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|name = University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
|established = 1878
|type = [[Public university|Public]] [[law school]]
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|head = David L. Faigman<br/>(Chancellor and Dean)
|city = [[San Francisco]]
|state = [[California]]
|country = United States
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|students = 1,116 (2023)<ref name=USNWR>{{cite magazine | magazine = U.S. News & World Report|title=Best Law Schools: University of California College of the Law, San Francisco | url = https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-california-hastings-college-of-law-03015 | access-date = May 2, 2024 }}</ref>
|faculty = 70 (full-time) 209 (part-time)<ref name=USNWR/>
|ranking = 82nd (tie) (2024)<ref name=USNWR/>
|bar pass rate = 84% (2024 1st time takers)<ref name=barpass>{{cite web |title=University of California College of the Law, San Francisco - 2024 {{!}} Bar Passage |url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/BarPassageOutcomes.aspx |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=[[American Bar Association]] |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref>
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| motto          =  Fiat Justitia<br/>("Let justice be done")
| aba profile    = [https://uclawsf.edu/home/aba-required-disclosures/ ''Standard 509 Report'']
| logo = UC Law San Francisco Logo.svg
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The '''University of California College of the Law, San Francisco''' (abbreviated as '''UC Law SF''' or '''UC Law''') is a [[Public university|public]] [[Law school in the United States|law school]] in [[San Francisco]], California, United States. It was known as the '''University of California, Hastings College of the Law''' (abbreviated as '''UC Hastings''') from 1878 to 2023.
Founded in 1878 by [[Serranus Clinton Hastings]], UC Law SF was the first law school of the [[University of California]] as well as one of the first law schools established in [[California]]. Although part of the [[University of California]], UC Law SF is not directly governed by the [[Regents of the University of California]]. UC Law SF is also one of the few prominent university-affiliated law schools in the United States that does not share a campus with the university's [[Undergraduate education|undergraduates]] or other [[graduate school|postgraduate]] programs.
==History==
===Founding of the law school===
In 1878, Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first [[Chief Justice of California|chief justice of California]], gave $100,000 to be used to create the law school that once bore his name. He arranged for the enactment of a legislative act on March 26, 1878, to create the Hastings College of the Law as a separate legal entity affiliated with the University of California.<ref name="Barnes1">{{cite book |author1-last=Barnes |author1-first=Thomas Garden |title=Hastings College of the Law: The First Century |date=1978 |publisher=University of California Hastings College of the Law Press |location=San Francisco}}</ref>{{rp|pages=44, 71–72}}<ref name="HastingsAct">See [https://books.google.com/books?id=gKk3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA533 Cal. Stats., 22nd sess., 1877–1878, ch. 351, §§ 1-15].</ref> This was apparently intended for compatibility with Section 8 of the university's Organic Act, which authorized the board of regents to affiliate with independent self-sustaining professional colleges.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=44, 71–72}}<ref>See [https://books.google.com/books?id=srpAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA250 Cal. Stats., 17th sess., 1867–1868, ch. 244, § 8].</ref>  Another reason for making the gift in this fashion was that Hastings desired to impose certain conditions on his gift, while "policy and law dictated that a free-gift could not be hedged by power of reversion."<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=81–82}}[[File:Serranus Hastings.jpg|thumb|[[Serranus Clinton Hastings]], founder of Hastings College of the Law]]
According to the Hastings College of the Law's official centennial history, its founder, "whether from arrogance, oversight, ignorance, or a combination of all three, was the author of his own troubles."<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=69}} Although the founder had selected the original Hastings board of directors from among his professional acquaintances, he failed to adequately verify their concurrence with his beliefs that a proper legal education must include a course in [[legal ethics]] and must also be hybridized with elements of a [[liberal arts education]].<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=62–66}} To his horror, it turned out they all believed that the only purpose of a law school was to provide [[vocational education]] in how to [[Practice of law|practice law]].<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=67–68}} This latter belief was shared by the first professor hired, [[John Norton Pomeroy]], who personally taught the vast majority of courses during the law school's early years.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=67–68}} The founder hoped to educate cultured [[intellectual]]s who also happened to be lawyers; the board simply wanted to produce lawyers.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=67–68}} It was impossible to reconcile these fundamentally different visions, and by September 1882, the founder had become estranged from his own handpicked board.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=77–78}} By that point in time, he had come to see the UC Board of Regents as a superior vehicle for infusing liberal arts and legal ethics into his law school, and in March 1883 arranged for another legislative act that purported to transfer the Hastings College of the Law directly to the [[University of California]] and vested responsibility for its governance in the regents.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=78–80}}<ref>See [https://books.google.com/books?id=xwdLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA26 Cal. Stats., 25th sess., 1883, ch. 20, § 1].</ref> This was in facial conflict with the "affiliate" language in Section 8 of the Organic Act, so in March 1885, another act was passed to create a ''pro forma'' board of trustees for the sole purpose of holding title to the law school's assets at arm's length from the regents (but under which the regents would continue to have the right to manage such assets).<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=81–82}}<ref>See [https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ_hm0MRekIC&q=CLVII&pg=RA1-PA203 Cal. Stats., 26th extra sess., 1883-1884, ch. 157, § 1].</ref>
In deference to the 1883 act, the Hastings board of directors ceased to meet.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=80}} But because the regents chose to remain neutral in the long-simmering dispute between board and founder—and did not attempt to exercise any control under the 1883 or 1885 acts—Hastings went through a strange period from September 1882 to April 1885 where it operated with no actual supervision from any governing board.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=80}}
