The 2023 Student Writing Competition
The 2023 Student Writing Competition Announcement
The California Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 CSCHS Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition in California Legal History.
1st: “The End of Free Land: The Commodification of Suscol Ranch and the Liberalization of American Colonial Policy.” Kyle DeLand
2nd: “California’s Constitutional University: Private Property, Public Power, and the Constitutional Corporation, 1868-1900.” Michael Banerjee
3rd: “A Shameful Legacy: Tracing the Japanese American Experience of Police Violence and Racism from the Late 19th Century Through the Aftermath of World War II.” Miranda Tafoya
Honorable Mention: “White v. Kwock Sue Lum: Chinese Adoption and U.S. Immigration Law in the Exclusion Era.” Michael Callahan, Josh Fuhrman, Alex Heffner, Grace Hwang, Henry McGannon, Abby Morris, Emma Peddrick, Maddux Reece, Christopher Sosnik and Jackson Warmack
The 2022 Student Writing Competition
2022 Student Writing Competition Announcement.
The California Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 CSCHS Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition in California Legal History.
1st: “More than Moratoriums: The Obstacles to Abolishing California’s Death Penalty.” Leah Haberman
The 2021 Student Writing Competition
The California Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the 2021 Student Writing Competition Winners.
2nd: “Getting to Tarasoff: A Gender-Based History of Tort Law Doctrine.” Brook Tylka
The 2020 Student Writing Competition
The California Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the 2020 Student Writing Competition Winners
1st: “Ronald Reagan v. CRLA: Politics, Power, and Poverty Law” Taylor Cozzens
2nd: “Breaking California’s Cycle of Juvenile Transfer” Gus Tupper
Constitutional Governance and Judicial Power: The History of the California Supreme Court
The Society’s long-awaited Constitutional Governance and Judicial Power: The History of the California Supreme Court is now available for purchase. Edited by Harry N. Scheiber, this publication covers the Court’s history from 1849 through the George Court in 2010.
The 2019 Student Writing Competition
The California Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the 2019 Student Writing Competition Winners.
The first place winning article was“Right of Publicity in the Era of Celebrity: A Conceptual Exploration of the California Right of Publicity, as Expanded in White v. Samsung Electonics, in Today’s World of Celebrity Glorification and Imitation” by Sarah Alberstein
The second place winning article was “The Right of Free Speech in Privately Owned Premises: Following up with the Robins v. Pruneyard Judgment” by Parthabi Kanungo
The 2018 Student Writing Competition
The California Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the 2018 Student Writing Competition Winner. The winning article was “How a California Settler Unsettled the Proslavery Legislature of Antebellum Louisiana” by Alexandra Havrylyshyn.
The 2017 Student Writing Competition
The California Supreme Court Historical Society is pleased to announce the 2017 Student Writing Competition Winner. The winning article was California’s No-Duty Law and Its Negative Implications by Michaela Goldstein.
Selma Moidel Smith Oral History
CSCHS Board member Selma Moidel Smith has been interviewed for the American Bar Association’s Women Trailblazers in the Law Oral History project. She is one of approximately 100 women lawyers nationwide included in the project.
Chief: The Quest for Justice in California
This important new book chronicles the life and career of former Chief Justice Ronald George. The book is based on an extensive series of oral history interviews conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley and funded by the Society.
California Legal History is the annual journal of CSCHS providing scholarly articles and oral histories of prominent figures of the bench and bar of California. To preview the contents of our latest issue, please see below: