C. Keith Wingate, Associate Academic Dean, Professor of Law

Dean Wingate joined the Hastings faculty in 1980 after working as an associate in the Litigation Department of the San Francisco law firm of Morrison & Foerster.  He attended the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana for both his undergraduate and legal education.  While at the University he served on the Undergraduate Student Association Steering Committee, the Illini Union Board, the University Concert and Entertainment Board, and as president of the Black Law Student Association.  In 1980 he was honored as one of the first recipients of the University of Illinois Black Alumni Association "10" Outstanding Persons Award.  He serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond.  His hobbies include watching movies, generally with his wife Gloria, an artist, and reading science fiction. 

Courses Taught: Civil Procedure, Race, Racism, and American Law, Critical Race Theory, Reparations: Domestic and International, Law and the Japanese-American Internment

What I hope you get from a legal education at Hastings is... a much better understanding of how legal rules affect the lives of ordinary people in our society and of how our social, cultural, and political characteristics affect and determine our legal rules.