HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW DIRECTORS Hon. FRANK M. ANGELLOTTI, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ex officio President of the Board. BENJ. IDE WHEELER, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., L.H.D., President of the Uni versity, President. EDWARD R. TAYLOR, M.D., Professor of Law, Dean LOUIS T. HENGSTLER, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Law. JAMES A. BALLENTINE, A.B., Assistant Professor of Law. RICHARD C. HARRISON, A.B., LL.B., Assistant Professor of Law. CALENDAR AND DIRECTORY The college year begins on the second Monday in August and ends with the college year at Berkeley, and all applications for admission must be made to the Registrar at or before that time. All registrations are to be made during the week beginning with the second Monday of August. There is a recess of two and one-half weeks in December. The classes meet daily at 8, 9, and 10 a.m. The address of the Dean is Underwood Building, San Francisco, where all the work of the College is done. The address of the Registrar is 928 Pacific Building, San Francisco. ADMISSION Every applicant for admission to the College must be shown to be of good moral character and must be either a graduate of the University of California or hold an academic degree from some other approved university or college; or be a graduate of either a public or private school which is accredited by the University of California for admission therein, and be recommended by the principal thereof with a certificate stating that he has completed altogether four years of high school work or its equivalent; and in addition thereto he must have performed the equivalent of the work required for the Junior Certificate in an academic college of the University of California-being the above named high school work and two years of college work is the same as is at present prescribed by the University of California. A detailed statement of the requirements for the Junior Certificate is contained in the Circular of Information concerning the Academic Departments, and may be obtained upon application to the Recorder of the Faculties, University of California, Berkeley, California, or to the Dean. Applicants for admission to the Junior Class must be at least eighteen years of age; to the Middle Class, at least nineteen years of age; to the Senior Class, at least twenty years of age. Applicants for admission to the Middle or Senior classes will be given credit for work done in other law schools; but no credits will be given for such work unless the work has been done at a law school which is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, and unless the work is duly authenticated by the proper authorities of said school. Members of the bar may, in the discretion of the Dean be admitted as special students. The examinations for admission are held at the times and places announced for holding the entrance examinations to the academic colleges of the University at Berkeley. Applicants will not be examined at any other time unless for reasons of the most exceptional urgency. Information concerning the examinations can be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculties of the University of California, Berkeley, California. No applicant for admission to either the Middle Class or Senior Class will be examined for admission at any other time that at the beginning of the college year. Further information can be obtained from the Dean or the Registrar. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION The object of the College is to give such instruction in the principles of our jurisprudence as will furnish preparation for the practice of the profession of law in this country. Particular attention is directed to the history of the law and to the codes and the general statutes of this state. The courses of instruction extend over a period of three years, and are as follows: JUNIOR YEAR Real Property. Professor TAYLOR. In this course formal lectures are given, the students being recommended to read the following: Digby's History of the Law of Real Property; the Second Book of Blackstone's Commentaries; The Sixth Part of Kent's Commentaries; Williams on Real Property; Challis on Real Property; Jenks' Modern Land Law; Spitz on Conditional and Future Interests in Property; Markby's Elements of Law; Holland's Elements of Jurisprudence; Kirchwey's Readings in the Law of Real Property. Two hours a week throughout the year, and three hours as occasion demands. Contracts. Assistant Professor G. W. BELL. A Selection of Cases on Contracts, edited and annoted by Williston. Three hours a week throughout the year. Torts. Assistant Professor BALLENTINE. Ames's and Smith's Cases on Torts, second edition. Assistant Professor R. C. HARRISON. Pleading. Formal lectures, cases and other readings, to be assigned from time to time. References: T. A. Street, Foundations of Legal Liability, vol. III; R. Ross Perry, Common Law Pleadings; book III of Blackstone's Commentaries. Two hours a week throughout the year. Criminal Law. Assistant Professor BALLENTINE. Beale's Cases on Criminal Law, second edition. |
