Aharon Barak was the visiting scholar. In 2010, the president of the International Court of Justice Hisashi Owada served as visiting scholar. U.S. Supreme Court Jurist-in-Residence Program Instituted in 1987, with the support of Myron H. Bright, a Senior Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit, Richardson has a U.S. Supreme Court Jurist-In-Residence Program. Biannually, a visiting U.S. Supreme Court Justice presents seminars on current judicial issues as well as teaches classes. Faculty Endowed professorship & faculty chairs Through the University of Hawaii at Manoa Foundation, Richardson has been endowed with several professorships and faculty chairs. Benjamin A. Kudo Professor of Law Dan & Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair In Democratic Ideas Fred T. Korematsu Professorship In Law and Social Justice George J Johnson Visiting Professor Endowment Michael J. Marks Distinguished Professor of Business Law Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Carlsmith Ball Faculty Scholar Fund SBS Holdings Co. Korean Faculty Fund Notable faculty In 2013,The Princeton Review ranked the Richardson faculty as the third "Most Diverse Faculty." And, in 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 3rd of 190 Law Schools for "Smallest Faculty-Student Ratio". The faculty is specialized in an array of legal areas. Current notable faculty: David L. Callies, Scholar of the Law of Real Property Tae-Ung Baik, Former Korean Prisoner of Conscience, Specialist in International Human Rights Law and Korean Law Mari Matsuda, Activist legal scholar, lawyer, first tenured Female Asian-American law professor Randall Roth Richard W. Pollack Aviam Soifer, Constitutional law scholar, former Dean of Boston College Law School Eric Yamamoto, Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice, Former faculty Chris Iijima, Legal scholar, Asian-American civil rights activist, folk singer (Deceased) Jon Van Dyke, Constitutional law scholar, lawyer, activist (Deceased) Students Student body In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 25th of 190 Law Schools for "Most Selective". In addition, Richardson is recognized for its highly diverse student body. In 2013, U.S. News & World Report ranked it 1st of 190 Law Schools for "Diversity Index," while Princeton Review ranked it "Best Environment for Minority Students." Law student pledge Adopted in 2002 as an aspirational reflection of Kānāwai Māmalahoe, all Richardson students recite the William S. Richardson School of Law Law Student Pledge, written by late Professor Chris Iijima, before a Hawaii Supreme Court Justice during a special ceremony before they begin their