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. WILLIAM B. BOSLEY, Esq. San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco PERRY EVANS, Esq. HOYT D. HASTINGS, Esq. ALEXANDER F. MORRISON, Esq. San Francisco .Berkeley San Francisco San Francisco FACULTY MAURICE E. HARRISON, A.B., J.D., Professor of Law, Dean. CALENDAR AND DIRECTORY The college year begins on August 18, 1919, and ends May 12, 1920, 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 first Monday of August. There is a recess of two and a half weeks in December. The classes meet daily at 8, 9, and 10 a.m. The address of the Dean is City Hall, San Francisco. The address of the Registrar is 928 Pacific Building, San Francisco. 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 Honorable 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 incumbency wrote his work on Equity Jurisprudence. Upon the death of Professor Pomeroy in 1885, Honorable Charles William 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, Honorable 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 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 city and county offices, and on the same floor with the San Francisco Law Library, the most extensive law library on the Pacific Coast. The opportunities thus afforded the student in the college are practically unexcelled among city law schools. PURPOSE The purpose of the college is to funish 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, aiming to develop the analytical powers of the student, without neglecting the study of 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 A Moot Court is established as a regular mode of instruction. Attendance is made compulsory upon the members of the Senior class. At the beginning of the college year a calendar of cases to be argued, with counsel assigned, together with the judge who is to sit in the case, is prepared, and the proceedings are governed according to rules established by the Dean. A member of the faculty is present at each session of the court and makes such criticism as is necessary after the student judge has delivered his written opinion. 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. EXPENSES Tuition is free, but a fee of $20 a year is charged to cover incidental expenses. ADMISSION Every applicant for admission to the college must be shown to be of good moral character, and must either be 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 as the same 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 Colleges, 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 class 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. No applicant for admission to either the Middle class or Senior class will be examined for admission at any time other than at the beginning of the college year. Further information can be obtained from the Dean or the Registrar. JUNIOR YEAR Property I Professor MAURICE E. HARRISON. Warren's Cases on Property, and assigned readings in various texts. Three hours a week throughout the year. Contracts. Assistant Professor GoI DEN W. BELL. Williston's Cases on Contracts. Assistant Professor BALLENTINE. Torts. Assistant Professor RICHARD C. HARRISON. Formal lectures. Selected cases from Keen's Cases on Pleading, and other cases to be assigned. References: R. Ross Perry, Common Law Pleading; Volume III of Street's Foundations of Legal Liability; The Third Book of Blackstone's Commentaries. Two hours a week throughout the year. Criminal Law. Assistant Professor BALLENTINE. Warren's Cases on Private Corporations, second edition. Costigan's Cases on Wills; California Code of Civil Procedure, title "Proceedings in Probate Courts," and assigned cases. Two hours a week throughout the year. This course will not be given during the year 1919-1920, the students in the Middle year taking instead the Junior course in Agency. Wambaugh's Cases on Constitutional Law. References: Pomeroy's Constitutional Law; Cooley's Constitutional Limitations; Cooley's Principles of Constitutional Law. Two hours a week throughout the year. Trusts. Case book to be announced later. Two hours a week, second semester. Public Service Companies. Two hours a week, first semester. Mr. McWILLIAMS. This course will not be given during the year 1919-1920. Pleading and Practice. Assistant Professor RICHARD C. HARRISON. California Code of Civil Procedure, and cases to be assigned. Three hours a week throughout the year. NOTE.-During the year 1919-1920 students in the Senior year will take the Middle year course in Equity. |