The California Appellate Court Legacy Project

The California Court systems web site has a short blurb entiled The California Appellate Court Legacy Project whereby current and retired California Justices will be interviewed. The web site describes this wonderful project as follows:

In 2006, the California Appellate Court Legacy Project was undertaken to interview all retired justices in the state, as well as active justices who may be nearing retirement. Overseen by the Appellate Court Legacy Project Committee (chaired by Associate Justice Judith L. Haller of the Fourth Appellate District, Division One), interviews are videotaped or audiotaped and conducted by interviewers selected from within the appellate branch. Ultimately the tapes will be made available to judicial colleagues, historians, scholars, law students, and members of the public. The resulting archive will be an historical record of both the personal experiences of individual justices and the evolution of the California appellate courts.

I have not been able to find any other information about this. I assume that it is a work in progress. This would be a wonderful project with respect to Supreme Court Justices.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

Hat Tip: Empirical Legal Studies Blog