Welcome, Ben Pontin

We're happy to announce that the blog will be hosting a series of posts by Ben Pontin, of the University of the West of England, Bristol. Ben is the author of Nuisance Law and Environmental Protection: An Analysis of the Enforcement of Injunctions (Lawtext 2013), as well as numerous articles on environmental law in Victorian Britain, including:

• "Environmental Law Making Public Opinion in Victorian Britain: the Cross-currents of Bentham’s and Coleridge’s Ideas", (2014) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1-33
• "The Common Law Clean Up of the ‘Workshop of the World’: More Realism About Nuisance Law's Historic Environmental Achievements", (2013) 40 Journal of Law and Society 173-198
• "Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence", (2012) 75 Modern Law Review 1010-1036
• "Integrated Pollution Control in Victorian Britain: Rethinking Progress within the History of Environmental Law", (2007) 19 (2) Journal of Environmental Law 173-199

Environmental law textbooks tend to start off by explaining modern environmental legislation as a response to the failure of nuisance law to effectively control pollution. Ben will be posting here on his revisionist view of nuisance law's historical achievements.