The CSCHS Newsletter is a biannual publication offering timely articles, book reviews, member news and Society updates (member benefit; provided in electronic form to State Bar members participating in the dues check off program). Newletters are organized by year of publication with many of the featured articles noted in the description.
2019-2015 | 2014-2012 | 2011-2009 | 2008-2006 | 2005-2003
› Spring / Summer 2019 Newsletter [PDF]
- Introducing Justice Joshua Groban
- Never on a Sunday: Religious and Economic Liberty in Gold Rush-Era California
- The Death of Doc Harlan: Sex, Lies, Violence and Gender in Victorian Era Los Angeles
- The 1937 Murder Case That Influenced Governor Newsom’s Death Penalty Moratorium
- Making the Stanley Mosk Courthouse
- Celebrating Selma: Pillar of the California Supreme Court Historical Society
- Research Travel Grant in California Legal History
- Book Review: Finding Certainty and Often Solace Elusive
- CSCHS Board Member Laura Kalman
› Fall / Winter 2018 Newsletter [PDF]
- How the California Supreme Court Saved Dodger Stadium
- In Conversation with Justice Kathryn Werdegar
- A “Manifestly Unfair” Bar Examination: The October 1951 Test and Its Aftermath
- California’s Reporter of Decisions
- Judicial History on Display: Exhibits on California’s Reporter of Decisions, Women and Latino Justices
- Stephen R. Reinhardt: A Sense of Fairness and Compassion
- 2018 Student Writing Competition Winner Announced
- Book Review: How Supreme Court Nominations Became a Spectacle
› Spring / Summer 2018 Newsletter [PDF]
- The Story of In re Marriage Cases: Our Supreme Court’s Role in Establishing Marriage Equality in California
- Law Walk: A Legal Site-Seeing Tour of Downtown Los Angeles (Part 2)
- Brosnahan v. Eu: How California Law Turned in 1982 to Face Crime Victims at Defendants’ Expense
- Sunday Mornings with Judge Pregerson: A Grandson Remembers
- Book Review: Rose Bird’s “Case”: Anomalous Confluence of Unique Circumstances or Lasting Damage to Judicial Independence?
› Fall / Winter 2017 Newsletter [PDF]
- Law Walk: A Legal Site-Seeing Tour of Downtown Los Angeles (Part 1)
- Colleagues, Friends and Family Celebrate Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar’s Retirement
- Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar: A Staff Attorney’s Memoir
- People v. Hall: A Postscript
- History on the Walls: The Santa Ana Courthouse Murals
- Images of History: The Mosk Family Autograph Collection
- Tooling Around Berkeley in a Yellow Jag: A Tribute to Professor Herma Hill Kay
- John Van de Kamp: Man of Principle
- Book Review: How Adversarialism Triumphed – and What It Wrought
- 2017 Student Writing Competition Winner Announced
- Student Chapter of the Society Begins at UC Hastings
- Dan Grunfeld Takes Leadership Role at Pardee RAND Graduate School
› Spring / Summer 2017 Newsletter [PDF]
- The Infamous Case of People v. Hall
- Y.C. Hong Championed Chinese Inclusion
- Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar: A Singular Path to the Supreme Court
- David S.Terry’s Writ of Habeas Corpus
- United States Attorney Cecil Poole
- UCLA Law School’s Riseborough Mural
- The Wasp Stings the Courts
- Big Thoughts and Vigorous Debate at the Supreme Court Conference
- Berkeley Law Celebrates New Court History Book and Authors
- Book Review: A Conservative’s View of Law Professors
- New CSCHS Board Member Jorge E. Navarrete
› Fall / Winter 2016 Newsletter [PDF]
- President’s Letter: Our Common History Can Light Our Path Forward
- Chief Justices Celebrate Publication of the History of the California Supreme Court
- California’s Lost “Arcadia”
- Malcolm M. Lucas: A Personal Remembrance
- Thirty Years After a Hundred-Year Flood: CSCHS Presents Judicial Elections Program At State Bar Annual Meeting
- The Supreme Court Justice Who Went to Comic Con
- A Second Look at Summers v. Tice
- Vagrants, Migrants and California’s “Bum Blockade”
- Shirley M. Hufstedler: The Long Reach of a Legal Life
- Restored Portrait of First Northern District Court Judge Celebrated With Skit About His Rival
- 2016 Student Writing Competition Winners Announced
- New CSCHS Board Members
- Editor’s Note
› Spring / Summer 2016 Newsletter [PDF]
A preview of the Society’s new book Constitutional Governance and Judicial Power: The History of the California Supreme Court
- Pioneers on the Bench 1849-1879
- Creating a Court System 1880-1910
- The Age of Reform 1910-1940
- The Gibson Era 1940-1964
- The Liberal Court: Ascendency and Crisis 1964-1987
- The Lucas Years 1987-1996
- Defining a Branch, Finding the Center: The George Court 1996-2010
- Additional Information about the California Supreme Court History Book
› Fall / Winter 2015 Newsletter [PDF]
- A “Far-Reaching and Scholarly Text”
- Honoring Joseph R. Grodin
- In the Justices’ Own Words
- 2015 Student Writing Competition Winners Announced
› Spring / Summer 2015 Newsletter [PDF]