On April 25, 1885, the Hastings board of directors convened to appoint Perrie Kewen as the new registrar, because the previous registrar had died.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=80–85}} At the request of Serranus Clinton Hastings, [[Attorney General of California|Attorney General]] [[Edward C. Marshall]] challenged Kewen's appointment by initiating a proceeding for a writ of ''[[quo warranto]]'' in [[San Francisco County Superior Court]].<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=80–85}} On March 30, 1886, in what became known as ''Kewen's Case'', the [[Supreme Court of California]] upheld Kewen's appointment by declaring the 1883 and 1885 acts to be unconstitutional on the basis of a provision of the 1879 state constitution guaranteeing the legislative independence of the University of California.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=84–85}}<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=3HwWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA215 People v. Kewen]'', 69 Cal. 215, 10 P. 393 (1886).</ref> In other words, the 1879 ratification of the state's second constitution (which remains in effect today) effectively stripped the [[California State Legislature]] of the power to amend preexisting statutes governing the University of California, including the 1878 act.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=84–85}} This was the last time that Serranus Clinton Hastings would try to shape the future of the law school that he had founded; the Hastings College of the Law has maintained its hard-fought independence from the Regents ever since.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=84–85}} The irony of ''Kewen's Case'' is that a constitutional provision intended to protect the University of California was applied in such a way as to prevent the university from taking control of its first law school.<ref name="Barnes1" />{{rp|pages=84–85}}
In contrast, the "Affiliated Colleges" — the medical, dental, nursing, and pharmacy schools in San Francisco — were affiliated with the University of California through written agreements, and not statutes invested with constitutional importance by court decisions.<ref name="StadtmanPage125138">{{cite book |last1=Stadtman |first1=Verne A. |title=The University of California, 1868–1968 |url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad |url-access=registration |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/125 125–138]}}</ref> In the early 20th century, the Affiliated Colleges agreed to voluntarily submit to the regents' governance during the term of UC President [[Benjamin Ide Wheeler]], as the UC Board of Regents had come to recognize the problems inherent in the existence of independent entities that shared the UC [[brand]] but over which the university had no real control.<ref name="StadtmanPage125138" /> While Hastings remained independent, the Affiliated Colleges began to increasingly coordinate with each other and the rest of the UC bureaucracy in Berkeley under the supervision of the president and the regents, and evolved into the health sciences campus known today as the [[University of California, San Francisco]].<ref name="StadtmanPage125138" />
===The part-time law school===
In 1899, the Hastings board of directors declined an invitation from the regents to join the Affiliated Colleges at their new campus at Parnassus Heights.<ref name="Epstein">{{cite book |author1-last=Epstein |author1-first=Sandra P. |title=Law at Berkeley: The History of Boalt Hall |date=1997 |publisher=Institute of Governmental Studies Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-87772-375-3}}</ref>{{rp|pages=33}}  The board was reluctant to move the law school from its traditional [[Civic Center, San Francisco|Civic Center]] location, but this doomed the law school to five more decades of wandering from one temporary site to the next, for a total of 16 different locations between its founding and the opening of a permanent campus in 1953.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=33}}
In 1900, Hastings College of the Law became one of 27 charter members of the [[Association of American Law Schools]] (AALS).<ref>[http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php#e-j AALS Member Schools] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717014748/http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php#e-j |date=July 17, 2012 }}. Retrieved April 30, 2015.</ref>
The Hastings College of the Law was for many years considered the primary law school of the University of California with the purpose of preparing lawyers for the practice of law in the state, whereas the Department of Jurisprudence on the Berkeley campus—which later became the School of Jurisprudence, then Boalt Hall School of Law, and now [[UC Berkeley School of Law|Berkeley Law]]—was intended for the study of law as an academic discipline.  Both schools were launched with one professor assisted by part-time instructors who also happened to be practicing lawyers.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=45}}  During the early 20th century, Berkeley initiated a rapid transition to hiring full-time lecturers and professors to teach the majority of its law courses, but Hastings did not.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=45}}  After Berkeley started to award law degrees in May 1903, Berkeley swiftly eclipsed Hastings and pushed the older law school into a long period of severe decline.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=37, 45, 180}}  Enrollment at Hastings plunged from 100 students in 1912 to only 76 by 1915.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=45}}
During this difficult era, Hastings was widely seen as a homeless, "peripatetic law school" with part-time faculty teaching part-time working students whom for whatever reason were unable to attend a full-time law school program.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=45}}<ref name="Tobriner">{{cite journal |last1=Tobriner |first1=Mathew O. |author1-link=Mathew Tobriner |title=David E. Snodgrass—Builder of Hastings |journal=Hastings Law Journal |date=August 1963 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=8–9 |url=https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1755&context=hastings_law_journal |access-date=January 25, 2024}} "Peripatetic law school" is how Associate Justice Mathew O. Tobriner described Hastings in this tribute to David E. Snodgrass.  Tobriner's article is preceded in the same PDF file by an "In Memoriam" resolution approved by the Hastings board of directors, which expressly noted that the law school was "homeless" before Snodgrass came along.</ref>  With no permanent campus, Hastings could not build its own academic [[law library]], then regarded as an essential component of a law school (before the invention of [[computer-assisted legal research]]), and was forced to rely on the city's public law library. As a result, Hastings was involuntarily ejected from AALS twice, in 1916 and 1927.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=180}}
