The Guild is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. It seeks to unite lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers of American into an organization that functions as an effective political and social force in the service of the people. The organization sponsors a series of lectures by speakers from the local bar and academic community as well as from Pacific Rim countries and the mainland. Other extracurricular activities include a newsletter, a resource directory and support activities for the emerging Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Program at the School of Law. Plans are under way to implement other educational activities including seminars, workshops and exchange programs.
Membership is open to all interested persons.
It also seeks to affirm the Pacific's distinct geopolitical identity with its own unique perspectives. Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity, Richardson Inn Phi Delta Phi is the largest and oldest national legal fraternity. A local inn of the fraternity, formed in the spring of 1979, is named in honor of former Chief Justice William S. Richardson of the Hawai'i Supreme Court. The fraternity is dedicated to the professional and social interests of its members and to service to the School of Law. Membership is open to all men and women law students who have completed their first semester of law school.