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===Post-graduation employment===
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According to the law professor blog, ''The Faculty Lounge'', based on 2012 ABA data, only 46.3% of graduates obtained full-time, long term, bar admission required positions (i.e., jobs as lawyers), 9 months after graduation, ranking 151st out of 197 law schools.<ref>Rosin, Gary. "Full Rankings: Bar Admission Required, Full-Time, Long Term", The Faculty Lounge, March 30, 2013. Retrieved on February 24, 2014, http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2013/03/-full-rankings-bar-admission-required-full-time-long-term.html. -- For the latest Employment Summary Reports from the American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education, see http://employmentsummary.abaquestionnaire.org/</ref>

Within nine months of graduation, 46.3% (205 of 443) of the graduating class of 2012 had found full-time, long-term employment requiring passage of the bar exam; 64.6% (286 of 443) had found employment requiring bar passage, including both part- and full-time as well as short- and long-term employment; and 21.4% (95 of 443) were classified as unemployed and seeking employment.<ref>http://www.uchastings.edu/career-office/docs/EmploymentSummary2012.pdf</ref>
Within nine months of graduation, 46.3% (205 of 443) of the graduating class of 2012 had found full-time, long-term employment requiring passage of the bar exam; 64.6% (286 of 443) had found employment requiring bar passage, including both part- and full-time as well as short- and long-term employment; and 21.4% (95 of 443) were classified as unemployed and seeking employment.<ref>http://www.uchastings.edu/career-office/docs/EmploymentSummary2012.pdf</ref>


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University of California,
Hastings College of the Law
File:Hastings seal.png
Established1878[1]
School typePublic
DeanFrank H. Wu
LocationSan Francisco, California, US
Enrollment1,250 (approx.)[1]
Faculty172 (full- and part-time)[1]
USNWR ranking44 (2012)[1]
Bar pass rate85% (ABA profile)
Websitewww.uchastings.edu
ABA profileUC Hastings College of Law

The University of California's Hastings College of the Law (UC Hastings or Hastings) is a top tier public law school in San Francisco, California, located in the Civic Center neighborhood.

Founded in 1878[1] by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of California, it was the first law school of the University of California and was one of the first law schools established in the Western United States. It is the oldest law school on the West Coast. It is also one of the few university-affiliated law schools in the United States that does not share its campus with undergraduates or other graduate programs.

History

Serranus Clinton Hastings, founder of UC Hastings

Hastings has a unique relationship with the University of California. In 1878, when Justice Serranus Clinton Hastings gave $100,000 to the University of California to start the law school bearing his name, he imposed two conditions: the school must remain in San Francisco near the courts; and it could not be governed by the Regents of the University of California. Thus the school's leader (who holds the dual titles of chancellor and dean) must obtain funds directly from the California State Legislature, unlike other UC institutions, which receive money from the Regents.[2] In a commencement address, Hastings called his school "a temple of law and intellect, which shall never perish, until, in the lapse of time, civilization shall cease, and this fair portion of our country shall be destroyed or become a desert." Hastings College of the Law was for many years considered the primary law school of the University of California with the purpose of preparing lawyers for the practice of law in the state, whereas the Department of Legal Jurisprudence on the Berkeley campus, which later became Boalt Hall of Law (now styled Berkeley Law), was intended for the study of law as an academic discipline.

In the 1960s, Hastings began the "65 Club," the practice of hiring faculty who had been forced into mandatory retirement at age 65 from Ivy League and other élite institutions.[3] After the passage of age discrimination laws, however, the "65 Club" slowly phased out, and Hastings hired its last "65 Club" professor in 1998. In the mid-1950s, Newsweek published a story where then Harvard Law School dean and jurist Roscoe Pound declared, referring to UC Hastings: "Indeed, on the whole, I am inclined to think you have the strongest law faculty in the nation."[4]

In the March 14, 2013 issue of Forbes Magazine, Hastings was ranked number twenty on the list of "Law Schools Whose Grads Earn The Biggest Paychecks".[5]

Location

100 McAllister Street, view from the west, off Golden Gate Avenue
View west from the 24th floor James Edgar Hervey Skyroom at 100 McAllister Street. Visible buildings include San Francisco City Hall with its prominent dome, the city's Asian Art Museum of San Francisco at the left foreground and the Supreme Court of California on the right

UC Hastings campus spreads among three main buildings located near San Francisco's Civic Center: 200 McAllister Street houses academic space and administrative offices,[6] 198 McAllister contains mainly classrooms and faculty offices, and 100 McAllister (known casually as "The Tower") is student housing[7]

The campus is within walking distance of the Muni Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit Civic Center/UN Plaza Station. UC Hastings is commonly but affectionately derided by students and alums as being located in the ugliest corner of the most beautiful city in the world. Indeed, the school has been referred to in jest as "UC Tenderloin."