Even the deanship was a part-time job before 1933.<ref name="Hogan">{{cite journal |last1=Hogan |first1=Edward A. |title=History of the Hastings College of Law |journal=Hastings Law Journal |date=Spring 1953 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=89–100 |url=https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1385&context=hastings_law_journal |access-date=January 29, 2024}}</ref>  This explains how [[Edward Robeson Taylor]] could simultaneously serve as dean of Hastings, dean of a medical college, chairman of the board of trustees of the [[San Francisco Public Library]], poet laureate of San Francisco, and [[Mayor of San Francisco]].<ref name="Hogan" />  His successor, Maurice E. Harrison, simultaneously served as dean of Hastings, regent of the University of California, and partner at a predecessor of the modern Morrison & Foerster law firm (he later co-founded [[Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison]]).<ref name="Hogan" />  It was not until William M. Simmons served as dean from 1925 to 1940 that the deanship was converted to a full-time position.<ref name="Hogan" />
The same statute that affiliated Hastings with the University of California also designated the Hastings College of the Law as the University of California's "law department."<ref>[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=EDC&division=9.&title=3.&part=57.&chapter=3.&article=1. California Education Code Section 92201].</ref> According to the University of California, Los Angeles political science professor J.A.C. Grant, it was believed there could only be one "law department" (i.e., only one official UC law school), which is why the Department of Jurisprudence at Berkeley retained its name even after it began to award law degrees. The University of California, Berkeley did not rename its School of Jurisprudence to a School of Law until the state legislature passed a bill in 1947 authorizing UCLA to create a "school of law." Boalt Hall's newly-hired dean, [[William Lloyd Prosser]], got wind of this in 1948 while visiting UCLA to help plan [[UCLA School of Law|the new law school]] and decided that Berkeley could get away with the same thing.<ref name="Novak">{{cite journal |last1=Novak |first1=Steven J. |title=From the Oral History of J.A.C. Grant |journal=California Legal History |date=2016 |volume=11 |pages=63–96 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/calegh11&div=1&src=home}} Available through [[HeinOnline]]. In this source, Grant mistakenly refers to the will of the founder of Hastings; it is clear from the context that he and Prosser were unaware that the first UC law school was actually launched with an [[inter vivos]] gift.</ref>
===Transformation===
After decades of dreary mediocrity,{{Tone inline|date=July 2024}} the Hastings College of the Law underwent a dramatic transformation{{Tone inline|date=July 2024}} under the leadership of David E. Snodgrass, who served as dean from 1940 to 1963.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=231}}<ref name="Tobriner" />  Snodgrass was a "feisty, outspoken advocate" who fought fiercely as dean to elevate the law school's profile both within California and at the national level.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=231}}  The only reason why Hastings and Berkeley's coldly distant relationship remained collegial during most of his deanship—to the extent that Snodgrass openly supported the name change of the School of Jurisprudence and Prosser agreed to not challenge legislative appropriations for Hastings—was that he and Prosser had been friends since their days as classmates at [[Harvard College]].<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}}
During the [[post–World War II economic expansion]], Snodgrass was able to capitalize on a massive surge of interest in legal careers among [[G.I. Bill]] veterans and [[baby boomers]].<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} With its flexible part-time program, its heavy reliance on part-time instructors who made up the majority of its faculty, its habit of holding classes in any space it could scrounge up (including [[courtroom]]s and the city's public library), and its lenient admission requirement of only two years of college-level work (increased to three in 1950), Hastings could expand very quickly in a way that elitist, bureaucratic Boalt Hall could not.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}}<ref name="Tobriner" />  Enrollment at Hastings exploded from 300 in 1941 to 496 in 1946 and to 917 in 1949.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}}   It was the rapid postwar expansion of Hastings which enabled Boalt Hall to vault into the [[Law school rankings in the United States|top tier of American law schools]] by the 1990s, by relieving political pressure on the law faculty at Berkeley to compromise on their strict standards for student admissions and faculty hiring.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}}
It was Snodgrass who finally found Hastings a permanent home.  He obtained an appropriation of $1.45 million from the state legislature and additional funding in the amount of $300,000 from the UC Board of Regents towards the construction of the law school's first permanent building, which opened on March 26, 1953.<ref name="Tobriner" /> The building was later renamed Snodgrass Hall in honor of the man who had brought it into existence, and was the center of academic life at Hastings for over six decades before its demolition in October 2020.<ref name="FaigmanRemarks">{{cite web |last1=Faigman |first1=David |title=Chancellor and Dean David Faigman on the Groundbreaking at 198 McAllister Street |url=https://www.uchastings.edu/2020/11/13/198-ground-breaking/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127120440/https://www.uchastings.edu/2020/11/13/198-ground-breaking/ |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |website=UC Hastings Law San Francisco |url-status=dead |publisher=University of California, Hastings College of the Law |access-date=February 4, 2024 |date=November 13, 2020}}</ref>
===The 65 Club===
