Environment, Law, and History

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

Ella Hermon recently posted "Perspectives on the history of water management: ancient roots of modern approaches" . It's a ver...

We've written before ( here and here ) on Julian Juergensmeyer as an early scholar of environmental law in the United States. The  Journ...

The recent issue of the  Journal of Environmental Law has a review by Stephen Tromans of Richard Macrory's  Irresolute Clay: Shaping th...

The upcoming issue of Environment and History has an interesting, extended  review by Thomas Le Roux (translated from the original French  ...

H-Environment recently published a review by Samm Newton of Teresa Sabol Spezio's  Slick Policy: Environmental and Science Policy in the...

I've often expressed impatience  with the throwaway references to Justinian (often misconstrued as an adjective!) that are so ubiquit...

Richard Frank posted yesterday at Legal Planet on the 50th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill. Some excerpts: In many ways, howe...

A strange message hit my email inbox today, advertising an upcoming event hosted by an Israeli law school and a leading Israeli environmenta...

Over at Legal Planet Dan Farber recently blogged on "The Truth About Environmental Originalism" . Farber writes: Scott Pruitt ha...

Keith Hirokawa recently posted "Contextualizing the Roots of Environmental Law". The abstract: This review of Karl Boyd Brooks, ...

The recent Environmental History  has a review by Ted Steinberg of Robert Lifset's  Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Em...

Alongside the thread on early environmental law courses , people have been wondering about the first environmental law textbook. Today Peter...

Ansel Adams, William E. Colby  (from Carl P. Russell, One Hundred Years in Yosemite  (1947)) In a new twist on the search for the first ...

Continuing the thread on early environmental law courses , Prof. Arnold Reitze has kindly allowed me to post his recollections of his work a...

In an interesting twist in the discussion on the first environmental law course in the US , Richard Lazarus writes: When I decided to rese...

Spurred by Laurence Tribe's claim that he taught the first environmental law class in the US , an environmental law professor list recen...

Christopher Ahlers has posted "Origins of the Clean Air Act: A New Interpretation" , what should be another nail in the coffin of ...

Columbia Law School notes the recent passing of Professor Emeritus Frank Grad. Some excerpts from the press release : Born in Austria in ...

We've posted on the 1960s Storm King controversy before , and plan to do so again, soon. In the meantime, here's a notice ( by way o...