Environment, Law, and History

Just out in Environment and History:   "Wild Blue: The Post-World War Two Ocean Frontier and its Legacy for Law of the Sea" by He...

Last year Environmental History published a review by Frederica Bowcutt of  Mexico’s Community Forest Enterprises: Success on the Commons an...

More on (transatlantic) commons scholarship : The editors of the International Journal of the Commons  (Frank van Laerhoven, Michael Schoon,...

In the last post we looked at how stadial thought reached modern commons thought through the worlds of colonial development and conservation...

In the last post in this series we saw how Enlightenment-era stadial thought was passed on to modern commons theory through the aboriginal...

In the last post in this series , we looked at the way early modern "stadial theory" connected between stages of civilization and ...

Next to last in our series on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the previous post, on Carol Rose's article, is here ) is Gi...

Next up in the series of posts on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the last post is here ) is the article of my co-editor for ...

Next in our series on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the last post is here ) is Michel Morin's "Indigenous Peoples,...

Next in the series of posts (the last one is here ) on "The Tragedy at 50" (by the way, if anyone wants a hard copy of the jour...

As promised, I'm going to post on some of the articles that were published as part of the issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law  on ...

Last June we held a conference at TAU Law to explore the history of commons thought:  The Tragedy of the Commons at 50: Context, Precedents,...

An issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50" that I am co-editing should be out in a couple of ...

At the end of  the previous post in this series  I argued that the history of environmental law remains in need of extensive work both in u...

(Continuing  the series on water rights :) The question of how and why water has been governed by regimes of private, public, and common p...

Vallée de La Loue - ©CRT de Franche-Comté H-Environment just published a roundtable review of  Kieko Matteson's   Forests in Revolut...

Update: the published papers from this conference are available here A call for papers for a conference and journal issue I'm organizing...

The University of Washington Press recently published Kurkpatrick Dorsey's Whales and Nations:   Environmental Diplomacy on the High Sea...

As H-Environment is re-posting all their old roundtable reviews, we'll be noting some of them here. Today I'd like to note the rich...

I’d like to thank David Schorr for inviting me to post my thoughts on teaching law and environmental history, and for his work in developin...