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University of California, Hastings College of the Law

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University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Image:hastings seal.png
Established 1878
School type Public
Dean [TBD]
Location San Francisco, California, USA
Enrollment 1300 (approx.)
Faculty 57 full-time; 96 adjunct
USNWR ranking 39
Bar pass rate 84% (CA)
Annual tuition $32,000
Website: www.uchastings.edu

University of California, Hastings College of the Law is a top-tier law school located in the Civic Center of San Francisco, California.[1] It was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of California, as the first law school of the University of California (UC). The University of California, Hastings College of the Law is also commonly referred to as "UC Hastings" or simply "Hastings." UC Hastings was one of the first law schools in the western United States, and is one of the few university-affiliated law schools in the United States that does not sit on a general university campus. In 2009, US News ranked Hastings 39th among all top US law schools.[1]

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[edit] History

Hastings has a unique relationship with the University of California. In 1878, when Justice Serranus Clinton Hastings gave $100,000 to the University of California to start the law school bearing his name, he imposed two conditions: the school must remain in San Francisco near the courts; and it could not be governed by the Regents of the University of California. Thus the school's leader (who holds the dual titles of Chancellor and Dean) must directly obtain funds from the California Legislature, not the UC Regents, as do other UC chancellors. [2] In a commencement address, Hastings called his school "a temple of law and intellect, which shall never perish, until, in the lapse of time, civilization shall cease, and this fair portion of our country shall be destroyed or become a desert."

In the 1960s, Hastings began the "65 Club," the practice of hiring faculty who had been forced into mandatory retirement at age 65 from Ivy League and other elite institutions.[3] After the passage of age discrimination laws, however, the "65 Club" slowly phased out, and Hastings hired its last "65 Club" professor in 1998. In the mid-1950s, Newsweek Magazine published a story where then Harvard Law School Dean and Prominent Jurist Roscoe Pound declared, referring to UC Hastings: "Indeed, on the whole, I am inclined to think you have the strongest law faculty in the nation."[4]

[edit] Location

View west from the 24th floor James Edgar Hervey Skyroom at 100 McAllister Street. Visible buildings include San Francisco City Hall with its prominent dome, the city's Main Library at the left foreground and the Supreme Court of California on the right

UC Hastings campus spreads among three main buildings located near San Francisco's Civic Center. Academic and administrative functions are centered at 200 McAllister Street,[5] 198 McAllister contains mainly classrooms and faculty offices, and student housing is within 100 McAllister, known casually as "The Tower".[6] The campus is within walking distance from Civic Center BART and MUNI stations. UC Hastings is commonly but affectionately derided by students and alums as being located in the ugliest corner of the most beautiful city in the world. Indeed, the school has been referred to in jest as "UC Tenderloin."

Located within a two-block radius of the campus is the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the California Supreme Court, the California Court of Appeal for the First District, San Francisco Superior Court, San Francisco City Hall, United Nations Plaza (and Federal Building Annex), the San Francisco Asian Arts Museum, and the San Francisco County Public Library. The heavy concentration of public administrative buildings within the Civic Center, as well as the high crime rate, result in heavy police presence, and high security, around UC Hastings.

[edit] Organization and structure

UC Hastings is controlled by a nine-member Board of Directors. The UC Hastings Board of Directors exists independently of, and is not controlled by, the Regents of the University of California. Pursuant to California law, eight of the directors are appointed by the Governor of California. Pursuant to the UC Hastings constitutive documents, the ninth director must be a direct lineal descendant of UC Hastings founder Clinton Serranus Hastings. The Hastings family member now serving on the board is Claes H. Lewenhaupt.

UC Hastings' detachment from the UC Regents gives it a broad degree of independence in shaping educational and fiscal policies; however, due to a shrinking California education budget, Hastings must also compete for limited educational funds against its fellow UCs. Despite the apparent competition between the UC law schools, Hastings was able to maintain its traditionally high standards without having to decrease class size or raise tuition prices to higher levels than fellow UC law schools, until the California budget crisis in June 2009, first raised the possibility of slashing $10 million in state funding.