Snodgrass exploited the law school's independence from the University of California and its [[mandatory retirement]] policies to begin the "65 Club", the practice of hiring faculty who had been forced into mandatory retirement at age 65 from [[Ivy League]] and other elite institutions.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=242}}<ref name="Tobriner" /><ref>Charles Hillinger, "Hastings Faculty Is Anything But Retiring," ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', December 14, 1982, D12.</ref>  The very first appointment in 1940 was Orrin Kip McMurray, a Hastings graduate who had served as Boalt Hall's second dean.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=242}}<ref name="Tobriner" />  Other American law schools competed aggressively after World War II to hire young up-and-coming law professors, but by focusing his efforts on hiring elderly ones, Snodgrass was able to bring many distinguished law professors to Hastings for "very reasonable salaries".<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=242}}  This strategy was so successful at bringing high-quality faculty to Hastings that by 1948, 60 percent of the full-time faculty were professors who had retired from other law schools.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=242}}  In the mid-1950s, ''[[Newsweek]]'' published a story in which former [[Harvard Law School]] dean and [[jurist]] [[Roscoe Pound]] praised Hastings: "Indeed, on the whole, I am inclined to think you have the strongest law faculty in the nation."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225312/http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=2278 |title=The Era of The Sixty-Five Club|url=http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=2278|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref>
Despite the difficult history between Berkeley and Hastings, Berkeley supplied more members of the 65 Club than any other law school, including Prosser himself, which led to a more amicable relationship between the two law schools.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=242}}  The 65 Club looked to Berkeley as their model and insisted on raising standards to match their previous institutions.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=242}} By the 1990s, the Hastings student body was "full-time, college educated, and highly qualified".<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=242}}  After laws were enacted to prohibit [[age discrimination in the United States]], however, the 65 Club was gradually phased out, and Hastings hired its last 65 Club professor in 1998.
===Renaming===
Adjunct professor John Briscoe outlined a "Moral Case for Renaming Hastings College of the Law" in a 2017 opinion essay, explaining the school's founder, [[Serranus Clinton Hastings]], "was promoter and financier of Indian-hunting expeditions in the 1850s" and his acquisition of land titles "was facilitated by the massacre of the rightful claimants."<ref name="Fuller">{{cite news |last1=Fuller |first1=Thomas |title=He Unleashed a California Massacre: Should this School be named for him? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/hastings-college-law-native-massacre.html |access-date=28 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=27 October 2021}}</ref><ref name="Briscoe">{{cite news |last1=Briscoe |first1=John |title=The Moral Case for Renaming Hasting College of the Law |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-moral-case-for-renaming-Hastings-College-of-11275565.php |access-date=28 October 2021 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=July 8, 2017}}</ref>
The specific charges against Hastings are that he organized militias led by his employees to massacre the Yuki people who lived on or near his extensive land-holdings in [[Mendocino County]], California, in the late 1850s during the [[California genocide]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lindsay |first1=Brendan C. |title=Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 |date=2012 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |isbn=9780803240216 |page=184}}</ref> Hundreds of Yuki, including women and children, were killed in what are called the [[Round Valley Settler Massacres of 1856–1859]].<ref name="Madley">{{cite journal |last1=Madley |first1=Benjamin |title=California's Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History |journal=Western Historical Quarterly |date=2008 |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=317–322 |doi=10.1093/whq/39.3.303 |jstor=25443732 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25443732 |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref>
In 2020, after studying the matter for three years, a commission established by the school confirmed that its founder had managed a forced labor camp, organized murderous "Indian hunts", and otherwise participated actively in the genocide that killed most of the Native American population of Mendocino County, California. However, the commission – which was led by chancellor David L. Faigman – recommended against a proposal to rename the school "as it could lead to public confusion" and "result in a decline in applications and perhaps a loss of philanthropic and alumni support."<ref name="SFGate1">{{cite news|publisher=SFGate|title=Hastings Law balks at name change despite founder's role in genocide |author=Mike Moffitt|date=December 7, 2020|url=https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/Hastings-Law-Serranus-Hastings-name-change-15751216.php}}</ref> On October 27, 2021, Faigman clarified his position: "There is no effort from me or the college to oppose a name change&nbsp;... Such a change would require action from the California State Legislature and Governor's office... If changing the name is something the College needs to do to bring restorative action and there is legislative action to facilitate that change, I will engage with that process."<ref name="Faigman">{{cite web |last1=Faigman |first1=David L. |title=Addressing the Wrongs of Serranus Hastings |url=https://www.uchastings.edu/2021/10/27/addressing-the-wrongs-of-serranus-hastings/ |website=Hastings College of the Law |date=October 27, 2021 |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref>
In late October 2021 ''[[The New York Times]]'' published an article about S.C. Hastings's involvement in genocide against the Yuki and advocating for a name change.<ref name="Fuller2021">{{cite news |last1=Fuller |first1=Thomas |title=Hastings Law to Change Name Linked to Native Massacres |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/us/hastings-law-name-change.html |access-date=3 November 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 3, 2021}}</ref> The article galvanized alumni, including former San Francisco mayor and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] power broker [[Willie Brown (politician)|Willie Brown]], to support a name change.<ref name="Fuller20211103">{{cite news |last1=Fuller |first1=Thomas |title=Hastings Law to Change Name Linked to Native Massacres |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/us/hastings-law-name-change.html |access-date=December 22, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=November 3, 2021}}</ref> On November 2, 2021, the board of directors for the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, voted unanimously to remove Serranus Clinton Hastings from the name of the law school.<ref name="CNN1">{{citation|author1-last=Iyer|author1-first=Kaanita|date=2021-11-07 <!--13:29 ET-->|title=California law school, named for a man who funded the killing of Native Americans, moves to change its name|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/06/us/uc-hastings-law-name-change-trnd/|website=[[CNN]] website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618035950/https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/06/us/uc-hastings-law-name-change-trnd/|archive-date=2022-06-18|url-status=live|language=en-US|quote=The University of California Hastings College of the Law does not have the power to change the name, which is written in state law. But the board of directors voted unanimously Tuesday to allow the dean to work with the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom to introduce legislation required to do so.