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T.C. Williams Law School was named after a tobacco business owner who owned 25 to 40 enslaved people, according to the university, which changed the name of the law school last year.
The descendants of the founder of the University of California Hastings College of the Law sued California on Tuesday to block the state from changing the name of the institution, the Los Angeles Times reported. The college is the state’s first law school and was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first chief justice on the California Supreme Court, the Times
Family disputes Serranus Clinton Hastings was responsible or involved in atrocities against Native Americans, and it sues to block a name change to the state's first law school.