Happy New Year
Dear Hastings Community, New Year’s is a time of reflection and resolution. Since becoming Chancellor and Dean, I have taken the opportunity of each new…
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Chancellor and Dean Faigman: We’re Excited to Kick Off the New Academic Year
UC Hastings Law Chancellor and Dean David L. Faigman sent the following message today to the campus community: Dear UC Hastings Community, Welcome, and welcome…
UC Hastings Mourns Passing of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi ’85
UC Hastings College of the Law Chancellor and Dean David Faigman issued the following message on the passing of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi…
Message from Dean Faigman: CA July Bar Results
Dear UC Hastings Community, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am writing with news and a few thoughts about the California Bar exam…
Message from Dean Faigman: On the passing of Professor Geoff Hazard
“A deeply inspiring teacher, a mentor to many generations of students and faculty, an enormously influential scholar, and a dear friend to so many of us.”
Building UC Hastings
Chancellor & Dean David Faigman is overseeing an unprecedented campus transformation.
Message from Dean Faigman: Charlottesville
Now is not the time to remain silent.
Announcing New Academic Dean Morris Ratner
Highly regarded scholar, educator, and mentor explains his goals of supporting the school while exploring opportunities for change.
Message from Dean Faigman: Celebrating Justice on the 4th
As we head into the Fourth of July weekend, a time when we celebrate the victory of law over tyranny, it is worth contemplating the role of the modern law school.
Message from Dean Faigman: US News Rankings
While it is an annual rite of spring for deans to celebrate or lament the widely variable swings in rankings from year-to-year, UC Hastings must keep its eyes on what counts. We are doing that.
Statement from Dean Faigman: Deans Letter to California Supreme Court re California Bar Exam
Today a group of 20 deans of ABA-accredited California law schools submitted a letter to the California Supreme Court, calling upon it to “exercise its legal jurisdiction over the California State Bar to adjust its scoring methods to bring them in line with the nation’s at large.”
Statement from Dean Faigman: President Trump’s Executive Order re Travel
The UC Hastings’ seal carries the words fiat justitia — Let Justice Be Done. This motto is not a hollow promise; it is who we are and what we do.