HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW DIRECTORS Hon. FRANK M. ANGELLOTTI, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ex-officio President of the Board CHARLES W. SLACK, Esq., Vice-President. Hon. W. C. VAN FLEET Hon. WARREN OLNEY, Jr.. A. R. BALDWIN, Esq. WILLIA M B. BOSLEY, Esq. PE RY EVANS, Esq. HOYT D. HASTINGS, Esq. ALEXANDER F. MORRISON, Esq. .San Francisco ..San Francisco San Francisco ...San Francisco ...San Francisco San Francisco ...Berkeley San Francisco San Francisco FACULTY DAVID P. BARROWs, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University. CALENDAR 1920 August 9-16-Registration of students. Applications for admission should be made to the Registrar at or before this time. August 17-Classes begin. November 25-27-Thanksgiving recess. Christmas Recess December 20 to January 1, inclusive. 1921 January 3-Second semester begins. March 23-Charter Day; holiday. May 11-Commencement Day. State legal holidays will be observed. The office of the Dean is at Hastings College of the Law, City Hall, San Francisco. Telephone Market 3600. The office of the Registrar is at Room 928 Pacific Building, San Francisco. Telephone Douglas 1536. HISTORY Hastings College of the Law was created by Act of the Legislature of California, approved March 26, 1878, which provided for its affiliation with the University of California. The College was endowed by Hon. Seranno Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, after whom the school is named. During the early years of the college, Professor John Norton Pomeroy occupied the position of Professor of Municipal Law, and during his incumbeney wrote his work on Equity Jurisprudence. Upon the death of Professor Pomeroy in 1885, Hon. Charles W. Slack was appointed to the faculty and from 1894 until 1899 acted as Professor of Municipal Law and Dean of the Faculty. Between the years 1888 and 1894, Hon. E. W. McKinstry, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, was Professor of Municipal Law. For twenty years beginning with the time of the retirement of Judge Slack from the faculty in 1899, Dr. Edward Robeson Taylor served as Professor of Law and Dean of the College. LOCATION The classrooms and quarters of the College are located on the fourth floor of the San Francisco City Hall, in the same building with the courts and the city and county offices, and on the same floor with the San Francisco Law Library, the most extensive law library on the Pacific The opportunities thus afforded the student in the college are practically unexcelled among city law schools. Coast. PURPOSE The purpose of the College is to furnish systematic and thorough instruction in those branches of our jurisprudence which will fit the student for the practice of the profession of law. With this end in view, the courses which are given are based primarily on the case-book method, the aim being to develop the analytical powers of the student, and his familiarity with the historical development of the law. Especial attention is given to the codes and statutes of California and the decisions of the California courts. MOOT COURT Moot courts, under the direction of members of the faculty, are estabregular mode of instruction. Participation therein is compulsory upon all students. lished as a LECTURES In addition to the regular courses, lectures are delivered from time to time by judges and lawyers upon special topics. Among the lectures delivered during the year 1919-1920 were the following: Hon. John B. Clayberg: "The Genesis and Development of Mining Law in California"; "The Location of a Mining Claim." Hon. Warren Olney, Jr.: "The Qualifications of a Lawyer." Hon. Annette A. Adams: "Criminal Procedure in the Federal Courts." Hon. Rolla B. Watt: "Justices' Court Procedure in California." A course of lectures upon the use of law books was also delivered by Jacob Goldberg, Esq., of the San Francisco bar. LIBRARY FACILITIES In addition to our own library, students are permitted to use the Bar Association Library (during office hours) and the San Francisco Law Library. The San Francisco Law Library is on the same floor in the City Hall as that of this College. It contains more than 46,000 volumes. PRIVILEGES ON GRADUATION Students who complete the prescribed courses receive the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of California. FEES Tuition is free, but a fee of $20 a year is charged to cover incidental expenses. SCHOLARSHIPS The Sheffield Sanborn Scholarships for the year 1920-1921 were awarded to James Edward McClelland and Sara Vida Ross of the class of 1922. PRIZE The Bancroft-Whitney prize, offered for the student of the first-year class having the highest scholarship record, was awarded for the year 1919-1920 to James Edward McClellan. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Every applicant for admission to the College must be shown to be of good moral character and must either (1) be a graduate of the University of California or hold an academic degree from some other approved university; or (2) must have attained junior standing (64 units) in an Academic College of the University of California, after two years' residence, or must have satisfactorily performed equivalent work at some other university or college. Credit will be given for work done at other law schools; but such credit will not be given unless the law school at which the work has been done is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, nor unless the student has completed the amount of preparation required for admission into the College. Members of the bar may, in the discretion of the Dean, be admitted as special students. Further information may be obtained from the Dean or the Registrar. FIRST YEAR Property I. M. E. HARRISON Warren's Cases on Property; Bigelow's Cases on Rights in Land. Three hours a week throughout the year. Tu F S, 9-10. Contracts. Williston's Cases on Contracts. Three hours a week throughout the year. M W F, 8–9. Torts. Pound's Cases on Torts. Two hours a week throughout the year. Tu S, 8-9. Common-Law Pleading. BELL BALLENTINE R. C. HARRISON Cook and Hinton's Cases on Pleading at Common Law, Part I and assigned cases. Two hours a week throughout the year. M W, 9-10. First-year students are required to read the following: Wambaugh: Study of Cases, Book I. Pollock: A First Book in English Jurisprudence. Maitland and Montague: A Sketch of English Legal History. Jenks: A Short History of English Law. Street: Foundations of Legal Liability. Green: Centralization of Norman Justice Under Henry II. Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, vol. I, pp. 111–139. Jenks: Edward I, the English Justinian. Select Essays, vol. I, pp. 139-169. Holdsworth: Influence of Coke on the Development of English Law. Essays in Legal History, edited by Vinogradoff, pp. 297-312. |