the United States Department of the Interior. Keone has previously worked in the Office of Hawaiian Affairs where he worked with Congress and federal agencies as the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief. Keone previously served as speechwriter for the late Senator Daniel Akaka, clerk for the Chief Judge of the Hawai‘i Intermediate Court of Appeals and as a lawyer at a private firm in Honolulu. He holds J.D. and MBA degrees from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology from Harvard University.
APLPJ Staff Editor, Volume 16