A few days later, however, lawmakers rejected the harsh budget cut, agreeing to cut only $1 million and apparently preventing dramatic tuition hikes.[7]

Under California law, if the government ever cuts funding to Hastings to below the 19th century figure of $7,000 a year, the state must return the $100,000, plus interest, to the Hastings family.[8] State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has argued that the rejected $10 million budget cut, in abandoning state financial support for the school, would have allowed the Hastings family to launch an expensive court fight to reclaim the $100,000 plus hefty interest. [9]

[edit] Academics

Hastings offers a three-year Juris Doctor program with concentrated studies available in seven areas: civil litigation, criminal law, international law, public interest law, taxation, family law, and recently, a new concentration in intellectual property law. Most J.D. students follow a traditional three-year plan. During the first year, students take required courses as well as one elective course. In the second and third years, students may take any course or substitute or supplement their courses with judicial externships or internships, judicial clinics, or study abroad. The college also offers a one-year LL.M. degree in U.S. legal studies for students holding law degrees from foreign law programs.

[edit] Rankings

US News ranks Hastings 39th among top law schools in the US, and is the most diverse of the four law schools in the UC system.[1][10] It also has the largest student body and student/faculty ratio of the UC schools.[11]

According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, Hastings ranks 27th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty, on par with USC.[12] In terms of student quality, Hastings ranks 38th in the nation by LSAT scores in the 75th percentile.[13]

UC Hastings is 14th in the nation for bar passage rate versus the average passage rate of its venue state.[14]

According to the Web site "Law School Advocacy," UC Hastings had the No. 2 Moot Court program in the country in 2007.[15]

[edit] Publications

Inaugurated in 1997 as the publishing department at UC Hastings, the O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications publishes seven journals on various aspects of the law.[16] The oldest journal out of the eight is the Hastings Law Journal, which was founded in 1949. The O'Brien Center also has published two books: Forgive Us Our Press Passes, by Daniel Schorr and The Traynor Reader: Essays, by the Honorable Roger Traynor.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Current Notable Faculty Members

The Battle of Hastings (1066) as depicted on a stained glass window over the main entrance of 100 McAllister Street

[edit] The Sixty-Five Club: Notable Former Faculty Members

[edit] Hastings in popular culture

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "America's Best Graduate Schools 2008". US News. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/law/search/page+2. Retrieved on 2008-05-22. 
  2. ^ Donna Domino, “Outgoing Dean Revitalized Troubled Hastings,” San Francisco Daily Journal, 6 April 2006, 1.
  3. ^ Charles Hillinger, "Hastings Faculty Is Anything But Retiring," Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1982, D12.
  4. ^ The Era of The Sixty-Five Club, http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=2278
  5. ^ Hastings College of the Law. Institutional Master Plan. EIP Associates, March 2004
  6. ^ UC Hastings. Student Services. Student Guidebook
  7. ^ "Hastings Beats Back Budget Axe," The Recorder, June 5, 2009
  8. ^ California Education Code, 92212, http://law.justia.com/california/codes/edc/92200-92215.html
  9. ^ " California legislators reject cuts to Cal Grants, Hastings law school," Sacramento Bee, June 6, 2009, http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1923746.html
  10. ^ "America's Best Graduate Schools 2008, Law School Diversity Index". US News. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/brief/lawdiv_brief.php. Retrieved on 2007-10-20. 
  11. ^ "America's Best Graduate Schools 2008, What are the largest and smallest law schools?". US News. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/webextras/brief/sb_law_size_brief.php. Retrieved on 2007-10-20. 
  12. ^ "Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact, 2007". Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings. http://www.leiterrankings.com/faculty/2007faculty_impact.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-10-21. 
  13. ^ "Brian Leiter's Law Schools Ranked by Student (Numerical) Quality, 2007". Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings. http://www.leiterrankings.com/students/2007student_quality.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-10-21. 
  14. ^ "Internet Legal Research Group Rankings 2009, School versus State Average". http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/law/index.php/1/desc/SchoolvsBar/2009. 
  15. ^ "Law School Advocacy". http://lawschooladvocacy.com. Retrieved on 2008-10-07. 
  16. ^ O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications, http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=47

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