Environment, Law, and History

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

Kunal Parker recently reviewed Elizabeth Popp Berman, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (P...

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

For the Italian speakers among you (courtesy of the ESCLH blog): The Laboratory of Legal and Economic History at Università degli Studi ...

I missed this one a while back: The European Review of History  published Jan-Henrik Meyer's  "Who should pay for pollution? The OE...

A recent issue of Nature Climate Change carried an article by Jonas Meckling & Bentley B. Allan, " The evolution of ideas in global...

I've been participating in a great online series on the historical intersections of economic and environmental thought , organized by Tr...

Last year the Journal of Economic Perspectives  published "US Water Pollution Regulation over the Past Half Century: Burning Waters to ...

Meir Shamgar as a detainee in Eritrea, 1946 Friday saw the passing of one of the greats of Israeli law , former Justice and President of...

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

Next up in the series of posts on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the last post is here ) is the article of my co-editor for ...

Andy Seal at US Intellectual History Blog posted an interesting piece on William Cronon's extremely influential  Nature's Metropoli...

Next in the series of posts (the last one is here ) on "The Tragedy at 50" (by the way, if anyone wants a hard copy of the jour...

As promised, I'm going to post on some of the articles that were published as part of the issue of Theoretical Inquiries in Law  on ...

Thomas Aquinas (detail from Valle Romita Polyptych  by Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1400)) William Boyd recently posted  "Just Price, P...

Restored perennial and season marsh and riparian forest at Wildlands Mitigation Bank, Placer County, California ( EPA ) The always inte...

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

(Continuing  the series on water rights :) The question of how and why water has been governed by regimes of private, public, and common p...

The Journal of Policy History  recently published Linda Nash's "From Safety to Risk: The Cold War Contexts of American Environmenta...

Water Alternatives  recently published a review by Joe Williams of JJ Schmidt, Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Human...