Legal Education
Apr. 21, 2022
Constitutionality of proposed Hastings’ name change by California legislators questioned under contract theory
By asking the Legislature to change the College’s name, its Board of Directors is attempting to impair the contract that created the College.
As recounted in several Daily Journal articles, in July of 2017 public media began claiming that Serranus Hastings, founder of University of California, Hastings College of the Law, participated in “genocide” perpetrated on native people. The College investigated and in July of 2020 produced a report that recommended action by the College, but that its name not be changed.
Thus, programs were implemented to provide “restorative justice” fo...
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