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Originally Posted by a very long weekend
Way off. Cal's law school, Boalt (which recently changed to Berkeley Law due to political correctness) has nothing to do with Hastings, which predates it, in fact. Hastings is a UC school, but we're autonomous within the UC system. You're right, however, that it's a similar relationship to that of UCSF.
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As far as I'm concerned, the UC system in the Bay Area is a complex of schools under the University of California. Every large university has a variety of separate "schools", all part of the same university. Berkeley itself doesn't have a medical school like UCLA does because the UC medical school here was put in San Francisco and the law schools, Boalt and Hastings, existence meant Berkeley didn't have its own law school. I'll take your word for Berkeley having absorbed Boalt administratively. It hardly seems to matter to me. This is all administrative fine tuning of no consequence as far as I'm concerned and I don't try to keep up as it changes (UCSF even tried to merge its hospital system with Stanford's, then undid it)
In case anyone cares, there's probably a reason the UC medical campus is in San Francisco. Medical schools in the US traditionally used the urban poor as "teaching material", essentially providing free care in return for allowing medical students and house staff to provide most of that care under supervision of senior physicians. My alma mater, Johns Hopkins, for example, put its undergraduate campus in one of the nicest/toniest neighborhoods in Baltimore but the medical school and hospital are in one of the grittier parts of East Baltimore because that's where the patients willing to take the trade were. The Berkeley vs SF UC situation seems similar to me.
I'm willing to bet UC Hastings is also in San Francisco right next to the state office building because that makes it close to one of the meeting places of the state Supreme Court and to what once was the most active municipal/county court system in the northern part of the state.
All of these location issues simply put UC educational institutions where they belong. How they organize their administration is up to them.