The latest edition of California Legal History, the Journal of the California Supreme Court Historical Society, is landing in the mailboxes of Society members and will soon be available online. (I’m on the Society’s board of directors.)
The Society’s printer has been working overtime of late. The ink is still drying on the newest issue of the Society’s Review, which arrived just last week.
This edition of the Journal is a “special” one, as explained by outgoing editor-in-chief George Nicholson: “it is our 20th annual edition, it is the 175th birthday of the California Supreme Court, and it is the year before the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence.”
The Journal includes:
Preliminaries
Foreword, by Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero
Preface, by Society President Emeritus Daniel Kolkey
Introduction, by Editor-in-Chief George Nicholson
Articles
175 Years of the California Supreme Court, by Kirk C. Jenkins [see also the Society’s book, “Constitutional Governance and Judicial Power: The History of the California Supreme Court”]
Jewish Justices of the California Supreme Court: From Gold Rush Days to the Present, by David G. Dalin
The Declaration of Independence in California: A Tortured History, by Timothy Sandefur
Is That All There Is? The Fire Next . . ., by Arthur Gilbert; “We Shall Return”: Music, Loss, and Resilience After the Fires, by Gary S. Greene
One Hundred Years of the Alameda County All-Star Prosecutors, by Leonard Kienzle
The Remarkable Women of the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, by Nancy E. O’Malley
The Women Who Shaped Public Defense: A Love Letter, by John Wesley Hawk Stoller
What Justice? Confronting the Criminal Justice System’s Biggest Problem, by Jeffrey Seaman & Paul H. Robinson
Confronting Failures of Justice: Exposing the American Criminal Justice System’s Protection of Criminals, a Book Review; book by Paul Robinson, Jeffrey Seaman, and Muhammad Sarahne; review by Thomas Hogan
An Intersection of Art and the Law in the Age of the Baby Boomer, by Terry McHale
Reflections on Justice from the Historic Auburn Courthouse, by Garen Horst
California’s First Felony Murder Opinion, by Michael J. Raphael
Rich [Fybel], Liz [Igra], Kristallnacht, the Holocaust, and Beyond, by George Nicholson
Oral History
A Pioneering Path: Justice Ming W. Chin, and His Astounding Journey: From Family Farm to California’s Highest Court, oral history by Laura McCreery, Introduction and Final Words by Ryan Carter
Student Essay Winners [see also here and here]
Immigration and Invasion in the California Constitution, 1849–1879, by Kit Beyer
Unratified: California and the Forgotten Original Understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment, by Ilani Nurick
The Woman Witkin: Building a Legacy, by A.J. Stone Jonathan
