California Legal History

2023-2019  |  2018-2015  |  2014-2011  |  2010-2006  |  1999-1994

To view the table of contents and excerpts of selected articles from these volumes, please see below:

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›  California Legal History | 2010: Vol. 5 [PDF]

 

• Title Pages
• Table of Contents
• Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson

›  Oral History of Chief Justice Phil Gibson
›  Phil S. Gibson:  Conversation with Edward L. Lascher
›  Remembering Chief Justice Gibson

• Oral History of Justice Mildred Lillie
• Justice Jesse W. Carter: Grandfather and Role Model
• A Retrospective of the Committee on History of Law in California
• Articles

›  The California Public Defender:   Its Origins, Evolution and Decline
›  The Case of the Black-Gloved Rapist:   Defining the Public Defender’s Role in the California Courts, 1913-1948
›  The California Supreme Court and the Felony Murder Rule:   A Sisyphean Challenge?
›  California’s Role in the Mid-Twentieth Century Controversy Over Pain and Suffering Damages:    The NACCA, Melvin Belli, and the Crusade for “The Adequate Award”
›  California Legal History in the Huntington Library:  An Update

• Book Review Essays

›  Woman Lawyer:  The Trials of Clara Foltz
›  Resisting McCarthyism:  To Sign or Not to Sign California’s Loyalty Oath
›  After the Tax Revolt:  California’s Proposition 13 Turns 30
›  Racial Propositions:  Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California
›  The Great Dissents of the “Lone Dissenter”:  Justice Jesse W. Carter’s Twenty Tumultuous Years on the California Supreme Court
›  A Legal History Santa Cruz County:  An Account of the Local Bench and Bar
Through the End of the Twentieth Century
›  History of the Bench and Bar of California:  Being Biographies of Many Remarkable Men, A Store of Humorous and Pathetic Recollections, Accounts of Important Legislation and Extraordinary Cases

• Book Reviews

›  Women Who Kill Men:  California Courts, Gender, and the Press
›  Testimonios:  Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
›  Water and the West:  The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West

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›  California Legal History | 2009: Vol. 4 [PDF]

 

• Title Pages
• Table of Contents
• Special Section on Justice Stanley Mosk

›  Stanley Mosk’s Letters to his Brother Overseas during World War II
›  Fifteen Papers by Justice Stanley Mosk
›  The Influence of Justice Stanley Mosk’s Opinions

• Oral History:  Justice Jesse W. Carter, California Supreme Court (1939-1959)
• Articles

›  Jesse W. Carter and California Water Law:   Guns, Dynamite, and Farmers, 1918-1939
›  Public Land, Private Settlers, and the Yosemite Valley Case of 1872
›  How Evolving Social Values Have Shaped (and Reshaped) California Criminal Law
›  The First California Statute:   Legal History and the California State Archives
›  California’s Liberal Moment:   The 1849 Constitution and the Rule of Law

• Book Review Essay:   Hope’s Boy:   A Memoir
• Book Review:   The Mining Law of 1872: Past, Politics, and Prospects

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›  California Legal History | 2008: Vol. 3 [PDF]

 

• Title Pages
• Table of Contents
• Oral History:    Joseph R. Grodin, Professor of Law and Supreme Court Justice
• Preventive Tax Policy:   Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor’s Tax Philosophy
• “Shall Law Stand for Naught?”:   The Los Angeles Chinese Massacre of 1871 at Trial
• Book Review:    The Development of Los Angeles City Government. An Institutional History
• Book Review:    The Enigma Woman:   The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison

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›  California Legal History | 2007: Vol. 2 [PDF]

 

• Table of Contents

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›  California Legal History | 2006: Vol. 1 [PDF]

 

• Table of Contents
• Editor’s Preface