The CSCHS Newsletter was a biannual publication offering timely articles, book reviews, member news and Society updates. It was published through the Spring/Summer 2019 issue and was replaced by the CSCHS Review starting with the Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
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]
