Randall Roth
{{short description|American lawyer}}
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| birth_date = May 14, 1948{{cite news|last=Arakawa|first=Lynda|title=Roth Has 'Why-Can't-We-Do-It' Attitude|url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Dec/29/ln/ln23a.html|access-date=April 1, 2012|newspaper=Honolulu Advertiser|date=December 29, 2002}}
| birth_place = Ellinwood, Kansas{{cite web|last=Skousen|first=Sandi|title=The Five Behind "Broken Trust"|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/1998/02/09/story3.html|publisher=Pacific Business Journal|access-date=March 25, 2012}}
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| known_for = Scholarship In Trusts & Estates
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Randall Roth is a former{{Cite web|url=https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2017/05/10/randy-roth-retires/|title = Community activist Randy Roth will retire from UH law school | University of Hawaiʻi System News}} law professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a trusts and estates expert.{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/02/23/the-descendants-buries-estate-planning-lessons-in-george-clooney-drama/|title=George Clooney Makes Estate Planning Sexy|last=Jacobs|first=Deborah|date=May 25, 2012|newspaper=Forbes|access-date=July 23, 2018}} The Honolulu Star-Bulletin identified him as one of the "100 Who Made A Difference" in the state since statehood,{{cite web|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/10/12/news/story6.html|title=100 Who Made A Difference: Explosive Article Began Estate's Transformation|last=Daysog|first=Rick|publisher=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|access-date=July 23, 2018}} and Honolulu Magazine recognized his work, specifically on Broken Trust, as one of the "50 turning points" in the state's history.{{cite news|url=http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/August-2009/50-Moments-of-Statehood/|title=50 Moments of Statehood: Turning Points That Shaped Hawaii|last=Hill|first=Tiffany|date=August 1, 2009|newspaper=Honolulu Magazine|access-date=2012-03-25}}
Background
Born in Ellinwood, Kansas, Roth graduated with a B.S. in economics and accounting from Regis University in Denver, Colorado in 1970. He later earned his Juris Doctor from University of Denver College of Law in 1974 and his LLM from University of Miami School of Law in 1975.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.hawaii.edu/personnel/roth/randall|title=Randall Roth|publisher=William S. Richardson School of Law|access-date=March 25, 2012}} In 1982, he moved to Hawai{{okina}}i, where he has lived since.
Roth is married to his wife, Susan, and they have four children.
Scholarship
Roth has both written and consulted on legal issues concerning trusts and estates.
In 2011, he was the legal advisor for The Descendants, consulting on such issues.{{cite web|url=http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/02/24/14980-uh-law-professor-tapped-for-land-trust-expertise-in-the-descendants/|title=UH Law Professor Tapped for Land Trust Expertise in 'The Descendants'|last=Kalani|first=Nanea|date=February 24, 2012|publisher=Honolulu Civil Beat|access-date=March 25, 2012}} Starring George Clooney as Matt King, a Honolulu-based lawyer and the sole trustee of a family trust that controls 25,000 acres of pristine land on the island of Kaua'i, the film forces King to confront the realities of balancing the family's long-held interest in protecting the land with selling it to a developer.
=''The Price of Paradise''=
In 1992 and 1993, Roth co-authored a series of best-selling books called The Price of Paradise.{{cite web|url=http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/May-2008/Politics-in-Hawaii-Is-Something-Broken508/|title=Politics In Hawaii? Is Something Broken|last=Roth|first=Randall|date=April 29, 2008|publisher=Honolulu Magazine|access-date=March 25, 2012}} In them, he coined the term "Paradise Tax," a term now widely used to denote the differential in the cost of living in the United States Mainland versus Hawai{{okina}}i.{{cite web|url=http://honoluluweekly.com/cover/2010/07/paradise-no-more/|title=Paradise No More|publisher=Honolulu Weekly|access-date=March 25, 2012}} He attributed the "Paradise Tax" to multiple factors including differences in regulation, land use, land availability, and shipping costs.Peter S. Adler, Joanne Punu, Randall W. Roth and Eric Yamamoto, "What is the paradise tax and what are its implications?" in Randall W. Roth, ed., The Price of Paradise, Volume II, Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1993
=Broken Trust=
: Further Information: Kamehameha Schools Controversies
In 2006, Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust, co-authored by Roth and Samuel Pailthorpe King, a Judge for United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, chronicled the controversies that had enveloped Hawai{{okina}}i's Bishop Estate, one of the nation's largest trusts, estimated to be valued by the Wall Street Journal at nearly $10 billion.{{cite news|url=http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/erosion_of_trust|title=Erosion of Trust|last=Randall|first=Roth|date=August 1, 2017|newspaper=ABA Journal|access-date=March 25, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.foundationnews.org/CME/articles.cfm?ID=31&IssueID=3659|title=Review: Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust|last=Stith|first=Andrea|date=June 1, 2006|newspaper=Foundation News & Commentary|access-date=March 25, 2012}} Established by the Hawaiian Princess, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, in a trust before her death in 1884, the Estate was entrusted with running Kamehameha Schools, a private college preparatory school dedicated to educating Native Hawaiian youth.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12king.html?_r=1|title=Samuel P. King, Judge and Critic of Hawaiian Charity, Dies at 94|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=December 11, 2010|work=New York Times|access-date=March 25, 2012}}
In the best-seller,{{cite web|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/02/26/news/story02.html|title=How grass-roots efforts stopped a 'runaway train'|last=Essoyan|first=Susan|date=February 26, 2006|publisher=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|access-date=March 25, 2012}} he exposed how the Estate had been corrupted by the state's political apparatus and its trustees for their personal use at the expense of Kamehameha; a group of trustees who included, among others, Hawaii Supreme Court justices and prominent politicians; trustees were earning salaries of nearly $950,000 for their work as such.{{cite news|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/08/09/editorial/special.html|title=Making It All Pono A Work In Progress|date=August 9, 2007|newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|access-date=July 23, 2018}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.law.hawaii.edu/personnel/roth/randall Randall Roth]
- [http://www.brokentrustbook.com Broken Trust]
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Category:University of Denver alumni
Category:Regis College (Massachusetts) alumni
Category:American legal scholars