}}</ref><ref name="Fuller2021"/> On July 27, 2022, the board of directors voted unanimously to rename the law school the '''University of California College of the Law, San Francisco''' (UC Law SF).<ref name="BoardVote">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-07-27 |title=Chancellor & Dean David Faigman: Board of Directors Votes on New Name for the College |url=https://www.uchastings.edu/2022/07/27/chancellor-dean-david-faigman-board-of-directors-votes-on-new-name-for-the-college/ |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=UC Hastings Law {{!}} San Francisco |language=en-US}}</ref> The name change bill was signed into law by [[Gavin Newsom|Governor Newsom]] on September 23, 2022, and took effect January 1, 2023.<ref name="BoardVote" /><ref name=sfc0923>{{cite news |last=Asimov |first=Nanette |date=September 23, 2022 |title=It's official: UC Hastings is getting a new name that's free of racist ties – and a bit generic |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/It-s-official-UC-Hastings-becomes-UC-Law-SF-on-17463295.php |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925134632/https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/It-s-official-UC-Hastings-becomes-UC-Law-SF-on-17463295.php |archive-date=September 25, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
On October 4, 2022, descendants of Serranus Clinton Hastings filed suit against the UC Law SF directors and the state to block the name change.<ref name="SFChronicle1">{{citation|author1-last=Asimov|author1-first=Nanette|title=Descendants of Serranus Hastings sue state and UC Hastings law school board to keep name, disputing link to racism|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=2022-10-04|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Descendants-of-Serranus-Hastings-sue-state-and-UC-17487289.php|access-date=2022-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005003701/https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Descendants-of-Serranus-Hastings-sue-state-and-UC-17487289.php|archive-date=2022-10-05|url-status=live|language=en-US|quote=Their suit accuses the state and the Hastings directors of breaching the 1878 contract and seeks an injunction to stop the name change.}}</ref> The plaintiffs were represented by lawyers [[Harmeet Dhillon]], Gregory Michael and Dorothy Yamamoto.<ref name="SacramentoBee1">{{citation|author1-last=Sheeler|author1-first=Andrew|title=Serranus Hastings, victim of cancel culture? + Malia Cohen launches big ad buy|website= [[The Sacramento Bee]] website|date=2022-10-05 <!--09:35-->|url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article266802416.html|access-date=2022-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007033048/https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article266802416.html|archive-date=2022-10-07|url-status=live|language=en-US|quote=The plaintiffs are being represented by Dhillon Law Group and Michael Yamamoto, along with the Center for American Liberty. In a press release announcing the lawsuit, the center called Hastings the latest victim of “cancel culture.”}}</ref><ref name="Dhillon1">[https://2fxq9y25b9ub11b2g545smj0-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/20221004_Hastings_Complaint_EF.pdf Civil complaint] in ''[[Hastings College Conservation Committee v. State of California]]'', linked from [https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/descendants-of-serranus-hastings-and-hastings-alumni-sue-california-to-challenge-renaming-of-hastings-law-school/ Dhillon Law Group announcement].</ref> The suit claims that the California act of 1878 contains the terms of a contract with Serranus Hastings.<ref name="SFChronicle2">{{citation|author1-last=Egelko|author1-first=Bob|title=UC Hastings' name change spawned a potential $1.7 billion lawsuit. Will it hold up in court?|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=2022-10-11|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UC-Hastings-name-change-17500334.php|access-date=2022-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011133649/https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UC-Hastings-name-change-17500334.php|archive-date=2022-10-11|url-status=live|language=en-US|quote=If Hastings’ family had a contract with the state, as shown in a document from 1878 with signatures from both sides, it might still be a binding agreement that could not be changed by future legislation, said David A. Carrillo, who is executive director of the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and is not involved in the court case.}}</ref> Interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, David Carrillo (a member of the law faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, and not involved in the suit) said that there is a distinction between a signed agreement between Serranus Clinton Hastings and the state (which could be a binding contract that the legislature cannot repudiate by enactment) and a legislative act (which cannot prevent the legislature from later amending or repealing it).<ref name="SFChronicle2" /> The lawsuit was dismissed in February 2024 following a ruling that the 1878 act was not a binding contract.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/lawsuit-over-uc-hastings-name-change-is-tossed-2024-02-07/ Lawsuit over UC Hastings name change is tossed] Reuters</ref><ref>[https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/uc-hastings-lawsuit-tossed-18653802.php Judge tosses potential $1.7B lawsuit challenging removal of Hastings’ name from S.F. law school] San Francisco Chronicle</ref>
==Location==
UC Law SF campus spreads among four main buildings located near San Francisco's Civic Center: 200 McAllister Street houses academic space and administrative offices,<ref name="UCHastingsMasterPlan">Hastings College of the Law. [http://www.uchastings.edu/site_files/building/master_plan_51804.pdf Institutional Master Plan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226013521/http://www.uchastings.edu/site_files/building/master_plan_51804.pdf |date=February 26, 2009 }}. EIP Associates, March 2004.</ref> 333 Golden Gate Avenue contains mainly classrooms and faculty offices, 198 McAllister is a 14-story residence complex with 657 units of housing, and [[100 McAllister Street|100 McAllister]], known casually as "The Tower", contains university office and further student housing,<ref name="StudentGuidebook">[http://www.uchastings.edu/site_files/StudentServices/StudentGuidebook.pdf ''Student Guidebook''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226013522/http://www.uchastings.edu/site_files/StudentServices/StudentGuidebook.pdf |date=February 26, 2009 }}, UC Hastings, Student Services.</ref> as well as the [[Art Deco]] "Sky Room" on the 24th floor.
