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Lance D. Collins is the principal attorney of the firm. A Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Hawai'i and a graduate of William S. Richardson School of Law, Lance attended St. Anthony High School before getting his BA and MA from the University of Hawai'i. Before entering law school, Lance taught at the university and worked in grassroots community organizing. He has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers Rising Stars Editions 2013, 2014, and 2015. He received the Onipa'a Lifetime Achievement award from the Sierra Club of Hawai'i in 2016, the Gintong Pamana Award in 2022 from the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce and the 2024 Unsung Hero Award from Hawai'i's Thousand Friends. He is also a Nā Hōkū Hanohano awardee and has received awards for his filmmaking projects.
Recent Publications and Papers:
Lance D. Collins Local knowledge production and publishing in West Maui
2024 American Studies Association Annual Meeting
Lance D. Collins Introduction in Whose Future? Community Planning in West Maui (UH Press, 2024)
Lance D. Collins Asians in the Kingdom of Hawai'i, Before and During the American Occupation
International Negotiating Asian Spatialities Conference
Lance D. Collins Fighting with Monsters: Practical Considerations in the Struggles with Identity
Nakem 2024 International Conference
Lance D. Collins The Torrens System of Land Title Registration, As Established in 1903 in Hawai'i and the Philippines in Historical Investigations in West Maui, Volume 1 (UH Press, 2024)
Lance D. Collins Hawai'i and the Constitutional Revolution on Territorial Acquisition (Treaties, Constitutiones and Arranged Relations)
1898 Project Summit
Lance D. Collins. Judicial Reform and Nature in the Twenty First Century
Philippine Studies Association 2024 National Conference
Lance D. Collins A Tale of Two Quo Warrantos: Judicial Restraint and Political Questions in the (Post)Colonies in Filipinas Journal (Philippine Studies Association, 2023)
Lance D. Collins The Kāwili Project: Re-envisioning cultural exchange and indigenous language revitalization among subalterns in the colonial context
Nakem 2023 International Conference
Lance D. Collins Torn Asunder: Emotional Priority and Care of Other in Asian BL Geographies
2022 International Conference on Geographical Studies
Lance D. Collins Foreword in Ohu ohu na Mauna o 'E eka: Place Names of Maui Komohana by Cody Kapueola akeanui Pata (UH Press, 2022)
Lance D. Collins Fantasy Spaces of Care: Statecraft and the Politics of Sanitary Cordons in Philippine BL Geography
2021 International Conferencec on Geographical Studies
Lance D. Collins Introduction in Thinking about Traffic in West Maui also co-editor with Bianca Isaki. (UH Press, 2021)
Lance D. Collins Numerology, Nationalism and Nostalgia: Christ in the 'Philippines' before the Christians
2021 National Philippine Studies Association Conference
Lance D. Collins Foreword in Water and Power in West Maui by Jonathan Scheuer and Bianca Isaki (UH Press, 2021)
Lance D. Collins Kāwili: Inclusionary Cultural Exchange and Experience in Indigenous Language Revitalization
Nakem 2021 International Conference
Lance D. Collins Introduction in Civil Society in West Maui editor (UH Press, 2021)
Lance D. Collins Election Contests in Hawai'i in Hawaii Bar Journal (January, 2021)
Lance D. Collins Approaching the State: How to Study the Ideas of the Malolos Constitution in Filipinas Journal (Philippine Studies Association, 2020)
Lance D. Collins Civil service and oligarchy: American colonial principles in early 20th century Philippines and Hawai'i in Asian Review (Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2019)
Lance D. Collins Fast-tracking the Luxury Housing Crisis in West Maui in Social Change in West Maui also co-editor with Bianca K. Isaki. (UH Press, 2019)
Ontology of Statecraft: Studying the Ideas of the Malolos Constitution
International Conference on Aguinaldo at 150 (2019)
Writ of Quo Warranto: An American Colonial Legal Form in the Duterte Era
Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (2018)
Lance D. Collins Quo Warranto in Hawai'i in Hawaii Bar Journal (October, 2018)
Ilokano visits the Language Graveyard: The Rise and Fall of a Niche Market
2018 Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies
Kabain: Researching Ilokano (Male) Sexual Identity
2018 National Philippine Studies Association Conference
Civil Service and Oligarchy: American Colonial Principles in Practice in Hawaii and the Philippines
Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia Conference (SEASIA 2017)
Discovering History in the National Language in the Context of Ilokano Language Nationalism
12th International Nakem Conference (2017)
The Torrens Land Registration System Today as Established in 1903 in the Philippines and Hawaii
2017 West Maui Conference of Pacific Peoples and their Environments (2017)
Bakit Tagalog ang Filipino
Pandaigdigang Kongreso sa Araling Filipinas sa Wikang Filipino (2017)
Lance D. Collins Segmentation and Seawalls: Environmental Review of Hawaii's Coastal Highways in the Era of the Anthropocene in 20 Hawaii Bar Journal 89 (2016)
Wahikuli: Crown Lands in the Time of Tourism also co-editor with Bianca K. Isaki. Tourism Impacts West Maui (UH Press, 2016)
"Philippine Legal System as an American Legal Tradition: Comparative Legal History of the Territories of the Philippines and Hawai'i"
Tenth Quadriennal International Conference on Philippine Studies (2016)
"Open Government Law in Hawai'i"
Hawaiian and Environmental Rights Workshop -- West Maui (2015)
