UC Law San Francisco Name Change Upheld by State Appeals Court

UC College of the Law, San Francisco can keep its new name after a California appeals court upheld a trial judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by alumni and descendants of Serranus Clinton Hastings.

The suit challenged a state law, effective January 2023, to rename UC Hastings College of the Law and remove the designation of a Board seat for a Hastings descendant. The law followed a school-commissioned study finding Hastings, the state’s first Chief Justice and its third Attorney General, supported and contributed to the mass killings of the Yuki, who are indigenous to Round Valley, Eden Valley, and ...