Serranus Clinton Hastings (1813 – 1893) was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California and founded the Hastings College of the Law in 1887. 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Justices of the Supreme Court of California (circa. ... Jump to: navigation, search The University of California Hastings College of the Law is a law school located in downtown San Francisco, California. ...
It was founded in 1878 by SerranusClintonHastings, the first Chief Justice of California, as the first law school of the University of California (UC), and it remains affiliated with the University of California today.
UC Hastings is also the first and oldest law school in California, and is one of the few university-affiliated law schools in the United States which does not sit on a general university campus.
When he gave $100,000 to UC to start the law school named after him, Justice Hastings imposed two conditions: (1) the school must be in San Francisco near the courts, and (2) it could not be governed by the Regents of the University of California.