Professor Van Dyke joined the faculty in 1976, teaching Constitutional Law, International Law, International Ocean Law, and International Human Rights. He previously taught at the Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco (1971-76), and at the Catholic University Law School, Washington, D.C (1967-69).
He was law clerk for Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court (1969-70) and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California (1970-71). Professor Van Dyke has served as the Law School's Associate Dean (1980-82), as the University's representative on the Executive Board of the Law of the Sea Institute (1982-88), as Director of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace (1988-90), and as an Adjunct Research Associate or Fellow at the East-West Center (1979-91, 2000-present).
He has written six books -- North Vietnam's Strategy for Survival (1972), Jury Selection Procedures: Our Uncertain Commitment to Representative Panels (1977), Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea (co-author 1997), Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai`i? (2008) (which was picked as one of the six most memorable books of 2008 by the Honolulu Advertiser), International Law and Litigation in the U.S. (co-author, 3rd ed. 2009), and Checklists for Searches and Seizures in Public Schools (co-author updated annually) -- and has edited another five books -- Consensus and Confrontation: The United States and the Law of the Sea Convention (1985), International Navigation: Rocks and Shoals Ahead? (1988), Freedom for the Seas in the 21st Century (1993) (which was awarded the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for 1994 by the International Studies Association), Updating International Nuclear Law (2007), and Maritime Boundary Disputes, Settlement Processes, and the Law of the Sea (2009). He has also written numerous articles, focusing in particular on issues related international ocean law, international human rights, international environmental law, and the rights of Native Hawaiians.
In 1987, Professor Van Dyke was recipient of a University of Hawaiʻi Presidential Citation for Excellence in Teaching, and he has been selected Outstanding Professor at the Law School on four occasions.
Professor Van Dyke was a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in Spring 2011.
