About University of California Hastings College of the Law

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The University of California, Hastings College of the Law (commonly known as UC Hastings Law, UC Hastings, or Hastings), is a public law instructor in San Francisco, California that is affiliated when the University of California system. Founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, UC Hastings was the first law moot of the University of California as well as one of the first be in schools received in California and the Western United States. Although share of the University of California, UC Hastings is not directly governed by the Regents of the University of California. UC Hastings is next one of the few prominent university-affiliated pretense schools in the United States that does not allowance a campus taking into consideration the university’s undergraduates or further postgraduate programs. The law scholarly has an extensive alumni network in the San Francisco Bay Area that includes many general counsels, law definite partners and executives. Some of the school’s adept alumni insert George Roberts a founding believer of the private equity perfect Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Alexander Francis Morrison the founding supporter of the international law unconditional Morrison & Foerster, William H. Orrick the founding aficionado of the international law unmovable Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Todd Machtmes the General Counsel of Salesforce, and the 49th Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris. UC Hastings has wealthy programs in Business Law, Tax Law, Intellectual Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and capably known programs in Civil and Criminal litigation due to its proximity to the divulge and federal courts. UC Hastings announced in 2020 its strategic plan to build an Academic Village which includes a newly build up academic building at 333 Golden Gate Avenue, a 14-story domicile complex bearing in mind 657 units of housing, a fitness middle and restaurants at 198 McAllister, and a sum refurbishment and seismic rearrange to the iconic 28-story Tower at 100 McAllister.

San Francisco (/ˌsæn fɹənˈsɪskoʊ/; Spanish for “Saint Francis”), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a cultural, commercial, and financial middle of Northern California. San Francisco is the 16th most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous in California, with 881,549 residents as of 2019. It covers an Place of very nearly 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north terminate of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind without help four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is share of the 12th-largest metropolitan statistical Place in the United States by population, with 4.7 million people, and the fourth-largest by economic output, with GDP of $592 billion in 2019. With San Jose, it forms the fifth most populous comprehensive statistical Place in the United States, with 9.67 million residents as of 2019. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco combine The City, SF, Frisco and San Fran.

As of 2020, San Francisco has the highest salaries, disposable income, and median home prices in the world at $1.7 million, as without difficulty as the highest median rents. In 2019, San Francisco was the seventh-highest-income county in the United States, with a per capita personal income of $139,405. In the same year, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $203.5 billion, and a GDP per capita of $230,829. The CSA San Francisco shares subsequently San Jose and Oakland was the country’s third-largest urban economy as of 2019, with a GDP of $1.09 trillion. Of the 105 primary statistical areas in the U.S. with higher than 0.5 million residents, this CSA had the highest GDP per capita in 2019, at $112,348. San Francisco was ranked 8th in the world and 2nd in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of September 2020.

San Francisco was founded upon June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain usual the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city upon the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. San Francisco’s status as the West Coast’s largest city peaked along with 1870 and 1900, when approximately 25% of California’s population resided in the city proper. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was speedily rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for utility members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along when the rise of the “beatnik” and “hippie” counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opponent to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and extra factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a middle of objector activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along radical Democratic Party lines.

A popular tourist destination, San Francisco is known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mixture of architecture, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Fisherman’s Wharf, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is along with the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various further companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Gap Inc., Fitbit, Salesforce.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Square, Inc., Dolby, Airbnb, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation and Craigslist. The city, and the surrounding Bay Area, is a global middle of the sciences and arts and is home to a number of theoretical and cultural institutions, such as the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of San Francisco (USF), San Francisco State University (SFSU), the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the SFJAZZ Center, and the California Academy of Sciences.