[2] His mother decided to move the family to California so tenBroek could attend a state school for the blind.

He was on the California Law Review, was a member of the Order of the Coif, and earned a Brandeis Research Fellowship with Harvard University.

His 1958 book critiqued the Supreme Court's decision regarding the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

[3] During the student strike supporting the Free Speech Movement asserting the right of students to promote political causes in Sproul Plaza on the University of California Berkeley campus, Dr. tenBroek was not among the faculty members who cancelled classes in support of the strikers.

He explained in class when asked by a student why he was holding class that the high level of interest created by the demonstrations provided a good opportunity for learning. TenBroek wrote in his 1966 article "The Right to Live in the World: The Disabled in the Law of Torts", that the doctrines in the law of torts ought to be reviewed and revised to address the modern societal integration of disabled people into society.

[5] Research specialist at the Jacobus tenBroek Library, Lou Ann Blake, catalogued the collection.

[5] Some of the papers are personal correspondence of tenBroek with family, friends, jurists, authors, politicians, and members of Congress.

[5] Together tenBroek and Feldheym had three children: Jacobus Zivnuska, Anna Carlotta (Hammond), and Nicolaas Perry.