Environment, Law, and History

Dan Farber recently posted on the subject at Legal Planet . Here's part of what he had to say: No doubt we could design a more effective...

John Day River, Oregon Michael Blumm and Max Yoklic recently posted "The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act at 50: Overlooked Watershed Pro...

Richard Frank recently posted at Legal Planet on the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the US Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Some excerpt...

It's 50 years since the Torrey Canyon  oil spill off the coast of Cornwall , one of the worst oil spills ever. The disaster led to a s...

(courtesy Old Merthyr Tydfil ) Friday marked the 50th anniversary of the horrific Aberfan disaster, in which a mountain of coal waste bu...

To mark the 100th anniversary of what New York's 1916 zoning ordinance, arguably the world's first, yesterday's New York Times  ...

Jim Salzman recently posted "Lessons from Flint" at Legal Planet, giving us some historical (and literary) perspective. An excerp...

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

Yesterday's edition of This Day in Water History  notes the anniversary of a historic interstate lawsuit over water pollution, Missouri ...

According to Michael McGuire at  This Day in Water History , today is the 116th anniversary of US Vice President Garrett Hobart's death....

The blog This Day in Water History  notes that today is the 105th anniversary of the abolition of the "common cup" by New Yor...

King John hunting, from Statutes of England (14th century) Much has been written recently on Magna Carta, now celebrating its 800th ...

Mono Lake   continues to inspire scholarship , with Erin Ryan recently posting "The Public Trust Doctrine, Private Water Allocation, an...

Slate recently published a piece by James Salzman marking the 40th anniversary of the US Safe Drinking Water Act . Salzman writes: Prior t...

A favorite of environmentalists, environmental law professors, and students is the California Supreme Court's 1983 decision in the Mono...

Tomorrow is the 41st anniversary of the Chilean  coup d'état in which a military junta with Augusto Pinochet at its head overthrew the g...

The 50th anniversary of the US Wilderness Act of 1964 continues to spark interest. H-Environment recently posted a review by Sarah Mittlefe...

Holly Doremus at Legal Planet reminds us that last week was the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Yosemite Grant Act . Doremus ...

Lewis & Clark Law School has posted the papers and presentations, along with recordings of the sessions, from its recent "Wildernes...

Over at Legal Planet, Richard Frank writes : December 19th marks a sad event in American environmental history.  It was 100 years ago toda...