Carl C. Christensen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Acting Director, Externship Program

Education

  • BS, Oregon State University, 1968
  • PhD, University of Arizona, 1978
  • JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1990
  • LLM, Northwestern Law School of Lewis & Clark College, 2000

Biography

Professor Carl Christensen holds an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Law School. Prior to accepting his current position, Professor Christensen served as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (2001-2005) and as Staff Attorney with the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation (1991-2001). He has also been employed as an associate in the Honolulu law firm Burke, Sakai, McPheeters, Bordner, and Gilardy (1990-1991), as a legislative aid to Hawaiʻi State Representative Bill Pfeil (1986-1987), and as a research zoologist at Honolulu's Bishop Museum (1979 - 1985). Professor Christensen teaches Federal Indian Law, Historic Preservation Law, and Legal Practice.

Selected Publication(s)

Chapters & Articles

  • Historic Preservation Law in Hawai’i, (Melody K. Mackenzie, ed.), in NATIVE HAWAIIAN RIGHTS HANDBOOK (2nd ed.) (in review).
  • [Review of] Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska—Stuart Banner, 27 LAW & HIST. REV. 198 (2009).
  • Subfossil Land Snails from Easter Island, Including Hotumatua anakenana, New Genus and Species (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae), 63 PACIFIC SCIENCE 105 (2009) (with Patrick V. Kirch & David W. Steadman).
  • Biocontrol in Hawaii: A Response to Messing (2007), 40 PROCEEDINGS OF THE HAWAIIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 81 (2008) (with Brenden S. Holland, Kenneth A. Hayes, & Robert H. Cowie).

 

Contact Info

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
William S. Richardson School of Law
2515 Dole Street
Honolulu, HI 96822-2328

Office Hours

Mo & We 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

By Appointment

Room
210
Email
carlcc@hawaii.edu
Phone
(808) 956-7230
Fax
(808) 956-5569
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