University of California, Berkeley’s law school moves to strip name of famed Boalt Hall, named after anti-Chinese racist

This article was about University of California, Berkeley’s law school moves to strip name of famed Boalt Hall, named after anti-Chinese racist. The University of California, Berkeley’s elite law school will move to drop the name of its famed Boalt Hall after a century because it honours a man now known to have been an anti-Chinese racist, the dean announced. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said he struggled for months over the school’s close ties to the name of John Henry Boalt, a 19th-century San Francisco lawyer who described the Chinese labourers coming into California as unassimilable murderers…