California Legal History

California Legal History (formerly The California Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook), is an annual journal which publishes scholarly articles and the oral histories of prominent figures of the bench and bar of California (member benefit at minimum $50 level). To purchase current or back issues in hard copy, please contact W.S. Hein & Co., Inc. Full text is available online through subscribing libraries at HeinOnline, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text, and LegalTrac.

2016-2015  |  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 | 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• Section 1:   UCLA Law Historical Documents

Memorandum
[Presented in person to the UCLA Chancellor by eight
dissident members of the UCLA School of Law faculty on
September 21, 1955]   (Excerpt)

Findings
[Report of the Chancellor’s Committee on the UCLA
School of Law controversy, May 24, 1956]  (Excerpt)

• Section 2:    UCLA Law Oral Histories   (Excerpts)

William H. Rosenthal
J.A.C. “Cliff” Grant
Edgar A. (“Ted”) Jones
L. Dale Coffman
Harold E. Verrall
Richard C. Maxwell
Frances McGann McQuade

• Section 3:   UCLA Law Personal Reminiscences

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

• Special Section: Writing Competition Winner

“A Model for Juvenile Parole Reform: California’s Youth Offender Parole Hearings Challenge the Modern Parole System and Apply the Fundamental Principles in Graham and Miller to the Release Decision-Making Process”
Courtney B. LaHaie

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›  California Legal History | 2015: Vol. 10 [PDF]

 

• Title Pages
• Table of Contents
• Special Section:   Honoring Joseph R. Grodin
• 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(Excerpt)
• Inverse Condemnation:    California’s Widening Loophole(Excerpt)
• Oral History:   Supreme Court Associate Justice Cruz Reynoso (1982-1987)(Excerpt)
• Agrarian Lifeways and Judicial Transitions for Hispanic Families in Anglo California:   Sources for Legal History in the Autry National Center of the American West(Excerpt)
• Student Symposium – Introduction:   Three Intersections of Federal and California Law
• Student Symposium – 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 (Excerpt)
• Student Symposium – Gender Equity in the Workplace:   A Comparative Look at Pregnancy Disability Leave Laws in California and the United States Supreme Court (Excerpt)
• Student Symposium – Protecting Children:   The California Public School Vaccination Mandate Debate(Excerpt)
• Book Reviews