The Hastings Name Change Issue Continues

Hastings

If you're wondering what happened to the plan to change the name of UC Hastings, the law school in San Francisco administered by the Regents, below is the latest. (The school's founder, Serranus Clinton Hastings, was responsible for a massacre of Native Americans. VP Kamala Harris is one of the graduates of UC Hastings.)

Name Change for UC Hastings Law School Gains Momentum

Cheryl Miller, 4-6-22, The Recorder

A key legislative policy committee on Wednesday approved legislation to change the name of University of California, Hastings College of the Law, even as delicate negotiations over what the school’s new name should be occur behind closed doors. As currently written, SB 1288* strips the name of the law school’s founder, California’s first chief justice, Serranus Hastings, and simply refers to the San Francisco campus as College of the Law. The bill’s authors, two senators who are Hastings alumni and a third who represents San Francisco, say the moniker is a placeholder that will change after various parties agree what the new name should be.

Source: https://www.law.com/therecorder/2022/04/06/name-change-for-uc-hastings-law-school-gains-momentum/.

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*SB 1288 is a gut-and-amend bill. It takes another abandoned bill and completely changes it, thus getting around the deadline for submission of bills. You can find it at:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1288.