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State Bar Resumes Reference to Law School in Attorney Profiles As ‘UC Hastings COL’
By a MetNews Staff Writer
The State Bar of California has un-rewritten history, identifying graduates of the University of California’s law school in San Francisco in accordance with the name of that institution at the time they received their degrees, rather than its new name.
What was Hastings College of Law is now the College of the Law, San Francisco, in light of a repudiation by the school and the Legislature of founder Serranus Clinton Hastings, California’s first chief justice. There is a notion that Hastings commissioned the slaying of Native Americans, though he was exonerated at the time the charge emerged.
The name-change has sparked controversy and litigation. And the State Bar changed references to the school in attorney profiles on its website to the new name.
A State Bar spokesperson said late Monday:
“Our practice has been to include the name of the law school at the time an attorney graduated. We inadvertently did something different in this case, but then corrected it and reverted to our previous practice. In light of this and other similar recent name changes, it is clear we need to revisit past practices and we will take something to this effect to the Board of Trustees this year.”
Below is the attorney profile for Vice President Kamala Harris, with the name of her alma mater changed back to Hastings.
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