Services will be held Jan. 14 at the East-West Center for University of Hawaii law professor Jon Markham Van Dyke, 68, who died Nov. 29 while attending a conference in North Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. at the Imin Center at the East-West Center. The service will begin at 11:30 a.m.
Donations to the Jon Van Dyke Fund at the William S. Richardson School of Law may be made at www.uhfoundation.org/jonvandyke or by mailing checks made payable to "UH Foundation – Jon Van Dyke Fund" to Director of Development, William S. Richardson School of Law, 2515 Dole St., Honolulu, HI 96822. Net proceeds, if sufficient, will be used to establish the Jon Van Dyke Institute for International Law and Justice and support programs, visiting scholars, dignitaries and practitioners in residence, faculty and students.
Van Dyke was born in Washington, D.C., in 1943. He was a leading Hawaii legal scholar and practitioner in international, human rights, environmental, ocean and constitutional law.
Van Dyke joined the UH law school in 1976 and was one of the longest-serving members of the faculty. He previously taught at the Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco; and at the Catholic University Law School, Washington, D.C.
He is survived by his wife Sherry P. Broder, sons Jesse and Eric Broder Van Dyke, daughter Michelle Broder Van Dyke, brother Stuart Hope Van Dyke and sister Jan Van Dyke.