The law of California consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, as well as case law. The California Codes form the general statutory law, and most state agency regulations are available in the California Code of Regulations.
Title page of the original copy of the Constitution of California
Bernard Witkin's Summary of California Law, a legal treatise popular with California judges and lawyers
The California Appellate Reports, the official reporter of the Courts of Appeal
The Restatement (Second) of Torts
Constitution of California
The Constitution of California is the primary organizing law for the U.S. state of California, describing the duties, powers, structures and functions of the government of California. California's constitution was drafted in both English and Spanish by American pioneers, European settlers, and Californios and adopted at the 1849 Constitutional Convention of Monterey, following the American Conquest of California and the Mexican–American War and in advance of California's Admission to the Union in 1850. The constitution was amended and ratified on 7 May 1879, following the Sacramento Convention of 1878–79.
Image: California Constitution 1849 title page
Image: Proclama al Pueblo de California (1849) (cropped)
Colton Hall, in Monterey, site of the Constitutional Convention of 1849
Signatures of the 1849 California Constitution
