A key legislative policy committee on Wednesday approved legislation to change the name of University of California, Hastings College of the Law, even as delicate negotiations over what the school’s new name should be occur behind closed doors.

As currently written, SB 1288 strips the name of the law school’s founder, California’s first chief justice, Serranus Hastings, and simply refers to the San Francisco campus as College of the Law. The bill’s authors, two senators who are Hastings alumni and a third who represents San Francisco, say the moniker is a placeholder that will change after various parties agree what the new name should be.

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