California (San Francisco) -- University of California, Hastings College of the Law -- Accreditation: Full ABA -- Year Founded: 1878

University of California, Hastings College of the Law (UC Hastings or Hastings) is a public law school in San Francisco, California, in the Civic Center neighborhood. Founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of California, it was the first law school of the University of California (UC) state university system and was one of the first law schools established in the Western United States. It is one of the few university-affiliated law schools in the United States that does not share its campus with undergraduates or other graduate programs.

About UC Hastings College of the Law

Location

UC Hastings campus spreads among three main buildings located near San Francisco's Civic Center:

• 200 McAllister Street houses academic space and administrative offices
• 198 McAllister contains mainly classrooms and faculty offices
• 100 McAllister (known casually as "The Tower") is student housing

View west from the 24th floor James Edgar Hervey Skyroom at 100 McAllister Street. Visible buildings include San Francisco City Hall with its prominent dome, the city's Main Library at the left foreground and the Supreme Court of California on the right

Rankings

US News ranks Hastings 39th among top law schools in the US, and is the most diverse of the four law schools in the UC system. It also has the largest student body and student/faculty ratio of the UC schools. "Super Lawyers" magazine recently ranked UC Hastings 11th in terms of law schools that produced the most "Super Lawyers". According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, Hastings ranks 27th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty, on par with USC. In terms of student quality, Hastings ranks 33rd in the nation by average LSAT score.

UC Hastings is 14th in the nation for bar passage rate versus the average passage rate of its venue state. According to the Web site "Law School Advocacy," UC Hastings had the No. 2 Moot Court program in the country in 2007.

In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked Hastings 39th among all U.S. law schools.



A Message from the Dean

Contact

Mailing Address:
UC Hastings College of the Law
200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Hastings Main Telephone: 415.565.4600
Hastings TTY Line: 415.565.4809

Press Contact: Nicole Sadler
Communications Coordinator, 415.581.8818
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All phone numbers listed are area code 415.

All email addresses are @uchastings.edu.