For many years, the Society published a newsletter that began with Society news and a limited number of substantive articles. Over time, the newsletter grew in size and evolved to feature a broad range of substantive historical articles. Beginning with the Fall/Winter 2019 issue, the CSCHS Newsletter has been renamed the CSCHS Review to better reflect the evolving nature of the publication.
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The CSCHS Review is a member benefit. State Bar members participating in the dues check off program receive this publication in electronic format.
› Fall / Winter 2024 Review [PDF]
- San Quentin Prison’s Birth Story
- “Because of Blood Differences Alone”: Challenging the Segregation of Native American Students in California
- A Postscript: The Port Chicago Mutiny
- Reckoning With Our Rights: The Evolution of Voter Access in California, Part II
- Profile: CSCHS Board Member Justice Teri L. Jackson
- Legal History Winners Recognized at Virtual Awards Ceremony
- Book Review: A Darkness Descending on the U.S. Supreme Court — Review of Reading the Constitution by Stephen Breyer
- Justice Edward Panelli, 1931–2024
- CSCHS Board Members
› Spring / Summer 2024 Review [PDF]
- Reckoning With Our Rights: The Evolution of Voter Access in California, Part I
- Forum for the Common Man: How Robins v. Pruneyard Integrated the Marketplace of Ideas With the Marketplace of Goods
- The Remote Valley That Facilitated Modern Environmental Protection
- Book Review: On Being Good — Review of The Pursuit of Happiness by Jeffrey Rosen
- CSCHS Board of Directors
› Fall / Winter 2023 Review [PDF]
- Serranus Clinton Hastings: A Counterpoint on Culpability
- The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers: A Half Century
of Accomplishments - An Appreciation: Justice John A. Arguelles
- An Appreciation: Justice Norman L. Epstein
- Book Review: Stephen Field, Reconsidered
- Book Review: Doing Well While Doing Good
- California Legal History’s New Editor: Justice George Nicholson
- Legal History Winners Recognized at Virtual Round table
- CSCHS Board of Directors
› Spring / Summer 2023 Review [PDF]
- Of Colleges and Halls and Judges Bearing Gifts: Reflections on the Great Denaming Debate
- A Red Flag about a Red Flag in 1920s California
- Justice Kelli Evans: Compassion and Grace Under Pressure
- Portraits of Jake
- Chief Justice Phil Gibson’s Scheme to Appoint Bernie Witkin as Reporter of Decisions and Transform the Judicial Council
- Hal Cohen Inducted into the Appellate Lawyers Hall of Fame
- CSCHS Board of Directors
› Fall / Winter 2022 Review [PDF]
- The Supreme Court Case That Dared Not Speak Its Name
- The Keeper of Los Angeles’ Lost Buildings
- Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye’s Mission to Bring Order From Chaos
- Personal Reflections About Working for and With Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye
- The 1944 Port Chicago Mutiny and the Legacy of Racism in the U.S. Military
- Expanding Justice for All: The Supreme Court of California in Times of Change
- A Glimpse Into the Private Life of the Late Chief Justice Rose Bird
- California’s Newest Supreme Court Justice: Kelli Evans
- California’s New Chief Justice: Patricia Guerrero
- Book Review: Public Defenders: The Antidote To Communism
- Remembering CSCHS Board Member Ellis Horvitz
- 2022 Writing Competition Virtual Roundtable
- From the CSCHS President
- CSCHS Board of Directors
› Spring/Summer 2022 Review [PDF]
- History in Hypotheticals: California’s Surprising Social Justice Bar Exam Questions, 1933–2021
- The California Supreme Court’s First Mistake: Von Schmidt v. Huntington
- California’s Constitutional Right to Abortion Before and After Dobbs
- “A Disgusting Episode”: Lois Pantages and the Death of Juro Rokumoto, 1929–1930
- Kent Richland’s Legacy to the California Supreme Court Historical Society
- Book Review: Justice Breyer on the Crisis of Confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court
- Book Review: Defiance, Redemption and One Man’s Search for Justice
- The California Supreme Court’s Newest Member: Patricia Guerrero
- Remembering CSCHS Board Member Tom McDermott
- CSCHS Board Members
› Fall/Winter 2021 Review [PDF]
- California’s Early Battle with “Birtherism”: D.W. Griffith, the NAACP, the Ku Klux Klan and the Courts
- The Demise of Gambling Ships in Santa Monica Bay
- Bernie Witkin’s Bad Advice: A Personal Remembrance
- Member News: Laura Kalman Testifies Before the Presidential Commission
- Book Review: How Martial Law Came to Hawai‘i
- 2021 Writing Competition Virtual Roundtable
- CSCHS Board Members
› Spring/Summer 2021 Review [PDF]
- What Did We Learn from the California Courts’ Response to the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919?
