Professor Kapua Sproat

Kapuaʻala Sproat is a Professor of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi’s William S. Richardson School of Law and the Director of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. Ka Huli Ao is an academic center that promotes education, scholarship, community outreach, and collaboration on issues of law, culture, and justice for Native Hawaiians and other Pacific and Indigenous Peoples. Professor Sproat also co-directs the law school’s Native Hawaiian Rights Clinic and teaches courses in Native Hawaiian and environmental law and legal writing. For years now, Ka Huli Ao’s Clinics have been providing direct legal services to communities across Hawaiʻi seeking to more proactively manage their natural and cultural resources, including those living in the wake of climate disasters such as the 2018 floods on Kauaʻi and 2023 Maui wildfires.