Located within a two-block radius of the campus is the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the California Supreme Court, the California Court of Appeal for the First District, San Francisco Superior Court, San Francisco City Hall, United Nations Plaza (and Federal Building Annex), the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the Main Library of the San Francisco Public Library system. The heavy concentration of public buildings within the Civic Center, as well as the high crime rate, result in heavy police presence, and high security, around UC Hastings.

Organization and structure

UC Hastings is controlled by a nine-member Board of Directors. The UC Hastings Board of Directors exists independently of, and is not controlled by, the Regents of the University of California. Pursuant to California law, eight of the directors are appointed by the Governor of California. Pursuant to the UC Hastings constitutive documents, the ninth director must be a direct lineal descendant of UC Hastings founder Clinton Serranus Hastings. The Hastings family member now serving on the board is Claes H. Lewenhaupt.

UC Hastings' detachment from the UC Regents gives it a broad degree of independence in shaping educational and fiscal policies; however, due to a shrinking California education budget, Hastings must also compete for limited educational funds against its fellow UC campuses. Despite the apparent competition among the UC law schools, Hastings was able to maintain its traditionally high standards without having to decrease class size or raise tuition prices to higher levels than fellow UC law schools, until the California budget crisis in June 2009, first raised the possibility of slashing $10 million in state funding.

A few days later, however, lawmakers rejected the harsh budget cut, agreeing to cut only $1 million and apparently preventing dramatic tuition hikes.[8]

Under California law, if the government ever cuts funding to Hastings to below the 19th century figure of $7,000 a year, the state must return the $100,000, plus interest, to the Hastings family.[9] State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has argued that the rejected $10 million budget cut, in abandoning state financial support for the school, would have allowed the Hastings family to launch an expensive court fight to reclaim the $100,000 plus hefty interest.[10]

Academics

Hastings offers a three-year Juris Doctor program with concentrated studies available in seven areas: civil litigation, criminal law, international law, public interest law, taxation, family law, and recently, a new concentration in intellectual property law. Most J.D. students follow a traditional three-year plan. During the first year, students take required courses as well as one elective course. In the second and third years, students may take any course or substitute or supplement their courses with judicial externships or internships, judicial clinics, or study abroad. The college also offers a one-year LL.M. degree in U.S. legal studies for students holding law degrees from foreign law programs. It is an American Bar Association (ABA) approved law school since 1939.[11]

UC Hastings College of the Law and UCSF Medical School have commenced a joint degree program, and in 2011 will begin enrolling their first class of graduate students in the Master of Studies in Law (MSL) and LL.M. in Law, Science and Health Policy programs. Students will have coursework available at each institution for fulfillment of the degrees.[12] This program is a component of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy.

Hastings has a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.[13] It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) as a charter member in 1900; it renewed its membership in 1949.[14]

Rankings

See also: Law school rankings in the United States

U.S. News & World Report ranks Hastings 44th among top law schools in the US and as the most diverse of the four U.S. News & World Report ranked law schools in the UC system.[1][15] It was listed with a "B+" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.[16] UC Hastings also has the largest student body and student/faculty ratio of the UC schools.[17]

In January 2011, UC Hastings was given a "B" in the "Best Public Interest Law Schools" listing by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.[18]

In 2009, Super Lawyers magazine ranked UC Hastings 11th in terms of law schools that produced the most "Super Lawyers".[19]

According to Brian Leiter's law school rankings, Hastings ranks 27th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty, on par with USC.[20] In terms of student quality, Hastings ranks 33rd in the nation by average LSAT score.[21]

According to the Web site "Law School Advocacy," UC Hastings had the No. 1 Moot Court program in the country in 2011, with Top 5 rankings in each of the last five years.[22]

A 2013 article in Forbes Magazine ranks Hastings 20th among 'The 25 Law Schools Whose Grads Earn The Most'. [23]

Bar passage rates

Based on a 2001-2007 six year average, 80.8% of Hastings Law graduates passed the California State Bar.[24]

Post-graduation employment

According to the law professor blog, The Faculty Lounge, based on 2012 ABA data, only 46.3% of graduates obtained full-time, long term, bar admission required positions (i.e., jobs as lawyers), 9 months after graduation, ranking 151st out of 197 law schools.[25]

