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Legal Education

Jun. 15, 2022

Word interpretation: Hastings and genocide both on the cutting board

Advocates of using the term “genocide” seem to depend on the stark horror depicted in their presentations of the events to keep the reader from realizing that facts necessary for its essential elements are missing.

Kris Whitten

Retired California deputy attorney gener

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As a result of challenges from alumni to changing the College’s name, some of which have been chronicled in this newspaper, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law’s Board of Directors formed a committee of two directors to address a request that its decision to change the name be reconsidered.

At the Board of Directors’ quarterly meeting on June 6, the committee submitted its report to the full Board, with the recommenda...

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