UC Hastings College of the Law is part of the California University system and is named for Serranus Clinton Hastings, who came to California throughout the Gold Rush.
A report commissioned by the University President found that Hastings paid for and promoted expeditions in the state that caused the death and displacement of hundreds of Yuki Indians, whose land he later stole for himself.
Hastings, who worked in Congress from 1845 to 1847 and was the first Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, gave $100,000 in gold coins to create the law school in 1878.
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Among the school's most famous alums is Vice President Kamala Harris, who graduated in 1989, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
"The effects of Serranus Hastings' crimes against humanity echo in the conditions prevailing today for the descendants of his victims," the report announced.
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University President David Faigman, who commissioned the review, stated that he now thinks this is the right thing to do after reading it and coming at it from a place of ambivalence.
"I absolutely agree with a lot of people's views, that Serranus Hastings, the acts that he committed were absolutely horrific and ought not to be honored," Faigman stated.
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Some alums have claimed that the school moved too slowly to remove Hastings' name. Although, Faigman announced that the college was merely prioritizing other initiatives.
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The school has worked since 2017 to make peace with the Round Valley Indian Tribes, which include the Yuki.
In 2020, Hastings began an Indigenous Law Center to produce a curriculum that could properly serve indigenous legal matters.
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There is a space designated to the Yuki Tribe in the lobby of the building, and the school received a $25,000 grant to record and share the narratives of Yuki elders.
University of California Institutions have been taking stock of some of the names of their buildings in recent years, with UC Berkeley remarkably heading the charge.
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One building removed the name of anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber after finding he committed "immoral and unethical" work on the remains of Native Americans.
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Prominent donor Joe Crotchett, a trial lawyer who paid $5 million for the school's academic village, announced that alumni have been unimpressed with the slow move to remove Hastings's name.
"We cannot have a public institution with the prominence that it has named after someone that committed genocide on Native California Indians," he stated.
Crotchett announced he would pull his name from a law center named after him if they did not change.