Legal Education
Feb. 11, 2022
Wait for evidence before rushing to rename Hastings COL
We certainly need healing, but wouldn’t it be prudent to wait until all the evidence is presented and reviewed before publicly pronouncing Serranus Hastings guilty?
In a previous Daily Journal column, I cited California Supreme Court precedents -- People ex rel. Hastings v. Kewen, 69 Cal. 215 (1886), and Foltz v. Hoge, 54 Cal. 28 (1879) -- for the proposition that changing the name of UC Hastings College of the Law would require voter approval. I concede that those decisions do not specifically address a situation where the school's board of directors request the regents of ...
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