The Board of Directors for the University of California Hastings College of the Law on this week authorized the law school’s leadership to work with state legislators to change the college’s name because of its founder’s genocidal acts against Native Americans in the 1850s.

Changing the name of UC Hastings, the law school founded in San Francisco in 1878 by former California Supreme Court chief justice and state attorney general Serranus Hastings, will require a change in state law, and the UC board’s vote paves the way for that to happen.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.