POLITICAL CODE OF CALIFORNIA Part III, Title III, Chapter I, Article VII HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW Sec. 1478. Officers and Their Appointment. The law college founded and established by S. C. Hastings shall forever be known and designated as the Hastings College of Law. Its officers are a dean, registrar, and eight directors. Whenever any vacancy occurs in the board of directors, they must fill the same from the members of the Bar Association of San Francisco or otherwise; but such vacancies must be so filled that one of such directors shall be an heir or representative of said Hastings. The dean and registrar are appointed by the directors. Sec. 1479. Affiliation with the University. Such college is affiliated with the university of the state, and is the law department thereof. Sec. 1480. Granting and Issuing of Diplomas. The faculty of the university must grant, and the president must sign and issue, diplomas to the students of the college. Sec. 1481. Rooms and Halls for Use of Students and Directors. There must be set apart for the use of the students of the college, some room or suitable hall at the University, and the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco is authorized to supply a suitable hall therein for the students and directors. Sec. 1482. The Dean. The dean of the college is ex-officio of the faculty of the university, to be designated as such by the directors of the college. Sec. 1484. Appropriation to be Made. The sum of seven per cent per annum upon one hundred thousand dollars must be appropriated by the state and paid in two semi-annual payments to the directors of the college. Sec. 1485. Purposes of the College. The business of the college is to afford facilities for the acquisition of legal learning in all branches of the law, and to this end it must establish a curriculum of studies and must matriculate students who may reside at the university of the state, as well as students residing in other parts thereof. Sec. 1486. Professorships. Professorships may be established in the name of any founder thereof, who pays to the directors the sum of thirty thousand dollars. Sec. 1486a. Powers and Duties of Directors. All the business of the college must be managed by the directors without compensation. The acting officers, including the dean and registrar, must be appointed and may be removed by the directors. Sec. 1486b. Use of Law Library. The Law Library Association of the city and county of San Francisco must grant to the students the use of its library upon such terms and conditions as it may agree upon with the directors of the college. Sec. 1486c. Payments in Case of Failure of Appropriations, etc. If the state fails to pay to the directors of the college the sum of seven thousand dollars per annum, as stipulated in section fourteen hundred and eighty-four, or if the college ceases to exist, the state must pay to the said Hastings, his heirs or legal representatives, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and all unexpended accumulated interest, unless such failure is caused by mistake or accident, or the omission of the legislature to make the appropriation at any one session. Sec. 1486d. President of Board. The chief justice of the supreme court of the state is president of the board of directors, five of whom constitute a quorum to transact all business. HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW DIRECTORS Hon. Louis W. MYERS, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ex-officio President of the Board.. CHARLES W. SLACK, Esq., Vice-President.. FRANK M. ANGELLOTTI, Esq. WILLIAM B. BOSLEY, Esq. SIDNEY M. EHRMAN, Esq. HOYT D. HASTINGS, Esq.... WARREN OLNEY, Jr., Esq. CHARLES A. SHURTLEFF, Esq. San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco FACULTY WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL, Sc.D., LL.D., President of the University. MAURICE E. HARRISON, A.B., J.D., Professor of Law, Dean. ROBERT W. HARRISON, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law. RICHARD C. HARRISON, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law. ROBERT L. MCWILLIAMS, B.L., J.D., Assistant Professor of Law. MORSE ERSKINE, A.B., Instructor in Law. MILTON NEWMARK, Ph.B., M.L., Lecturer in the Law of Bankruptcy. |