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HASTINGS COMMUNITY WINTER 2006 IN THI S I SS U E FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 4 1 37 WITH THE ALUMNI HASTINGS AND THE 1906 LETTER TO ALUM Alumni Events EARTHQUAKE Chancellor Mary Kay Kane reports on ac hievements and challenges during the Looking at the College as the State Bar Alumni Reception .. 37 anniversary of the April 17, 1906, 2004-05 year earthquake approac hes Black Alumni Chapter 8 New Student W elcome ... ... 37 Las Vegas Dean's Reception .. 38 6 o C AMPUS Legacy Dinner .. .......... 38 ABBY GI ZBERG ('75): NOT Highlighting Hastings ' Centers ... 8 New Bar Admittee Reception PRACTICI G LAW-BUT STILL Campus Activities ... .. ... .. .. 10 and Holiday Party .......... 39 THE LEGAL PROFESSIO New D ean Selected ........ 10 Class Notes . .... .... .. 40 How a H as tings graduate uses her knowledge of the law in maki ng For the Benefit of the College ... 14 Alumni~ documentary films Let Us Hear from Yo u ........ 53 20 15 ABOUT THE FACUL TV 2004-05 ANNuAL REpORT OF GIFTS Faculty News Donations to H astings from New Faculty at H astings .... 15 July I, 2004, through June 30,2005 Professor Gray Wins RutterAward ...... .. .... 15 Professor Joel Paul Designated Research Chair ............. 15 ON THE COVER Faculty in the News ..... 16 For the first time ever, Hastings alumni in three law firms achieved 100% participation Faculty Notes .. .. ... ...... 16 in the 2004-05 Annual Campaign. (See page 20.) FROM THE DEAN LETTER TO ALUMNI s usual in the level, during 2004-05, Hastin gs faculty members annual report published 37 books, 10 book chapters, 32 book issue of Hastings supplements, 49 law review articles, and 26 articles Community, this column for online journals. Fac ulty members also delivered is a capsule summary of so me 100 speeches and papers and served as modera­ my report to the Board of tors or panelists at 46 meetings and conferences. Directors on our activi­ The achi evements of both our Moot Court and ti es and programs for the Scholarly Publications programs also are worth past academic yea r. In addition, the annual report notin g. In particular, Moot Court had one of its on donations with the honor roll of giving for most successful seasons to date. With more than 2004-05 is presented (on pp. 20- 36). Even in my 225 students tryin g out for Intercollegiate more extensive Board report, it is impossible to Competition teams, H as tings competed in some 17 ca pture all the varied activities and achievements competitions. The result: a Hastings team won the that have occurred. But I hope that sharing just a National Moot Court Championship (for the few of the highlights here will give you some second time in four years) in a fi eld of 188 teams appreciation of the many accomplishments of your fr om more than 150 law schools, and other teams alma mater in 2004-05. brought home six additional National Championships, as well as the Tra ynor State Academic Program Championship. On the Scholarly Publications front, a new journal, Hastings Race and Poverty Law Last year again produced some major changes in Journal, was offiCially recogni zed by the faculty, the fa culty. In particular, Leo Martinez's return to bringing to seven the number of journals under the tea chi ng, after serving as Academic Dean for 12 Hastings umbrella. Three successful journal events years, necessitated an internal Academic Dean also were held, including the Constitutional Law search, which concluded most successfully with the Quarterly symposium on same-sex marriage, the appointment of Clinical Professor Shauna Marshall 1¥omen 's Law Journal symposium on "Women and as Academic Dean, effective July I , 2005. Two Incarceration: Is Justice Gender-Blind7", and the other colleagues decided to retire at the end of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review academic year: Professor Richard Cunningham and second annual Schlesin ger Lecture with UC John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law Berkeley Professor Laura Nader speaking on "Law Joseph Grodin. William Schwarzer, the Thomas E. and the Theory of Lack." (The 2005 Schlesinger Miller Distinguished Professor of Law, retired in Lecture, with Professor Philippe Sands, is high­ January 2005. Further, in March, our long-time lighted on page 13.) colleague Professor Frank Walsh died very suddenl y. Finally, we continue to develop and expand the Each of these men made signifi cant contributions to international programs and opportunities at the the life of the College over the yea rs and will be College. Students in the 2006 LL.M. class have sorely missed by students and faculty alike. come to Hastings from Canada, Chile, China, Two new faculty were added, however. Professor Columbia, India, Italy, Iran, Germany, Korea, Joan Williams of American University accepted our Pakistan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. In the offer of a Distinguished Professorship, bringing with 1.0. program, during 2004-05, 36 Hastings students her to Hastings her nationally acclaimed Center for attended school overseas at our semester- abroad WorkLife Law. Additionally, we were able to hire a programs at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy; the new entry-level professor, Ethan Leib, to teach in University of Copenhagen in Denmark; the the contracts and constitutional law areas. UniverSity of Heidelberg in Germany; Leiden The scholarly and public service record of the University in the Netherlands; the School of fa culty remains one in which we all can take pride. Oriental and African Studies at the University of The breadth and depth of their work is revealed in London; and the International Environmental Law the Faculty Notes listing that appears in each iss ue Department at University College of London. of Hastings Community. On a purely quantitative (continued on page 2) UC Hastings College of th e Law 1 FRO M THE DEAN (colltinued /rom page 1) Support Services Campus Environment On the Admissions front, we had another W ith the completion of the firellife/safety upgrade incredibly busy year, processing so me 6, 188 at McAllister Tower in O ctober 2004, the primary applications fo r the fa ll entering class. Those efforts focus became the plans to vacate our library/fac ul ty were complemented by Financial Aid, which offi ce building (2 00 McAllister) before major awarded grants to 879 students. As a refl ection of renovation began . Adjustments were made to what our in creased fees, the amount of fin ancial aid ro e had been commercial space at the Tower, and mo t substantially from $31 ,381,054 for 2003-04 to of the Student Services departments moved during $37,200, 123 for 2004-05. On a happy note, the spring term. Fac ulty moved back into Sn odgrass however, our cohort default rate for graduates Hall and into rented offices in the federal building remain ed 0.8 percent, an all-time low. at u.N. Plaza. The ori ginal pl ans called for the Career Services reported that our employment renovations to occur in two phases. Those plans fi gures for the Class of 2004 matched those of 2003 were altered last spring when the return of the at 9 months out, at 92.3% (94.4% if graduate public bids on the project caused the College to degrees are included) , and a so mewhat improved conclude that it was necessary to completely vacate at-graduation rate of 60%. The trends identified las t the building to allow construction in one phase year about where graduates tended to go were lasting 15 months. Thus, considerable effort was magnified this year. Approximately 60% went into made to fi gure out how and where to move the priva te practice (down fr om 69% in 2003), 13 % entire library by the start of the 2005- 06 school into government work (up from 9% in 2003), and year, as well as the other offi ces that would have 8.6% into public interest (compared to 5% in remain ed in the building during the ori ginally 2003). Small firms of 50 or fewer attorneys were scheduled phase 1. With a lot of cooperation and our largest employer pool, providing jobs for 45 % creativity, everyone was moved and things were in of the graduates (as compared to 27 % in 2003) . place when the students returned in late August. And almost 83% of the graduates stayed in Progress also was made on the two other campus California (compared with 89% in 2003) . Our improvements that we have been working on over alumni mentor program also provided a valued the past few years. The project with Z Space Studio so urce of advice to the students, with more than to renovate the remaining space in the Tower into a 600 Hastings alumni serving as mentors and some 400-500 seat theater took another step forward 331 matches between students and mentors. when the Board in June approved entering into a The Records Office, working with the lease with Z-Space Studio for the space. The Information Technology Department, continued to proposed joint venture with the YMCA to develop expand its technological outreach.