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After decades of dreary mediocrity, the Hastings College of the Law underwent a dramatic transformation under the leadership of David E. Snodgrass, who served as dean from 1940 to 1963.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=231}}<ref name="Tobriner" /> Snodgrass was a "feisty, outspoken advocate" who fought fiercely as dean to elevate the law school's profile both within California and at the national level.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=231}} The only reason why Hastings and Berkeley's coldly distant relationship remained collegial during most of his deanship—to the extent that Snodgrass openly supported the name change of the School of Jurisprudence and Prosser agreed to not challenge legislative appropriations for Hastings—was that he and Prosser had been friends since their days as classmates at [[Harvard College]].<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} |
After decades of dreary mediocrity, the Hastings College of the Law underwent a dramatic transformation under the leadership of David E. Snodgrass, who served as dean from 1940 to 1963.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=231}}<ref name="Tobriner" /> Snodgrass was a "feisty, outspoken advocate" who fought fiercely as dean to elevate the law school's profile both within California and at the national level.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=231}} The only reason why Hastings and Berkeley's coldly distant relationship remained collegial during most of his deanship—to the extent that Snodgrass openly supported the name change of the School of Jurisprudence and Prosser agreed to not challenge legislative appropriations for Hastings—was that he and Prosser had been friends since their days as classmates at [[Harvard College]].<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} |
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During the [[post–World War II economic expansion]], Snodgrass was able to capitalize on a massive surge of interest in legal careers among [[G.I. Bill]] veterans and [[baby boomers]].<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} With its flexible part-time program, its heavy reliance on part-time instructors who made up the majority of its faculty, its habit of holding classes in any space it could scrounge up (including [[courtroom]]s and the city's public library), and its lenient admission requirement of only two years of college-level work (increased to three in 1950), Hastings could expand very quickly in a way that elitist, bureaucratic Boalt Hall could not.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}}<ref name="Tobriner" /> Enrollment at Hastings exploded from 300 in 1941 to 496 in 1946 and to 917 in 1949.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} It was the rapid postwar expansion of Hastings which enabled Boalt Hall to vault into the [[Law school rankings in the United States|top tier of American law schools]] by the 1990s, by relieving political pressure on the law faculty at Berkeley to compromise on their strict standards for student admissions and faculty hiring.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} |
During the [[post–World War II economic expansion]], Snodgrass was able to capitalize on a massive surge of interest in legal careers among [[G.I. Bill]] veterans and [[baby boomers]].<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} With its flexible part-time program, its heavy reliance on part-time instructors who made up the majority of its faculty, its habit of holding classes in any space it could scrounge up (including [[courtroom]]s and the [[San Francisco Public Library|city's public library]]), and its lenient admission requirement of only two years of college-level work (increased to three in 1950), Hastings could expand very quickly in a way that elitist, bureaucratic Boalt Hall could not.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}}<ref name="Tobriner" /> Enrollment at Hastings exploded from 300 in 1941 to 496 in 1946 and to 917 in 1949.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} It was the rapid postwar expansion of Hastings which enabled Boalt Hall to vault into the [[Law school rankings in the United States|top tier of American law schools]] by the 1990s, by relieving political pressure on the law faculty at Berkeley to compromise on their strict standards for student admissions and faculty hiring.<ref name="Epstein" />{{rp|pages=241}} |
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It was Snodgrass who finally found Hastings a permanent home. He obtained an appropriation of $1.45 million from the state legislature and additional funding in the amount of $300,000 from the UC Board of Regents towards the construction of the law school's first permanent building, which opened on March 26, 1953.<ref name="Tobriner" /> The building was later renamed Snodgrass Hall in honor of the man who had brought it into existence, and was the center of academic life at Hastings for over six decades before its demolition in October 2020.<ref name="FaigmanRemarks">{{cite web |last1=Faigman |first1=David |title=Chancellor and Dean David Faigman on the Groundbreaking at 198 McAllister Street |url=https://www.uchastings.edu/2020/11/13/198-ground-breaking/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127120440/https://www.uchastings.edu/2020/11/13/198-ground-breaking/ |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |website=UC Hastings Law San Francisco |url-status=dead |publisher=University of California, Hastings College of the Law |access-date=February 4, 2024 |date=November 13, 2020}}</ref> |
It was Snodgrass who finally found Hastings a permanent home. He obtained an appropriation of $1.45 million from the state legislature and additional funding in the amount of $300,000 from the UC Board of Regents towards the construction of the law school's first permanent building, which opened on March 26, 1953.<ref name="Tobriner" /> The building was later renamed Snodgrass Hall in honor of the man who had brought it into existence, and was the center of academic life at Hastings for over six decades before its demolition in October 2020.<ref name="FaigmanRemarks">{{cite web |last1=Faigman |first1=David |title=Chancellor and Dean David Faigman on the Groundbreaking at 198 McAllister Street |url=https://www.uchastings.edu/2020/11/13/198-ground-breaking/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127120440/https://www.uchastings.edu/2020/11/13/198-ground-breaking/ |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |website=UC Hastings Law San Francisco |url-status=dead |publisher=University of California, Hastings College of the Law |access-date=February 4, 2024 |date=November 13, 2020}}</ref> |
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