Within nine months of graduation, 46.3% (205 of 443) of the graduating class of 2012 had found full-time, long-term employment requiring passage of the bar exam; 64.6% (286 of 443) had found employment requiring bar passage, including both part- and full-time as well as short- and long-term employment; and 21.4% (95 of 443) were classified as unemployed and seeking employment.[26]

Publications

Journals

The oldest law journal at UC Hastings is the Hastings Law Journal, which was founded in 1949.[27] The second oldest journal is the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, which was founded in 1973. Inaugurated in 1997 to oversee the growing number of publications at UC Hastings, the O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications now manages the publication of the nine UC Hastings journals.[28]

Books

The O'Brien Center at UC Hastings has published several books:[29]

  • Forgive Us Our Press Passes, by Daniel Schorr
  • The Traynor Reader: Essays, by the Honorable Roger Traynor.
  • Hastings College of the Law - The First Century, a centennial history of the UC Hastings commissioned by the UC Hastings Board in 1973

Noted people

Alumni

Faculty

The Battle of Hastings (1066) as depicted on a stained glass window over the main entrance of 100 McAllister Street
Current

Some of the current tenured Hastings faculty include:

Former

Some of the notable former faculty include

Sixty-Five Club

Some of the members of the UC Hastings Sixty-Five Club include

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Best Law Schools: University of California (Hastings)". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved April 14, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Donna Domino, “Outgoing Dean Revitalized Troubled Hastings,” San Francisco Daily Journal, 6 April 2006, 1.
  3. ^ Charles Hillinger, "Hastings Faculty Is Anything But Retiring," Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1982, D12.
  4. ^ "The Era of The Sixty-Five Club."
  5. ^ [1].
  6. ^ Hastings College of the Law. Institutional Master Plan. EIP Associates, March 2004.
  7. ^ Student Guidebook, UC Hastings, Student Services.
  8. ^ "Hastings Beats Back Budget Axe," The Recorder, June 5, 2009
  9. ^ California Education Code, 92212, http://law.justia.com/california/codes/edc/92200-92215.html
  10. ^ "California legislators reject cuts to Cal Grants, Hastings law school". Sacramento Bee. June 6, 2009.
  11. ^ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  12. ^ http://www.ucsf-hastingsconsortium.org/
  13. ^ Order of the Coif member schools
  14. ^ AALS Member Schools
  15. ^ "America's Best Graduate Schools 2008, Law School Diversity Index". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
  16. ^ Larsen, Rebecca (March 2011), "Most Diverse Law Schools (Diversity Honor Roll)", The National Jurist, 20 (6), San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines: 30–37
  17. ^ "America's Best Graduate Schools 2008, What are the largest and smallest law schools?". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
  18. ^ Weyenberg, Michelle (January 2011), "Best Law Schools for Public Interest", The National Jurist, 20 (4), San Diego, California: Cypress Magazines: 24–28
  19. ^ 2009 Super Lawyers, U.S. Law School Rankings, http://www.superlawyers.com/toplists/lawschools/united-states/2009/
  20. ^ "Top 35 Law Faculties Based on Scholarly Impact, 2007". Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings. Retrieved 2007-10-21.
  21. ^ "Brian Leiter's Law Schools Ranked by Student (Numerical) Quality, 2008". Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  22. ^ "Law School Advocacy". Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  23. ^ The Law Schools Whose Grads Earn The Biggest Paychecks, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/03/14/the-law-schools-whose-grads-earn-the-biggest-paychecks/
  24. ^ "Internet Legal Research Group: University of California (Hastings) College of Law, 2009 profile". Retrieved April 13, 2011.
  25. ^ Rosin, Gary. "Full Rankings: Bar Admission Required, Full-Time, Long Term", The Faculty Lounge, March 30, 2013. Retrieved on February 24, 2014, http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2013/03/-full-rankings-bar-admission-required-full-time-long-term.html. -- For the latest Employment Summary Reports from the American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education, see http://employmentsummary.abaquestionnaire.org/
  26. ^ http://www.uchastings.edu/career-office/docs/EmploymentSummary2012.pdf
  27. ^ Cite needed.
  28. ^ O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications, http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=47
  29. ^ http://www.uchastings.edu/academics/journals/books/index.html
  30. ^ Edwards, Andrew (2010-12-09). "Former SB mayor W.R. "Bob" Holcomb laid to rest". Contra Costa Times. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  31. ^ State Bar of California Membership Records
  32. ^ AsiaJournal Online, "The Voice of FilAmerica, Judge Bernie Clemente Laforteza" March 26 – April 1, 2010
  33. ^ UC Hastings Alum Magazine Notes
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