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› California Legal History | 2018: Vol. 13 [PDF]
This volume is Part II of a two-part tribute to Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar on the occasion of her retirement from the California Supreme Court on August 31, 2017. It is a theme volume with articles on topics in Environmental Law, one of Justice Werdegar’s areas of special interest.
- Title Pages
- Table of Contents
- Environmental Law – Articles Section
- Environmental Law – Book Section
- Environmental Law – Oral History Section
- Articles
› The California Environmental Quality Act at 40
› Honoring Justice Kathryn Werdegar For Landmark Decisions Interpreting the California Environmental Quality Act
› Justice Werdegar, State Police Power and Obstacle Preemption: An Enduring Legacy
› What Happened to Hispanic Natural Resources Law in California?
› From Corporatism to Citizen Oversight: The Legal Fight Over California Redwoods, 1969-1999
The Conservation of Local Autonomy: California’s Agricultural Land Policies, 1900-1966
› Introductory Materials
› Chapter 1 – “Slurbanizing” the “Valley of the Heart’s Delight
› Chapter 2 – The Genesis of Home Rule in California
› Chapter 3 – From Home Rule to Local Autonomy: Rejecting Regional Planning
› Chapter 4 – From Home Rule to Local Autonomy: Public Finance Reform
› Chapter 5 – The Tenacity of Parochialism: State Planning, 1929–1959
› Chapter 6 – Girding Urban Sprawl With a Slender Green Belt
› Chapter 7 – Preferential Taxation and the Conservation of Local Autonomy
› Chapter 8 – The Mutability of Federalism: Reshaping the Contours of the Williamson Act
› Bibliography
Excerpts From the Oral Histories of:
› John Zierold
› Thomas J. Graff
› Henry J. Vaux, Sr.
› David E. Pesonen
› Bruce S. Howard
› William W. Wood, Jr.
› Sei Fuji: An Alien-American Patriot
› California – Laboratory of Legal Innovation
› Criminal Law Principles in California: Balancing a “Right to be Forgotten” with a Right to Remember
The following article was the 2017 winner of the CSCHS Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition in California Legal History
› California Legal History | 2017: Vol. 12 [PDF]
This volume, published in December 2017, is Part I of a two-part tribute to Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar on the occasion of her retirement from the California Supreme Court on August 31, 2017.
- Title Pages
- Table of Contents
- Tributes to Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar
- Oral History of Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar
- Unpublished Speeches
› Tributes From the California Supreme Court
» Goodwin Liu
» Ming Chin
» Carol Corrigan
» Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
» Leondra Kruger
» Tani Cantil-Sakauye
» Ronald M.George
» Joseph R. Grodin
› Kay Werdegar’s Enduring Legacy
› And Here’s to You, Justice Werdegar
› Celebrating Judge Kay
› A Staff Attorney’s Memoir
› A Congressman’s Tribute
› Response by Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar
› Introduction by Edward A. Panelli
› Introduction by Julia J. Norrell
› Interview 1 • October 21, 2014
› Interview 2 • November 6, 2014
› Interview 3 • December 12, 2014
› Interview 4 • January 21, 2015
› Interview 5 • February 25, 2015
› Interview 6 • March 19, 2015
› Interview 7 • April 16, 2015
› Interview 8 • June 18, 2015
› Interview 9 • August 20, 2015
› Interview 10 • October 22, 2015
› Interview 11 • November 24, 2015
› Interview 12 • December 7, 2015
› Bibliography of Published Works
› Regarding Conservatorship of Wendland
› On Being Honored by the American Jewish Committee
› California Legal History | 2016: Vol. 11[PDF]
- Title Pages
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The UCLA School of Law — Origin, Conflict, and Growth
- Section 1: UCLA Law Historical Documents
- Section 2: UCLA Law Oral Histories
- Section 3: UCLA Law Personal Reminiscences
- Special Section: Writing Competition Winner
Findings
[Report of the Chancellor’s Committee on the UCLA
School of Law controversy, May 24, 1956]
William H. Rosenthal
J.A.C. “Cliff” Grant
Edgar A. (“Ted”) Jones
L. Dale Coffman
Harold E. Verrall
Richard C. Maxwell
Frances McGann McQuade
Norman Abrams
Michael Asimow
Paul Bergman
David Binder and Paul Bergman
Norman Epstein
Charlie Firestone
George Abele
Kenneth Graham
Alex Kozinski
James E. Krier
Daniel H. Lowenstein
Elwood Lui
Dorothy W. Nelson
Steven Z. Perren
› California Legal History | 2015: Vol. 10 [PDF]
- Title Pages
- Table of Contents
- Special Section: Honoring Joseph R. Grodin
- Articles
- Justice Cruz Reynoso: The People’s Justice
- Oral History and the California State Archives
- Oral History: Supreme Court Associate Justice Cruz Reynoso (1982-1987)
- Historical Documents: Agrarian Lifeways and Judicial Transitions for Hispanic Families in Anglo California: Sources for Legal History in the Autry National Center of the American West
- Student Symposium on Three Intersections of Federal and California Law
- Book Review: Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush
- Book Review: Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism
› In Search of California’s Legal History: A Bibliography of Sources
› The Loeb Firm And the Origins of Entertainment Law Practice in Los Angeles, 1908-1940
› Laura’s Law: Concerns, Effectiveness and Implementation
› Inverse Condemnation: California’s Widening Loophole
› Introduction
› The Death Penalty Debate: Comparing the United States Supreme Court’s Interpretation of the Eighth Amendment to that of the California Supreme Court and a Prediction of the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Glossip v. Gross
› Gender Equity in the Workplace: A Comparative Look at Pregnancy Disability Leave Laws in California and the United States Supreme Court
› Protecting Children: The California Public School Vaccination Mandate Debate
