On September 23, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1936, which revises the California Education Code, striking the name “Hastings” from the College of the Law. The bill will be effective January 1, 2023, and the College will then be known as UC College of the Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF for short), the name unanimously recommended by the College’s Board of Directors. The name change is part of a larger restorative justice effort that began in 2017, in recognition of harms done by the school’s founder against the Yuki Indians in the Round Valley and Eden Valley Region. They include offering pro bono legal services to California Native tribes, opening an Indigenous Law Center at the school, and installing a permanent memorial space on the College’s campus, among others.
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