The campus is within walking distance of the [[Muni Metro]] and [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] [[Civic Center/UN Plaza station]]. Located within a two-block radius of the campus is the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]], the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]], the [[California Supreme Court]], the [[California Courts of Appeal#First District|California Court of Appeal for the First District]], San Francisco Superior Court, [[San Francisco City Hall]], [[United Nations Plaza (San Francisco)|United Nations Plaza]] (and Federal Building Annex), the [[Asian Art Museum of San Francisco]], and the Main Library of the [[San Francisco Public Library]] system.
[[File:Looking West from UC Hastings, City Hall and CA State Courts, San Francisco.jpg|thumb|View west from the 24th floor James Edgar Hervey Skyroom at [[100 McAllister Street]]. Visible buildings include [[San Francisco City Hall]] with its prominent dome, the city's [[Asian Art Museum of San Francisco]] at the left foreground and the [[Supreme Court of California]] on the right.]]
Historically, UC Law SF had operated its own Public Safety Department, but in June 2016, UC Law SF entered into a contract with UCSF under which the [[University of California police departments#UCPD, San Francisco|UCSF Police Department]] assumed responsibility for patrolling the UC Law SF campus.<ref name="uchastings20160622">{{Cite web |date=2016-06-22 |title=UC Hastings Entering Public Safety Partnership with UCSF Police Department |url=https://www.uchastings.edu/2016/06/22/uc-hastings-entering-public-safety-partnership-with-ucsf-police-department/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=UC Hastings College of the Law |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Organization and structure==
UC Law SF is managed by a nine-member board of directors. The UC Law SF's board of directors exists independently of, and is not controlled by, the [[Regents of the University of California]]. Pursuant to California law, eight of the directors are appointed by the governor of California. Pursuant to the UC Law SF constitutive documents, the ninth director must be a direct lineal descendant of UC Law SF founder Serranus Clinton Hastings. The Hastings family member now serving on the board is Claes H. Lewenhaupt.
UC Law SF's detachment from the UC Regents gives it a broad degree of independence in shaping educational and fiscal policies; however, due to a shrinking California education budget, UC Law SF must also compete for limited educational funds against its fellow UC campuses. Despite the apparent competition among the UC law schools, UC Law SF was able to maintain its traditionally high standards without having to decrease class size or raise tuition to higher levels than fellow UC law schools, until the California budget crisis in June 2009, first raised the possibility of slashing $10 million in state funding.
A few days later, however, lawmakers rejected the harsh budget cut, agreeing to cut only $1 million and apparently preventing dramatic tuition hikes.<ref>"Hastings Beats Back Budget Axe," The Recorder, June 5, 2009</ref>
Under California law, if the government ever cuts funding to UC Law SF to below the 19th-century figure of $7,000 a year, the state must return the $100,000, plus interest, to the Hastings family.<ref>California Education Code, 92212, http://law.justia.com/california/codes/edc/92200-92215.html</ref> State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has argued that the rejected $10 million budget cut, in abandoning state financial support for the school, would have allowed the Hastings family to launch an expensive court fight to reclaim the $100,000 plus hefty interest.<ref>{{Cite news |title=California legislators reject cuts to Cal Grants, Hastings law school |newspaper=Sacramento Bee |date=June 6, 2009 |url=http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/2009-06-06-california-legislators-reject-cuts-cal-grants-hastings-law-school |access-date=May 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521031334/http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/2009-06-06-california-legislators-reject-cuts-cal-grants-hastings-law-school |archive-date=May 21, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Academics==
===Admissions===
For the class entering in 2023,  UC Law SF accepted 30.91% of applicants, with 29.54% of those accepted enrolling. The average enrollee had a 160 [[Law School Admissions Test|LSAT]] score and 3.59 undergraduate [[Grading in education#United States|GPA]].<ref>{{cite web |title= 2022 Standard 509 Information Report - UC Law SF |url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/Disclosure509.aspx |website=abarequireddisclosures.org |publisher=[[American Bar Association]] |access-date= December 28, 2023}}</ref>
===Rankings===
{{see also|Law school rankings in the United States}}
''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranks UC Law SF tied at 82nd among law schools in the US and, in 2015, as the most [[Diversity (politics)|diverse]] of the five law schools in the UC system.<ref name=USNWR/><ref>{{cite web | title=America's Best Graduate Schools 2015, Law School Diversity Index | url= http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-school-diversity-rankings | work= U.S. News & World Report | access-date= April 9, 2015}}</ref> In 2022, UC Law SF was ranked 2nd for Asian students, and ranked 22nd for Hispanic students, by ''The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://bluetoad.com/publication/frame.php?i=736259&p=&pn=&ver=html5&view=articleBrowser&article_id=4203117|title=Best Schools for Diversity|newspaper=bluetoad.com|access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>
