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Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Environmental dispute resolution 4,500 years ago

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Fragment of the Stele of the Vultures, c. 2450 BCE The latest  Yearbook of International Environmental Law has an interesting contribution b...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Call for applications: Masters/Doctoral/Postdoctoral fellowship -- Water Law in Mandate Palestine

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This call is for a one-year or semester-long fellowship for a graduate student wishing to work on the history of water law in Israel/Palest...
Friday, January 4, 2019

Savagery, civilization, and property V: Colonial development and Neo-Malthusian conservationism

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In the last post in this series we saw how Enlightenment-era stadial thought was passed on to modern commons theory through the aboriginal...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Irrigation systems: Moors v British

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Erum Sattar recently posted "From the Moors to the New World: Lessons from Dynamic Water Sharing for a Colonial-Era System in the Indus...
Friday, May 18, 2018

The earliest boundary water treaty

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Figure 1:  Memorial cone of the Mesilim Treaty Thanks to Peter Sand for contributing this post! [Footnotes after the jump.] The Mus...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Property and water in Sasanian and early Islamic Iraq

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Last August's Environment and History  had an article by Michele Campopiano, "Cooperation and Private Enterprise in Water Managemen...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Irrigation rights in medieval Islam

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Barada River in Damascus Yehoshua Frenkel, a professor at University of Haifa and member of our local environmental history forum , rece...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Israeli (and Ottoman and Islamic) public trust doctrine

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Chapter heading from the Hebrew translation of the Mejelle by Frumkin Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz 's environment reporter,  recently wrote...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Hundley (and Pisani) vs. Worster

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The special issue of Western Legal History  we've been covering has an interesting survey of Norris Hundley 's work by Donald Pisan...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Islamic law and natural resources

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In an ecumenical spirit, following yesterday's post on Presbyterianism, today we note the recent publication in Environment and History ...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Water law at the UK Supreme Court

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Nandini Chatterjee recently posted at Imperial & Global Forum on an exhibition opening today at the UK Supreme Court in London, ...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Water law and conflict in Mandate Palestine

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As missiles fly overhead, I thought I'd post on something relevant to what's happening in my corner of the world. Though I'm not...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

French environmental protection

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H-Environment recently posted "Environmental Protection in a Light-Green Country" , Chris Pearson's review of Une protection d...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Colorado and Israeli water law

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If you'll be in the Denver area this week, you might be interested in the Colorado Water Congress Annual Convention , at which I'll ...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Environment at ASLH - Report

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I wasn't able to make it to all the environment-related papers at this weekend's annual meeting of the American Society for Legal Hi...