UC Hastings College of the Law, 200 McAllister St. in San Francisco. UC Hastings Board of Directors Votes to Rename School
The board voted to remove Chief Justice Serranus Hastings' name from the law school but stopped short of adopting an indigenous name, which some native leaders said would have honored hundreds of Yuki Indians massacred in the 1850s.
July 27, 2022 at 04:22 PM
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The Board of Directors for University of California, Hastings College of the Law voted to decouple the founder of the school from its name, in recognition of his reported role in financing and ordering the removal of native people that resulted in the genocide of several hundred Yuki Indians in Northeast Mendocino County.
On Wednesday, the school's board of directors unanimously voted to rename the school College of the Law, San Francisco, following the recommendation of a committee charged with considering new names. Following the vote, the legislature will consider legislation that will eliminate the name of Serranus Hastings, California's first chief justice, whom historians have tied to the genocide of Yuki Indians in 1859 and 1860, two decades before he founded the law school.
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