Douglas Saunders Sr. reports in the Daily Journal about yesterday’s virtual meeting at which the California Supreme Court Historical Society announced the winners of this year’s Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition. (I’m on the Society’s board of directors.)
The winners, who will receive cash prizes and have their papers published in the next edition of the Society’s journal California Legal History, are:
First place — UC Berkeley School of Law student Kyle DeLand for “The End of Free Land: The Commodification of Suscol Ranch and the Liberalization of American Colonial Policy.”
Second place — UC Berkeley School of Law student Michael Banerjee for “California’s Constitutional University: Private Property, Public Power, and the Constitutional Corporation 1868-1900.”
Third place — UC Irvine School of Law student Miranda Tafoya for “A Shameful Legacy: Tracing the Japanese American Experience of Police Violence and Racism from the Late 19th Century Through the Aftermath of World War II.”
The competition judges were University of Pennsylvania Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon and UC Santa Barbara Professor Laura Kalman. Both are members of the Society’s board of directors.
