Hastings College of the Law

University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Motto	Fiat Justitia ("Let justice be done")
Established	1878
School type	Public
Dean	David L. Faigman (Acting Chancellor and Dean)
Location	San Francisco, California, US
Enrollment	930 (approx.)
Faculty	172 (full- and part-time)
USNWR ranking	50 (2016)
Bar pass rate	76% (ABA profile)
Website	www.uchastings.edu
ABA profile	UC Hastings College of Law

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

Founded in 1878 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 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.

Hastings has a unique relationship with the University of California. In 1878, when Supreme Court of California 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. 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."

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