Welcome to Western Legal History, the Journal of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society.
Our goal is to introduce readers of all backgrounds to the rich legal history of the Western States and the Pacific Islands. Western Legal History contains stimulating and reflective articles, interviews, and book reviews focused on the history of law in the American West and the Pacific Islands. Prominent authors in history, law, political science, and other fields explore and illuminate the role that the law has played in the West, from pre-contact times to today.
Our Editor-in-Chief is Ninth Circuit Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, and our Editorial Board is composed of prominent historians and legal scholars.
Western Legal History is available online and for purchase in print.. Current and back issues are also available through the service HeinOnline.
Interested in proposing an article or a book review? Contact NJCHS Executive Director Johanna Hartwig at Johanna.Hartwig@NJCHS.org.
Editor in Chief:
Hon. Michael Daly Hawkins
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Guest Editor:
Hon. Scott C. Clarkson
United States Bankruptcy Court
(Central District of California)
Editorial Board:
Tessa L. Dysart
University of Arizona,
James E. Rogers College of Law
Carlton F.W. Larson
U.C. Davis School of Law
Thomas Healy
Seton Hall University School of Law
Hon. Robert Lasnik
U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Washington
Arthur D. Hellman
University of Pittsburgh
School of Law
Jonathan Rose
ASU Sandra Day O’Connor
College of Law
S. Deborah Kang
University of Virginia
Corcoran Department of History
Hon. G. Murray Snow
U.S. District Court for the
District of Arizona
Book Review Editor:
Kevin J. Hamilton
Administrative Assistant:
Laura Ferguson
Research Assistants
Julia Morse
Allison Clemency-Lee
Thomas Sipp
Production
Johanna Hartwig
Georgia Johnson