Legal Education
May 10, 2022
Clarifying the historical record in the spirit of truth and healing may not remove the Hastings name
UC Hastings College of the Law is seeking to change its name on account of media stories starting in 2017 alleging “genocide” against Native Californians in Mendocino County in the late 1850s perpetrated by the College’s founder, Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has established the Truth and Healing Council by Executive Order N-15-19: “to bear witness to, record, examine existing documentation of, and receive California Native American narratives regarding the historical relationship between the State of California and California Native Americans in order to clarify the historical record of the relationship in the spirit of truth and healing.”
The Council’s goal i...
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