Letters
Aug. 29, 2022
Reasons for Hastings’ name change are undisputable
Merete Rietveld
Senior Counsel
Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley PC
Phone: (213) 542-5700
Email: mrietveld@chwlaw.us
Friday's column advising against U.C. Hastings' name change obliquely references the reason for the renaming: according to the author, it is "negative information about mistreatment of Native Tribes associated with the school's founder." What the author is referring to is the mass murder of Native American men, women and children led by Serranus Hastings. These facts are not in dispute. While the law school community has disagreed about how to respond, the school has ...
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