Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2023, Volume 35, Issue 3
Content
- California's Commitment To Wage Transparency Comes At a Cost To Employers
- Confessions From An Electronic Platform 2022: Appellate Argument
- Disclosure of Litigation Funding Arrangements: Much Ado About Nothing
- Don't Let Your Client's Bequest Be a Lawsuit
- Editor's Foreword
- Fraud As Hyperreality
- From the Section Chair
- Governmental Entity Litigation: the Mirror Dimension
- New Federal Legislation Raises Dueling Experts: What Olean Might Mean For the Future of Class Certification In the Ninth Circuit
- PAST SECTION CHAIRS & EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- Q & A WITH JUDGE VINCE CHHABRIA OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
- SECTION OFFICERS & EDITORIAL BOARD
- Smashing Statues: the Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
- Table of Contents
- The California Supreme Court In Judicial Year 2021-2022: Emerging From the Pandemic
- The Supreme Court's Five Arbitration Decisions
- Working: Conversations With Essential Workers
- The Hastings College of the Law Name Change: the Real Deal About the Bad and the Ugly
THE HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW NAME CHANGE: THE REAL DEAL ABOUT THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Written by Kris Whitten*
On February 1, 2022, the Los Angeles County Bar Association hosted an online panel discussion titled: "Hastings Name Change: The Good, Bad and the Ugly." By signing Assembly Bill (AB) 1936 on September 23, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom has now authorized changing the school’s name, and here is how bad and ugly that really is.
The founding of University of California, Hastings College of the Law was based upon a contract entered into between Serranus Clinton Hastings and the State of California. (See Foltz v. Hoge (1879) 54 Cal. 28, citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) 17 U.S. 518, 668-669 [counsel’s argument in, describing Hastings’s agreement as "a complete contract between Hastings and the State[,] a private eleemosynary perpetual trust . . . ."].)
Hastings left New York in 1834, and in 1837 settled in what later became the Iowa Territory and, in 1846, the State of Iowa. There, he was appointed a justice of the peace, served in the territorial Legislature, as a member of the new State’s first contingent of United States Congressmen, and in 1848 became Iowa’s Chief Justice. He came to California with the Gold Rush, thereafter, amassing a fortune primarily by acquiring and selling land. In late 1849, he was appointed California’s first Chief Justice and in 1851 was elected its third Attorney General.