Historical Society publishes 15th annual journal

The latest edition of California Legal History, the Journal of the California Supreme Court Historical Society, is out and available here.  [Disclosure:  I’m on the Society’s board of directors.]

The Journal includes the following:

• Introduction – Fifteen Years of California Legal History:   The Role of a Journal in an Emerging Field by Selma Moidel Smith
• California Supreme Court Historical Society Programs

1. ›  Justice David S. Terry and Federalism:  A Life and a Doctrine in Three Acts by Richard H. Rahm
2. ›  The Joads Go to Court:  A True-Life Melodrama with Implications for Today by John S. Caragozian
3. ›  Celebrating the California Supreme Court and Its History
4. ›  Inside the Court and Out:  California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar

• Articles

1. ›  California’s First Judicial Staff Attorneys:  The Surprising Role That Commissioners Played, 1885-1905, in Creating the Courts of Appeal by Jake Dear
2. ›  2020 Writing Competition Virtual Roundtable (see here)
3. ›  Ronald Reagan v. CRLA:  Politics, Power, and Poverty Law by Taylor Cozzens
4. ›  Breaking California’s Cycle of Juvenile Transfer by Gus Tupper
5. ›  Stop! Turn the Car Around Right Now for Federalism’s Sake! The One National Program Rule and How Courts Can Stop Its Impact by Brittney M. Welch

• Special Book Section:   A Social History of Farm Labor in California with Special Emphasis on the United Farm Workers Union and California Rural Legal Assistance by Ellen Casper Flood
• Foreword by Kevin R. Johnson

• Oral History of Justice Armand Arabian

1. Preface by Laura McCreery
2. Introduction by Ellis J. Horvitz
3. Editor’s Note by Selma Moidel Smith