The latest edition of California Legal History, the Journal of the California Supreme Court Historical Society, is out and available here. (I’m on the Society’s board of directors.)
The new Journal includes:
› Ladies Justice: Celebrating Seven Trailblazing Female Firsts on the California Court of Appeal by Justice Shama Hakim Mesiwala
› Chinese Immigrants in the California Supreme Court: The Earliest Civil Cases by Charles McClain
› South Dakota v. Brown: The Forgotten Decision on the Extradition of American Indian Movement Leader Dennis Banks by John Wierzbicki, Jr.
› Bringing Humanism to California’s Prisons by J. Clark Kelso
› “I Was in Prison and You Visited Me”: Prison Fellowship Volunteers Help Inmates Embrace Good Behavior by Pat Nolan and Judge Lawrence Stirling (Ret.)
› Friends Outside in Los Angeles County: Enhancing the Character of Justice by Judge Marguerite Downing and Natalie LaCourt
› Rogue Prosecutors: Deconstructing the Progressive Prosecutor Movement in the United States, A Book Review; book by Zack Smith and Charles Stimson, review by Thomas Hogan
› Teaching Controversial Subjects by Alan Brownstein
› The Critical Role and Benefits of the California Supreme Court Historical Society by Justice Daniel Kolkey (Ret.), Historical Society President
› Literature and Music—Keys to Judging, My Personal Journey: We Are More Than Our Professions by Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert
› Lawyers and Judges in Harmony by Gary Greene
› Building an Icon: The Making of Walt Disney Concert Hall
› Erle Stanley Gardner: America’s Best-Selling Author and a California Lawyer by John Caragozian
› Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas: How “Collegiality” and a “Steady Hand” Reset a Court in Crisis, oral history by Laura McCreery and introduction by Ryan Carter
› Associate Justice Keith Sparks, Special In Memoriam Session of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District August 19, 2024, introduction by Journal editor Justice George Nicholson (Ret.)
Student Essay Winners [See Historical Society announces winners of its annual writing competition]
› Guess Who’s Coming to Stanford: The Battle for the Desegregation of an Elite Law School by Gabrielle Braxton
› The Codification of Independent Living in California State Law by Douglas Sangster
› Justice Denied and Forgotten: The Hidden History of Alaska’s World War II Internment Camps by Caroline Lester
› Carlucci, Ashford, and Motley, Civil Rights Pathfinders by Journal editor Justice George Nicholson (Ret.)
