Paul M. Sullivan on Van Dyke's Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai'i?

Via Inversecondemnation.com, Paul M. Sullivan reviews Jon M. Van Dyke's Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai'i?

One might grumble that [Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai'i?] lacks the rigorous discipline and balance of a legal treatise or a work of historical scholarship, but that is not the book's purpose, and its real shortcoming is not that it is unscholarly, but that its advocacy does not withstand probing examination. What the book proposes is a giveaway of state and federal public property in a race-concsious manner in order to radically change a 160 year old race-neutral land reform program with which the United States had nothing to do, conducted by a foreign government - the Kingdom of Hawai'i - pursuant to its own validly-enacted laws, which achieved very legitimate objectives for the kingdom and its populace largely through the benevolent supervision of a visionary monarch. Professor Van Dyke's book simply does not show that either the federal government or the state of Hawai'i has any reason or any authority to pursue such and endeavor.

A Very Durable Myth: A Critical Commentary on Jon Van Dyke's Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaii?, 31 U. Haw. L. Rev. 341, 344-45 (2009)