John Barkai

John Barkai has been a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law since 1978 where he teaches evidence, a criminal prosecution clinic, and negotiations and ADR. He was a Detroit criminal trial lawyer and a tenured law professor at Wayne State Law School for 5 years. He has published more than 135 books including evidence handbooks for all 50 states, territories, and affiliated jurisdictions, the federal and military rules of evidence, Asian, Pacific Island, and African countries, Australian states, Canadian provinces, the United Kingdom, plus two cartoon books (on trial evidence and negotiation/ADR), and a book about breaking impasses in negotiations and mediations. He has been Director, and now Co-Director, of the law school's clinical program since 1978, and a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Evidence Committee since 1993. John has BBA, MBA, and JD from the University of Michigan, has received the University of Hawaii Regent's Medal for Excellence in Teaching, and was twice voted the "Professor of the Year." He has made many presentations to groups in Hawaii, nationally, and internationally (American Samoa, Australia, Canada, England, Federated States of Micronesia, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, and Russia) and has run 35 Honolulu marathons.