The Hastings College of the Law reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Hastings College of the Law

The University of California Hastings College of the Law is a law school located in downtown San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of California, as the first law school of the University of California (UC), and it remains affiliated with UC today.

Table of contents

1 Academics 2 Noted Hastings alumni 3 External link

Academics

Hastings offers a three-year Juris Doctor program with concentrated studies available in four areas: civil litigation, international law, public interest law, and taxation. The college also offers a one-year LL.M degree in U.S. legal studies for students holding law degrees from foreign law programs.

Noted Hastings alumni

• Marvin Baxter (1966) - former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
• Ann Veneman (1976) - 27th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
• Jackie Speier (1976) - California State Senator
• Willie L. Brown, Jr (1958) - former Mayor of San Francisco
• Robert Matsui (1966) - U.S. Congressman from the 5th Congressional District, Sacramento
• Terence Hallinan (1964) - San Francisco District Attorney

External link

• UC Hastings College of the Law

This is the "Hastings College of the Law" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.