In 2023, UC Law SF received an "A-" rating by ''The National Jurist'''s ''preLaw'' magazine, and was one of the four top-ranked UC law schools, in the "Best Schools for Law Firm Employment" listing.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://bluetoad.com/publication/frame.php?i=800214&p=34&pn=&ver=html5&view=issueViewer|title=Best Schools for Law Firm Employment|newspaper=bluetoad.com|access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>
In 2023, ''preLaw'' magazine ranked UC Law SF ninth for public interest law and first for criminal defense and prosecution.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://bluetoad.com/publication/frame.php?i=800214&p=26&pn=&ver=html5&view=issueViewer|title=Best Schools for Public Service|newspaper=bluetoad.com|access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>[[File:UCH Roof View.jpg|thumb|View from 333 Golden Gate Avenue roof-deck]]
For 2022-23 UC Law SF had the No.2 [[moot court]] program in the country, and placed first the prior two years, according to ''The National Jurist''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://bluetoad.com/publication/frame.php?i=800214&p=14&pn=&ver=html5&view=issueViewer|title=Moot Court Leaders|newspaper=bluetoad.com|access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref> The Web site "Law School Advocacy" also ranked UC Law SF as the top moot court program in the country in 2021, with Top 5 rankings in each of the previous five years.<ref>{{cite web | title= Law School Advocacy | url= http://lawschooladvocacy.com| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080420204724/http://www.lawschooladvocacy.com/| url-status= dead| archive-date= April 20, 2008| access-date=May 11, 2011}} </ref>
===Degree programs===
[[File:UCHastings-BattleHastings1066.jpg|thumb|The [[Battle of Hastings]] (1066) as depicted on a stained glass window over the main entrance of [[100 McAllister Street]].]]
UC Law SF offers a three-year [[Juris Doctor]] program with concentrated studies available in seven areas: civil litigation, criminal law, international law, public interest law, taxation, family law, and recently, a new concentration in intellectual property law. Most J.D. students follow a traditional three-year plan. During the first year, students take required courses as well as one elective course. In the second and third years, students may take any course or substitute or supplement their courses with judicial externships or internships, judicial clinics, or study abroad. The college also offers a one-year [[LL.M.]] degree in U.S. legal studies for students holding [[law degree]]s from foreign law programs. It is an [[American Bar Association#Accreditation of U.S. law schools since 1923|American Bar Association]] (ABA) accredited law school since 1939.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/by_year_approved.html |title=ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year |work=ABA website |access-date=April 20, 2011}}</ref>
UC Law SF participates in the Concurrent Degree Program with [[UC Santa Cruz]]'s Masters of Science in Applied Economics and Finance. In this 3+3 program, students may concurrently earn a JD from UC Law SF and a master's degree in applied economics and finance from Santa Cruz, by pursuing the two degrees concurrently, eligible students can earn both degrees in less time than it would take to earn them serially.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Francisco|first=UC Hastings Law {{!}} San|title=JD/Masters in Applied Economics and Finance|url=https://www.uchastings.edu/academics/multiple-degrees/jd-masters-applied-econ-and-finance/|access-date=2020-08-12|website=UC Hastings Law {{!}} San Francisco|language=en-US}}</ref> UC Law SF also participates in the Concurrent Degree Program with U.C. Berkeley's Haas Graduate School of Business. Upon completion of a four-year program, the student earns a Berkeley M.B.A. degree and a J.D. degree from UC Law SF College of the Law.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://mba.haas.berkeley.edu/academics/concurrentdegrees.html | title=Concurrent Degree Programs | website=Haas School of Business | publisher=University of California, Berkeley | access-date=December 9, 2014}}</ref>
UC Law SF College of the Law and the [[UCSF School of Medicine]] of the [[University of California, San Francisco]] have commenced a joint degree program, and in 2011 began enrolling their first class of graduate students in the [[Master of Studies in Law]] (MSL) and LL.M. in Law, Science and Health Policy programs. Students have coursework available at each institution for fulfillment of the degrees.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ucconsortium.org/ | title=UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy | publisher=University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Hastings College of the Law | access-date=December 9, 2014}}</ref> This program is a component of the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy.
