University of California, Hastings College of the Law

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.

UC Hastings College of the Law was founded in 1878 as the first law department of the University of California, and today is one of the top-rated law schools in the United States. Its alumni span the globe and are among the most respected lawyers, judges and business leaders today.  Our faculty are nationally renowned as both teachers and scholars. For more than 125 years, UC Hastings has educated prominent leaders in the judiciary and the bar, in government and business, in education, and in the entertainment industry.  Now, under the innovative leadership of Dean Frank H. Wu and Academic Dean Shauna Marshall, the school is further defining its legacy as the pre-eminent West Coast law school that brings life to the study of law.

Ranking

U.S. News & World Report ranks Hastings 44th among top law schools in the US and as the most diverse of the four U.S. News & World Report ranked law schools in the UC system. It was listed with a "B+" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students. UC Hastings also has the largest student body and student/faculty ratio of the UC schools.

Program

Hastings offers a three year Juris Doctor program with concentrated studies available in seven areas: civil litigation, criminal law, international law, public interest law, taxation, family law, and recently, a new concentration in intellectual property law. Most J.D. students follow a traditional three year plan. During the first year, students take required courses as well as one elective course. In the second and third years, students may take any course or substitute or supplement their courses with judicial externships or internships, judicial clinics, or study abroad. The college also offers a one-year LL.M. degree in U.S. legal studies for students holding law degrees from foreign law programs.

Campus

UC Hastings campus spreads among three main buildings located near San Francisco's Civic Center:

• 200 McAllister Street houses academic space and administrative offices
• 198 McAllister contains mainly classrooms and faculty offices
• 100 McAllister (known casually as "The Tower") is student housing

2012-2013 Catalog

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