ABA International - Annual Meeting

To register for the Leadership Retreat, click here.

Registration Fees:
Member - $150
Guest - $100

Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa, 808.661.1234
The cut-off date has passed for rooms at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa. Please call the hotel directly at 808.661.1234 and mention that you will be participating in the ABA Section of International Law's Leadership Retreat to see if there have been any cancellations. In addition, you will find below a list of hotels that are nearby the Hyatt:

Ka'anapali Ali'i 808.667.1400

Ka'anapali Beach Hotel 800.262.8450

Ka'anapali Royal 808.667.7200

Marriott 808.667.1200

Royal Lahaina 808.661.3611

Sheraton 808.661.0031

Westin 808.667.2525

Aston Ka'anapali Shores 808.667.2211

Mahana at Ka'anapali 808.661.8751

The Whaler at Ka'anapali Beach 808.661.4861

Travel Information to Honolulu
The flight from Maui to Honolulu is just 35 minutes but you need to make your reservation now as the planes have limited seating, and this is the most convenient way to get between the islands. Please plan on taking a flight from Maui at 3pm or later on Thursday, August 3rd. Maui’s primary airport is the Kahului Airport. Aloha Airline has flights every hour from Maui to Honolulu – tickets are about $100.00. For more information and to make reservations click here. The Hyatt is about a 45 - 60 minute drive to Kahului Airport. If you need to arrange a shuttle to transport you to the airport, please contact the concierge at the Hyatt at 808-667-4727 and they will be glad to make arrangements for you.

Tuesday, August 1

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Welcome Reception

Wednesday, August 2

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions, Byowitz

8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Describe Schedule, Enix-Ross

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Strategic Plan, Markus

9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Strategic Plan Breakouts

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Wrap up of Strategic Plan Breakouts

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Introduce Committees, Schildhaus

This session focuses on the lifeblood of the Section: its Committees. The format will be highly interactive, loosely in the form of a skit in which everyone will participate. So, please be sure you have read your leadership manual, even if you think you know it all. The second part of the program will be a “brag and rag.” Be prepared to share your experiences and observations, positive and negative. What has worked and why? What has not worked and why not? By the time the retreat ends, you should know what all Section leaders need to know about running committee and about monitoring and contributing to the activities of the Section.

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Committees – Skit, Schildhuas

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Committee Breakouts

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Wrap Up

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Retreat Luau

Thursday, August 3

8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

Welcome, Byowitz

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Policy, Hannay

This session will be presented by Bill Hannay, a prior Chair of the Section and a member of the (big) ABA House of Delegates. Bill is currently running for an at large seat for the ABA Board of Governor. Bill will explain how our Section can and does make and influence policy and how our recommendations move through the Big ABA’s labyrinth of governance. This session will be interactive. After Bill’s introduction, we will break up into several groups which will discuss and hopefully outline policy initiatives which our Section could consider for the 2006 year in light of the Section’s Strategic Plan) and current events. Hopefully, at the end of the session, we will come away with a list of policy initiatives which we can then implement.

9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Policy Breakouts

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Wrap up of Policy Breakouts

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Introduce Game Show, Swartz

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Game Show, Swartz

An interactive game show with audience participation and prizes.

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Game Show Breakouts

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Retreat Wrap Up

Afternoon

Travel to Honolulu for ABA/Section Annual Meeting