- “Mentoring” Martin Jenkins: California’s New Associate Supreme Court Justice
- Cruz Reynoso, California’s First Latino California Supreme Court Justice
- California Constitutional Law — The Casebook
- Bernie Witkin’s Early Life and Career: Preparing for a Public Life
- Remembering Bernie Witkin
- Becoming Chief Justice: The Nomination and Confirmation of Rose Elizabeth Bird
- UCLA School of Music Endowment Honors Selma Moidel Smith
- Racism, Birthers and the Rule of Law in Early California
- The Facts and Law Didn’t Seem to Matter — Until They Did
- Book Review: Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles
- Book Review: An Essential Resource for Researching Legal History
- CSCHS Board Member John Wierzbicki
- CSCHS Board Members
› Fall/Winter 2020 Review [PDF]
- Woman Jurors in California: Recognizing a Right of Citizenship
- Hal Cohen: Tributes to the California Supreme Court’s Most Extraordinary and Influential Staff Attorney
- Harry Bridges and the Los Angeles Times: Unlikely Free Speech Allies
- The California Supreme Court’s Newest Justice: Martin Jenkins
- A Lawyer by Accident: Bernie Witkin’s Early Life and Career, Part 1: A Suitable Replacement
- Stranger in a Strange Land: The Story of Yellow Bird, California’s First Native American Attorney
- 2020 Writing Competition Virtual Roundtable
- CSCHS Board of Directors
› Spring/Summer 2020 Review [PDF]
- When Supreme Court Staff Signed Opinions: The Surprising Role That Commissioners Played in Creating the Courts of Appeal
- When Chief Justice Gibson Joined Hollywood Stars to Testify at a Movie Mogul’s Tax Evasion Trial
- The Legal Activism of Carey McWilliams
- Peter Hardeman Burnett’s Short but Notorious Judicial Legacy
- Justice Ming W. Chin – A Legacy of Service, Civility, and Excellence
- Legal Scholar Barbara Allen Babcock
- California Leads in Oral Histories of State Supreme Court Justices
- Book Review: Lives Ruined, but Was Justice Done?
- Editor’s Note
- CSCHS Board of Directors
› Fall/Winter 2019 Review [PDF]
- When Japanese Americans Were Pressured to Renounce Their U.S. Citizenship
- When the Justices First Donned Robes
- “Calling for the Best Parts of Me” An Interview with California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye
- One Robe’s Role in the Rule of Law by Chief Justice Ronald M. George (Ret.)
- A Legal Site-Seeing Tour of Downtown Los Angeles (Part 3)
- The Indictment and Presidential Pardon of Caspar Weinberger
- Opinion: Remove the Statue Honoring Los Angeles Lawyer Stephen M. White
- With 40 Years on the Bench, Judge Carol Brosnahan Leads RBG
- Book Review: Fathers and Sons: The Brown Family and the Arc of Liberalism in the Twentieth Century
- 2019 Student Writing Competition Winners Announced
- A California Chief Justice Sent the First Transcontinental Telegram
- First Legal History Travel Grant Winners Announced
