Environment, Law, and History

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

Jack Whiteley recently posted "Property in Wolves", forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review. The abstract: From colonial times unti...

Pieter Serwouters,  Wolf hunting (1642) The journal Environment and History  just posted an article by Kristiaan Dillen, "The Various R...

A recent issue of Diplomatic History published an article by Masaru Nishikawa, "The Origin of the U.S.–Japan Dispute over the Whaling M...

The latest issue of the Journal of Environmental Law  has an interesting piece by Ben Pontin, "The Constitutive Tension Between Public ...

Sorry for the long silence! I just got April's Environmental History in the mail, and there's an interesting article by Keith Pluyme...

The US Library of Congress's online Herencia collection , containing royal decrees, papal bulls, legal opinions, judgments, and royal or...

The Qianlong Emperor Hunting Hare,  by Giuseppe Castiglione (1755) Last year Inner Asia  published Khohchahar Chulu's "The Fo...

The American Historical Review  recently published Miranda Johnson's "The Case of the Million-Dollar Duck: A Hunter, His Treaty, an...

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

Ecology Law Quarterly  recently published a student note by Emma Hamilton, "A Relic of the Past or the Future of Environmental Crimin...

So (as Ann Wilson sang), the first post in the digital library of historical environmental law series is on  A New Treatise on the Laws for ...

In the last couple of posts in this series I suggested several directions of inquiry for uncovering the history of environmental law. In thi...

Daniel James Carr recently posted "The Historical Development of Animal Welfare Law in Nineteenth Century Scotland" . The abstract...

A little while back AJIL Unbound published a piece by Mathilde Cohen, "Animal Colonialism: The Case of Milk" . The abstract: Gre...

Angela Fernandez recently published a review of Robert Deal's The Law of the Whale Hunt: Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American...

Whanganui River H-Law's World Legal History Blog published this week Debjani Bhattacharyya's post, "Being, River: The Law, ...

Following yesterday's post on medieval forest law , today's is on the other article from that  William & Mary Bill of Rights Jou...

from  Livre de la Chasse Moving from forests in Mexico to English forests, the latest issue of the William & Mary Bill of Rights Jou...

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...