UC Law SF has a chapter of the [[Order of the Coif]], a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.<ref>[http://www.orderofthecoif.org/COIF-members.htm Order of the Coif member schools]</ref> It joined the [[Association of American Law Schools]] (AALS) as a charter member in 1900; it renewed its membership in 1949.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php#c-d |title=AALS Member Schools |access-date=May 1, 2011 |archive-date=July 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717014748/http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php#c-d |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Post-graduation employment==
According to UC Law SF official 2019 ABA-required disclosures, 70.6% of the Class of 2019 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment (i.e. as attorneys) nine months after graduation, excluding solo-practitioners.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uchastings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019Std509InfoReport.pdf |title=ABA Disclosures}}</ref> UC Law SF [[Law School Transparency]] 2019 under-employment score is 19.7%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2019 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lstreports.com/schools/hastings/ |title=UC Hastings Profile}}</ref>
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==Bar examination passage rates==
For the 2023 Bar Examinations, 72.14% of UC Law SF Law graduates taking the exam for the first time passed. Within two years 93.95% passed.<ref name=barpass/>
==Costs==
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at UC Law SF for the 2024–2025 academic year is $57,215 for California residents and $64,703 for non-residents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tuition & Costs |url=https://www.uclawsf.edu/admissions/jd-cost-of-attendance/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings) |language=en-US}}</ref> UC Law SF does not offer full-tuition scholarships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uchastings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018Std509InfoReport.pdf |title=UC Hastings 509 Report, 2018}}</ref>
==Publications==
===Journals===
The oldest law journal at UC Law SF is the ''[[Hastings Law Journal|UC Law Journal]]'' which was founded in 1949.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hastingslawjournal.org/members/ | title=About Hastings Law Journal | website=Hastings Law Journal | access-date=December 9, 2015}}</ref> The second oldest journal is the ''[[UC Law Constitutional Quarterly]]'', which was founded in 1973. Inaugurated in 1997 to oversee the growing number of publications at UC Law SF, the O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications now manages the publication of the ten UC Law SF journals.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://journals.uchastings.edu/journals/ | title=Journals | website=O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications | publisher=University of California, Hastings College of the Law | access-date=December 9, 2015}}</ref>
* ''[[Hastings Law Journal|UC Law Journal]]''
* ''[[UC Law Constitutional Quarterly]]''
* ''UC Law Communications and Entertainment Law Journal''
* ''UC Law Journal on Gender and Justice''
* ''UC Law International Law Review''
* ''UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice''
* ''UC Law Environmental Journal''
* ''UC Law Science & Technology Journal''
* ''UC Law Business Journal''
* ''UC Law Journal of Crime and Punishment''
===Books===
The O'Brien Center at UC Law SF has published three books:<ref>{{cite web | url=http://journals.uchastings.edu/books/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073620/http://journals.uchastings.edu/books/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 4, 2016 | title=Hastings Books | website=O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications | publisher=University of California, Hastings College of the Law | access-date=December 9, 2015}}</ref>{{dead link|date=July 2024|fix-attempted=yes}}
* ''Forgive Us Our Press Passes'', by [[Daniel Schorr]]
* ''The Traynor Reader: Essays'', by the Honorable [[Roger Traynor]].
* ''Hastings College of the Law – The First Century'', a centennial history of the UC Law SF commissioned by the UC Law SF Board in 1973
==Notable people==
{{Main|List of University of California, Hastings College of the Law people}}The law school has an extensive alumni network in [[California]], particularly the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], that includes general counsels, law firm partners, politicians, judges and corporate executives. Notable alumni include [[Kamala Harris]], the 49th [[Vice President of the United States|vice president of the United States]]; [[George R. Roberts]], a founding member of the private equity firm [[Kohlberg Kravis Roberts]]; Alexander Francis Morrison, the founding member of the international law firm [[Morrison & Foerster]]; William H. Orrick, the founding member of the international law firm [[Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe]]; and Todd Machtmes, the general counsel of [[Salesforce]].[[File:Kamala Harris Vice Presidential Portrait.jpg|thumb|49th [[Vice President of the United States|vice president of the United States]] [[Kamala Harris]]]]
Some of the notable graduates of UC Law SF include:<ref name="hastingsmag">UC Hastings Law, Hastings Magazine - 2019, Gamechangers: A Special Issue Honoring Prominent Alumni Who Have Made Extraordinary Contributions to Their Fields, https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=hastings_magazine</ref>
* [[Marvin Baxter]], former [[California Supreme Court]] associate justice
* [[Dan Berkovitz|Dan M. Berkovitz]], general counsel of the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]
* [[Richard Bryan]], former [[Governor of Nevada]]
* [[Peter Buxtun]] (deceased), epidemiologist and [[Tuskegee Syphilis Study]] whistleblower
* [[Carol Corrigan]], California Supreme Court associate justice
* [[Edward Davila]], judge of the [[U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California]]
* [[Kamala Harris]], [[List of vice presidents of the United States|49th]] [[Vice President of the United States|vice president of the United States]]
* [[Gregg Jarrett]], [[Fox News]] anchor
* [[Wiley Manuel]], former California Supreme Court associate justice (and first African American justice to serve on that court).
* [[Thomas Mesereau]], prominent criminal defense attorney best known for defending [[Michael Jackson]] in his 2005 trial
* [[Lawrence J. O'Neill]], inactive [[Senior status|senior]] judge of the [[U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California]]
* [[Chip Pashayan]], former U.S. Congressman
* [[Jackie Speier]], former U.S. Congresswoman
* [[J. Christopher Stevens]] (deceased), U.S. Ambassador to Libya (during 2012)
* [[Richard Thalheimer]], founder of [[The Sharper Image]] (in business 1977 - closed in 2008)
==See also==
*{{Portal-inline|San Francisco Bay Area}}
* ''[[Christian Legal Society v. Martinez]]'', a 2010 [[U.S. Supreme Court]] case, arose from events at UC Law SF in 2003.
==References==
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==Further reading==
* Barnes, Thomas Garden (1978). ''[https://repository.uchastings.edu/faculty_books/1/ Hastings College of the Law: The First Century]''. San Francisco: University of California Hastings College of the Law Press.
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