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Legal Education

Mar. 8, 2022

An alternative option for renaming UC Hastings College of the Law

There is a speedier solution that might be the ticket — one that few will probably embrace but most can live with (aka a good settlement):

Kris Whitten

Retired California deputy attorney gener

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The Daily Journal's March 3 article, "Nixing Hastings name opens new dispute: What to rename the law school," correctly states that "many scholars say Serranus C. Hastings participated in [genocide]." It also quotes UC Hastings College of the Law Chancellor and Dean David Faigman as saying, "it was clear that he was an 'accomplice' in the genocide."

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