Environment, Law, and History

From Sydney Criminal Lawyers, on Lexology (via Legal History Blog): "The History of Laws Against Cruelty to Animals" . A particula...

The Journal for the History of Knowledge  recently published an article by Sebastian Felten, "Sustainable Gains: Dutch Investment and B...

The law of the Rhine River seems to be a fruitful topic (see  here  and  here ). The latest Water History  has an article by Jennifer Schi...

A while back Environmental History  carried a review by Daniel Simberloff of Ian Rotherham's Eco-history: An Introduction to Biodiversi...

A few months ago we noted some of the environmental dimensions of Philip Hamburger's revisionist account of the history of administr...

January 6 saw the passing of Wolfgang Burhenne, a key figure in post-war German and international environmental law, at age 92. A review b...

I recently noticed that the Lawbook Exchange catalog from a couple of years ago featured an interesting 1733 book on water law, with the ...

[Another guest post, with lots of useful references, by Peter Sand of the Institute of International Law, University of Munich (see  here...

Following Part III of this series , featuring the French Impressionists and Oscar Wilde, we move on to the twentieth century. Franz...

The recent issue of Environment and History  had a review by Charles Closmann of Jeffrey K. Wilson, The German Forest: Nature, Identity, an...

The latest Environment and History  has an article by Michael Zeheter, "Order in the Lake: Managing the Sustainability of the Lake Con...

Alongside the thread on early environmental law courses , people have been wondering about the first environmental law textbook. Today Peter...

A pernicious myth has it that environmental protection and conservation are a sort of upper-class conspiracy, or at the least a luxury ap...

The latest Law and History Review  has an article by Michael Hughes, " Rechtsstaat and Recht in West Germany's Nuclear Power Debat...

More on conflicts over property rights in German forests : February's Environment and History  had an article by Jeffrey Wilson, "...

In response to my desire to hear more about the water law treatises described in Mark Weiner's video, "Water, Paper, Law" , ...

We commented last year on Paul Warde's article on commons regulation in early modern Germany, which gave English readers a taste of th...

The latest Environment and History  has a very interesting article by Paul Warde, "Imposition, Emulation and Adaptation: Regulatory Reg...