Foreward to Sydney Lehua Iaukea Keka'a: The Making and Saving of North Beach West Maui (UH Press, 2014)
"The Descendants: Theory, Nationalism and The Austronesian Diaspora"
Philippine Studies Association 2014 Conference (2014)
Compiler and Indexer. Proceedings of the Charter Commissions of the County of Maui 1961-2012 (NBWMBF, 2010-2013), 17 volumes and subject-matter index
"Ma Lalo o Ka Malu: Conflict, Contradiction, and Customary Law in Native Hawai'i, A Comparative Approach to Indigenous Peoples' Rights"
Philippine Political Science Association Annual Conference (2013)
Foreward to Jon Van Dyke et al. Public access to the Roads and Trails of West Maui (UH Press, 2012)
"Demystifying Philippine Statutory Law: Comparative Thoughts on Democratic Lawmaking in the Twenty-First Century"
Ninth Quadriennal International Conference on Philippine Studies (2012)
Appellate and Other Decisions:
NationStar Mortgage v. Kanahele
October 31, 2024
Intermediate Court of Appeals
CAAP-21-0000390
McGee v. Campaign Spending Commission
August 20, 2024
Intermediate Court of Appeals
154 Hawai'i 417
Sierra Club v. Anaergia Services LLC
May 31, 2024
Intermediate Court of Appeals
154 Hawai'i 398
Ke Kauhulu o Mana v. BLNR
April 30, 2024
Intermediate Court of Appeals
154 Hawai'i 158
Na Papa'i Wawae 'Ula'ula v. DLNR
April 29, 2024
Intermediate Court of Appeals
154 Hawai'i 157
Committee for Responsible Liquor Control v. Maui Liquor Control Commission
April 24, 2024
Intermediate Court of Appeals
154 Hawai'i 111
Winn v. Brady
December 19, 2023
Intermediate Court of Appeals
153 Hhawai'i 433
Academic Labor United v. Board of Regents
April 5, 2023
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
153 Hawai'i 202
In re the Petitions of the Kanaheles
March 15, 2023
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
152 Hawai'i 501
Makila Land Co. v. Kapu
February 14, 2023
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
152 Hawai‘i 164 (memo op)
Ahia v. Lee
January 20, 2023
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
SCEC-22-0000707
Kia'i Wai O Wai'ale'ale v. Department of Water, County of Kauai
September 23, 2022
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
151 Hawai'i 442
Malama Chun v. BLNR
August 11, 2022
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
151 Hawai i 374 (memo op.)
Keep the North Shore Country v. BLNR
February 22, 2022
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
150 Hawai i 486
In re Application of Hawai'i Electric and Light Company
February 4, 2022
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
SCOT-22-0000024
Order Granting Appellee Life of the Land's Motion to Dismiss Appeal for Lack of Appellate Jurisdiction
In the Investigation of KAHEA
September 21, 2021
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
150 Hawai i 43
In re Application of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.
June 29, 2021
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
149 Hawai'i 343
Protect & Preserve Kahoma Ahupua'a Association v. Maui Planning Commission
June 16, 2021
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
149 Hawai'i 304
In re Hawai'i Electric Light Company
May 24, 2021
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
149 Hawai'i 239
Kokua Council for Senior Citizens v. Director of the Department of Health
September 14, 2020
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
Order Denying Petition
Protect & Preserve Kahoma Ahupua'a Association v. Maui Planning Commission
September 14, 2020
Intermediate Court of Appeals
148 Hawai'i 275
Tuttle v. Front Street Apartments Housing Partners,
August 11, 2020
U.S. District Court - District of Hawai'i
478 F. Supp. 3d 1030 (D. Haw. 2020)
In re Application of the Gas Company
June 9, 2020
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
147 Hawai'i 186
Makila Land v. Heirs of Apaa
April 6, 2020
Intermediate Court of Appeals
146 Hawai'i 600
In re Hawaiian Electric and Light Co.
May 10, 2019
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
145 Hawai'i 1
Nationstar Mortgage v. Kanahele
May 1, 2019
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
144 Hawai'i 394
Kokua Council for Seniors v. Director, CAAP-17-0000850
December 24, 2018
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Memorandum Opinion
Baker v. Galuteria,
January 29, 2018
Intermediate Court of Appeals
141 Haw. 468
Hussey v. Say, SCAP-14-0001327
November 17, 2016
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
139 Haw. 181
Green Party of Hawaii et al v. Nago
July 19, 2016
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
138 Haw. 228
Green Party of Hawaii et al v. Nago
December 18, 2015
Intermediate Court of Appeals
137 Haw. 58
Babson v. Nago, Chief Elections Officer No. CAAP-10-000007
September 18, 2014
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Memorandum Opinion
Hussey v. Say
April 23, 2014
Intermediate Court of Appeals
133 Haw. 229
Goo v. Arakawa
February 19, 2014
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
132 Haw. 304
Goo v. Arakawa
September 19, 2013
Intermediate Court of Appeals
130 Haw. 350
Kanahele v. Maui County Council
August 8, 2013
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
130 Haw. 228
Kanahele v. Maui County Council
June 29, 2012
Intermediate Court of Appeals
128 Haw. 198
Prandini v. AOAO Haleakala Shores, No. 28566
August 12, 2011
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Memorandum Opinion
Laird-Woods v. Mateo, No. 30739
October 15, 2010
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
Unpublished Order
Kahoohalahala v. Hiraga, No. 29415
October 30, 2008
Supreme Court of Hawai'i
Unpublished Order
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