Environment, Law, and History

Devika Shankar's article on property in water and fish in India is now also a blog post at Past & Present. Shankar explains that her...

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" . An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Co...

Karen Tani  just completed a fascinating four-part series  at Legal History Blog on Guido Calabresi's particular form of law and economi...

ASOR (Ancient Near East Today) just put up a post by my editorial colleague, Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz:  "A Sea of Law: The Romans and Th...

Daniel Farber goes back to the history of American environmental law again in his recent Legal Planet post, "50 Years Ago: Environmenta...

I have some objections to a recent post by Dan Farber at Legal Planet, "Learning to Name Environmental Problems" .  Farber raises ...

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

Over at Legal Planet, Dan Farber recently posted on "The Supreme Court’s Earliest Pollution Cases" . Farber writes: Well over a ce...

Legal Planet's Richard Frank posted today on the US Clean Water Act's 50th birthday . An excerpt: The CWA as enacted a half-century ...

Dan Farber recently posted at Legal Planet  on "The Arkansas Origin of National Parks" . Farber writes: The origins of the nationa...

In Custodia Legis  recently carried an interesting post by Sayuri Umeda on the history of the elimination of leaded gas in Japan . Among oth...

 Over at  Legal Planet , Holly Doremus complains: California’s water law was developed in the 19th century. It has not been comprehensively ...

Anna Price of the Library of Congress's In Custodia Legis  recently posted on the 150th anniversary of the creation of Yellowstone Natio...

Dan Farber recently posted at Legal Planet on "Jim Crow and the Fossil Fuel Industry" : This being Black History Month, I thought ...

I recently posted a piece on H-Empire , based on my article, "Horizontal and vertical influences in colonial legal transplantation: wat...

Aurora australis, Milky Way, and flags at the South Pole (Martin Wolf, NSF) Sophia Guido recently posted "How the Antarctic Treaty of 1...

A recent post by Dan Farber at Legal Planet  discussed the issue of when climate awareness began to enter American law.  In "The Origin...

Richard Frank recently posted at Legal Planet  on "The Latest Chapter in Los Angeles’ Century-Long Water War With the Eastern Sierra’s ...

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...

Dan Ernst (Georgetown Law) regularly posts a long exam question from his legal history course at Legal History Blog. This year's questi...