Legal Opinion
Lam v. University of Hawai'i
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 11, 1994No. 91-16587PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Professor Maivan Clech Lam, a woman of Vietnamese descent, claims that the University of Hawaii’s Richardson School of Law (“the Law School”) discriminated against her on the basis of her race, sex and national origin both times she applied for the position of Director of the Law School’s Pacific Asian Legal Studies Program. Lam first applied for the directorship during the Law School’s 1987-1988 hiring search (the “first search”) and became a finalist in that search; however, the faculty cancelled the search without hiring anyone. She again applied during the Law…
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