Constitutional Law,
Legal Education
Mar. 21, 2022
Legislature cannot constitutionally remove 'Hastings' name
Under Article IX, section 9, the Legislature has no authority to rename the college, and that constitutional provision more broadly expresses a requirement that the college be kept free from the politics that prompt the current rush to rename it.
Following an October 28, 2021, front-page New York Times article that erroneously called out Serranus Hastings, the founder of Hastings College of the Law, as a perpetrator of Native American killings in California, the college's board of directors voted to ask the Legislature to change the college's name. Undaunted, on March 17, 2022, the Times' "California Today" section again blames Serranus Hastings for involvement in Native American massacres, without even mentio...
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