The California Supreme Court Historical Society supports and sponsors a variety of programs for the bench, bar and general public:

The California Supreme Court Historical Society, the Los Angeles Times, Southwestern Law School, Public Counsel, the Los Angeles County Bar Association Appellate Courts Committee and the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society was held on Monday, June 1, 2009 on "Civil and Uncivil Rights in California: The Early Legal History," from 4 pm-7 pm at the L.A. Times' Harry Chandler Auditorium.

Panelists included Hon. Joseph Grodin, former Associate Justice of the Cal. Supreme Court, and a distinguished Professor of Law at UC Hastings, and Dr. Jean Pfaelzer, a professor at the University of Delaware and author of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. Jim Newton, editor of the LA Times Editorial Page, moderated. Dr. Robert Chao Romero, a UCLA assistant professor in the Dept. of Chicano/a Studies, also provided additional remarks.

Civil and Uncivil Constitutional Rights in California: The Early Legal History, a colloquium held on Thursday, January 22, 2009.

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Educational Programs, with topics including forensic history and the role of historians in the courtroom; the past, present, and future of California's courthouses; WWII reparations cases; civil rights and civil liberties during wartime; and religion, the state, and the First Amendment.

Report on California -- Laboratory of Legal Innovation [PDF] held in 2006, available here.

Report on the Perspectives on Judicial Elections: Then and Now[PDF] held in 2007, available here.

Receptions with fellow CSCHS members and Justices of the California Supreme Court.

Oral history of former Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin, completed under the direction of the Regional Oral History Office at the University of California, Berkeley.

Justice Stanley Mosk Archival Project, completed under the direction of the California Judicial Center Library.

Tour Program of the Earl Warren Building (the Supreme Court's headquarters) and the Hiram W. Johnson Building in San Francisco, conducted under the direction of the California Supreme Court. The buildings are located in San Francisco's Civic Center District at 350 McAllister Street, between Polk and Larkin Streets. For information about these docent-led tours, call 415-865-7597.

Grants and gifts are available from the Society for scholarly projects and publications dealing with California legal and judicial history that advance the mission of the Society. The Society has given gifts to the Institute of Governmental Studies at U.C. Berkeley to continue oral histories of retired California Supreme Court justices.

A Student Writing Competition for law students and graduate students to write about the California legal history, including the history of the California Supreme Court. (CLICK HERE FOR WINNERS)