JSD (Stanford), LLM (Cambridge), LLB (London)
Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Alina Ng Boyte is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She teaches and writes in the fields of property law, land use, intellectual property, and sustainable development law. Her scholarly work explores the legal and moral dimensions of authorship, governance, and long-term institutional design.

She holds a JSD and JSM from Stanford Law School, an LLM from the University of Cambridge, and an LLB from the University of London. She has held Fulbright and Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarships and the Lieberman Fellowship at Stanford University. She is the author of Copyright and the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts (Edward Elgar, 2011) and Property and Environmental Social Governance (forthcoming, Carolina Academic Press, 2026).

Her current research includes a trilogy of books examining law’s role in sustainability and justice: The Moral Architecture of Law: What Authorship Can Teach Us, Infinite Possibilities in a Finite World, and Sustainable Justice: Law, Governance, and the Promise of the SDGs. As a CISDL Fellow, she contributes to global legal research on sustainable use of natural resources, institutional and governance reform, and the relationship between intellectual property rights and sustainable development.

Her work seeks to reimagine law as a structure of enduring justice—drawing from history, responsive to the present, and worthy of the future.