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:

› California Legal History | 2014: Vol. 9 [PDF]

›  The Argument of an Appeal before the California Supreme Court
›  Bernard E. Witkin on his 80th Birthday
›  Justice Raymond Sullivan on his 80th Birthday
›  Appointments to the California Supreme Court

Articles

›  Chief Justice David S. Terry and the Language of Federalism
›  Fifty Years of the Washington-Gilbert Provocative Act Doctrine:   Time for an Early Retirement?
›  The Judicial Give and Take:   The Right to Equal Educational Opportunity in California

Legal History in the Making

›  The (F)law of Karma: In Light of Sedlock v. Baird, Would Meditation Classes in Public Schools Survive a First Amendment Establishment Clause Challenge?
›  California’s Anti-Revenge Porn Legislation:  Good Intentions, Unconstitutional Result
›  Virtual Cloning:  Transformation or Imitation? Reforming the Saderup Court’s Transformative Use Test for Rights of Publicity

Student Symposium

›  Introduction   The California Supreme Court and Judicial Lawmaking – The Jurisprudence of The California Supreme Court
›  Judicial Lawmaking, Public Policy, and the California Supreme Court
›  Justice Traynor’s “Activist” Jurisprudence:  Field and Posner Revisited
›  The Influence of Justice Traynor’s Approach to Statutory Interpretation on Modern American Law

› California Legal History | 2013: Vol. 8 [PDF]

› Buried Treasure: California Legal History Research at UC Hastings Law Library
› Personal Reminiscences of Three State Bar Leaders

Articles

›  Building the New Supremacy:   California’s “Chinese Question” and the Fate of Recontruction
›  The Vine Vote:   Why California Went Dry
›  California’s Implausible Crime of Assault
›  California Lawyer:  Aaron Sapiro and the Progressive-Era Vision of Law as Public Service

Book Reviews

› After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
› Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction

› California Legal History | 2012: Vol. 7 [PDF]

› Oral History of Justice Richard M. Mosk
› Protecting Constitutional Rights: Justice Stanley Mosk

›  Editor’s Note
›  From Integrating Students to Redistributing Dollars: The Eclipse of School Desegregation by School Finance Equalization in 1970s California
›  Implementation:  How the Borderlands Redefined Federal Immigration Law and Policy in California, Arizona, and Texas, 1917-1924
›  Turning Back the Clock:  California Constitutionalists, Heartstone Originalism, and Brown v. Board

›  Introduction:  Examining Legal Liberalism in California
›  What’s Sunday All About?  The Rise and Fall of California’s Sunday Closing Law
›  All the Other Daisys:  Roger Traynor, Recrimination, and the
Demise of At-Fault Divorce
›  The Story of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act:  How Cesar Chavez Won the Best Labor Law in the Country and Lost the Union
›   California v. California:  Law, Landscape, & the Foundational Fantasies of the Golden State
›  The Cal Fed Controversy:  Distinguishing California’s Pregnancy Leave Law and the Family and Medical Leave Act

› California Legal History | 2011: Vol. 6 [PDF]

›  Judge Leon Thomas David (1901-1994)
›  Ruth Church Gupta (1917-2009)
›  Sharp Whitmore (1918-2001)
›  Judge George Yonehiro (1922-2001)

›  “Devilishly Uncomfortable”:  In the Matter of Sic – The California Supreme Court Strikes a Balance Between Race, Drugs and Government in 1880s California
›  Nine Treasures:   California Legal History Research in the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
›  The History of Los Angeles As Seen from the City Attorney’s Office
›  Translating California:   Official Spanish Usage in California’s Constitutional Conventions and State Legislature, 1848-1894
›  The Lady in Purple:   The Life and Legal Legacy of Gladys Towles Root
›  Anti-Corruption Crusade or “Businessman’s Revolution”? – An Inquiry into the 1856 Vigilance Committee