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Legal Education

Apr. 4, 2022

Hearing to discuss Hastings name change starts tomorrow

The state Senate has scheduled a hearing on its SB 1288 for April 6, 2022 and will feature former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (both alumni of Hastings College of the Law) speaking in favor of the Bill. There will also be opposition witnesses, one of which will apparently be me.

Kris Whitten

Retired California deputy attorney gener

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The California Assembly has introduced Assembly Bill 1936 to change the name of University of California, Hastings College of the Law which, as amended, states that:

Among the Legislative findings and declarations in that bill are:

(d) The Original Act provided that S.C. Hastings would pay into the State Treasury the sum of $100,000, and that amount is never to be refunded, except as provided in the Original Ac...

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