Environment, Law, and History

Dotan Halevy recently published "Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine...

Devika Shankar's article on property in water and fish in India is now also a blog post at Past & Present. Shankar explains that her...

As protests continue to erupt in Israel over the government's proposal to oust the power of courts to review decisions of the governmen...

I haven't posted in the last few weeks, leading my friends at the Legal History Blog to reasonably conclude that my series on Nature ver...

In the last installment in this series we looked at how the English rule on escaping water in Rylands v Fletcher was rejected in British I...

In previous posts in this series we looked at how courts dealt with the question of whether the common law rules of water law needed to giv...

In the last posts in this series we looked at court decisions that discussed whether the ownership of rivers should follow the common law ...

Bhanutpt, Krishna River In the previous post in this series , we looked at how nineteenth-century American courts debated whether the commo...

Just out in The Historical Journal  is "The Right to Life, the Right to Nature, and the Impact of Irish Land on Political Thought in th...

In a series of publications, most importantly her 2009 book, Chasing the Wind ,  Noga Morag-Levine has argued forcefully for distinguishing ...

As I mentioned in a post last week , the first topic covered in my article "Nature Versus the Common Law: Nature as a Norm in the Water...

A little while back I published "Nature Versus the Common Law: Nature as a Norm in the Water Law of the British World" in the Fre...

Recently published in Journal of Environmental Law : Ole Pedersen, "The Evolution and Emergence of Environmental Law Scholarship—A Pers...

I recently participated in the great Legal Histories of Empire conference that met in Maynooth, Ireland. There were a number of papers on en...

The latest  issue of the English Historical Review has an article by Matthew Kelly, "Habitat Protection, Ideology and the British Natur...

Last week I enjoyed attending on online event of the Asian Legal History Seminar, at which Devika Shankar presented her article, "Water...

It's been a while since I updated the "Digital library of historical environmental law" , so here's a new addition, connec...

H-Environment recently posted a review by Jay David Miller of Erin Drew's  The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in t...

I somehow missed this one from Ben Pontin: "A room with a view in English nuisance law: exploring modernisation hidden within the ‘text...

The recent issue of the  Journal of Environmental Law has a review by Stephen Tromans of Richard Macrory's  Irresolute Clay: Shaping th...