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Schooled, Indebt, Struggling & Broke: There Are Too Many Lawyers. What's One Law School Dean to Do? 

Tuesday, Sep 9 2014
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"We're not going to tank," he writes in a spirited email. "We're the first law school west of the Rockies, the original law school of the UC system. We survived the governor's effort to zero out our budget [in] 2009, and we're stronger than ever."

The real question, he ventures, is whether legal education as a whole will tank. Wu says he's been prognosticating the end for years. He sees Hastings as an endlessly adaptable survivor in a flagging system. His new credo: "Change or die. And change again."

Recently, the Board of Trustees re-upped Wu's deanship for another five years. That can only mean more change is afoot.

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Rachel Swan was a staff writer at SF Weekly from 2013 to 2015. In previous lives she was a music editor, IP hack, and tutor of Cal athletes.

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