The San Francisco office of Pillsbury Winthrop has recently donated to the Hastings Law Library its collection of Deering’s California Codes. Dating back to 1866 when the Bancroft-Whitney Company of San Francisco began publishing the codes in 1866, this collection includes not only the bound volumes, but all of the supplements and pocket parts. These volumes promise to be an invaluable tool for conducting California legislative history research or finding the law exactly as codified in any particular year. These codes find a welcome home at the alma mater of its namesake, James H. Deering. An 1881 Hastings College of the Law graduate, Deering’s accomplishments include not only editing the California Codes, but building the San Francisco Law Library into a nationally recognized institution and rebuilding it after the 1906 earthquake destroyed its collection of 30,000 volumes. This set is shelved in the southwest corner on the Library’s 6th floor (the McAllister Street side nearest Larkin Street). For more on the life of Deering, see James H. Deering Has Crossed the Bar, 46 Law Libr. J. 242 (1953).
Category Archives: …Titles of Interest
Health Professional Liability
Demaine, Linda J. ‘Playing Doctor’ with the Patient’s Spouse: Alternative Conceptions of Health Professional Liability. 14 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 308-356 (2007).
Space, Hippies and Harry Potter
Lewis, Eric. The Space of Law and the Law of Space. 19 Int’l J. Semiotics L. 293-309 (2006).
Williamson, Erica. Note. Moving Past Hippies and Harassment: a historical approach to sex, appearance, and the workplace. 56 Duke L.J. 681-720 (2006).
Cromer, Julie D. Harry Potter and the Three-Second Crime: are we vanishing the de minimis defense from copyright law? 36 N.M. L. Rev. 261-296 (2006).
Tattoos and Blind Justice
Bobby G. Frederick, Note. Tattoos and the First Amendment Art Should Be Protected as Art: the South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds the State’s Ban On Tattooing. (White v. South Carolina, 537 U.S. 825, 2002, No. 01-1859) 55 S.C. L. Rev. 231-251 (2003).
Pager, Chet K.W., M.D. Blind Justice, Colored Truths and the Veil of Ignorance, 41 Willamette L. Rev. 373-433 (2005).
Fog of Seaman
Benton, Jeffrey M. Note. The Fifth Circuit Loses its Way in an Attempt to Maneuver Through the Fog of Seaman Status. (Becker v. Tidewater, Inc., 335 F.3d 376, 5th Cir. 2003.) 41 Hous. L. Rev. 1017-1051 (2004).
Cubic Cyberspace
Mariotti, Renato. Cyberspace in Three Dimensions. 55 Syracuse L. Rev. 251-300 (2005).
Spotlight On…Legal Scholarship Network
Legal Scholarship Network, a division of Social Science Research Network (SSRN), is a searchable database of abstracts of working papers, and articles accepted for publication. Here’s an example:
Denning, Brannon P. Brother, Can You Paradigm? Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 23, No. 101, 2006.
Poaching the Eggs
Gunnison, Katherine Poste. Note. Poaching the Eggs: Courts and the Custody Battles Over Frozen Embryos. 8 J.L. & Fam. Stud. 275-291 (2006).
The Journal of Law and Family Studies is in the First Floor Library at K10 .O8732.
“Snack Cakes”
Byrd, Sayward. Comment. Civil Rights and the “Twinkie” Tax: the 900-pound Gorilla in the War on Obesity. 65 La. L. Rev. 303-385 (2004).
Got Milk?
Grossman, Seth. Comment. Grand Theft Oreo: the constitutionality of advergame regulation. 115 Yale L.J. 227-236 (2005).
