Legal Experience:

• Hawaii Legal News, Reporter and Editor-in-Chief, an online publication, 2007
• Judge Corinne K. A. Watanabe, Intermediate Court of Appeals, Honolulu, Hawai‘i Law Clerk, 2006 – 2007.
• Professor Stacy L. Leeds, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas Research Assistant, 2005 - 2006.

Researched and edited papers on property rights and Federal Indian Law.

Drafted chapter about the history of Native Hawaiian customary rights.



• Paul E. Wilson Defender Project, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas Student Director, 2004-2006.

Represented state and federal inmates in post-conviction litigation and prepared state appellate briefs and federal habeas corpus appeals.

• Maui Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Wailuku, Hawai‘i Writer and Researcher, summer 2002

Researched and drafted pamphlets and memoranda on the significance and history of the grand jury in state judicial systems.

Benjamin E. Lowenthal

Education:

University of Kansas School of Law,
  Lawrence, Kansas:
  J.D., May 2006.

• The Brief-Brief, Reporter and Editor, a law school publication (2003-2006).
• Arthur T. Ueoka Scholarship Recipient (2005).
• Kansas University Tuition Graduate Grant (2003-2006).

San Francisco State University,
  San Francisco, California
  B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Journalism,
  May 2003.

• “Urban Paradise Lost,” San Francisco Journalism Project, in-depth article about an environmental lawsuit filed on behalf of an inner city neighborhood, 2003.
• Golden Gate [X]press, Reporter and Editor, a college newspaper (2002-03).
• Freelance Reporter, local newspapers (2000-01)

H. P. Baldwin High School,
  Wailuku, Hawai‘i (1995-1999).

• The Baldwin Courier, Reporter and Editor-In-Chief, a high school newspaper (1998-99).