Dean’s Message

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…

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 College of the Law Chancellor and Dean David Faigman issued the following message on the passing of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi…

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…

“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.”

Chancellor & Dean David Faigman is overseeing an unprecedented campus transformation.

Now is not the time to remain silent.

Highly regarded scholar, educator, and mentor explains his goals of supporting the school while exploring opportunities for change.

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.

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.

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.”