Environment, Law, and History

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

Dan Ernst strikes again with an amazing exam question for his legal history course, this time on public health law in the US  (see  here  fo...

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

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

The Cigarette: A Political History (Harvard UP, 2019) by Sarah Milov, co-founder of this blog, was recently reviewed by Reuel Schiller f...

This weeks addition to the digital library of historical environmental law is Joshua Toulmin Smith's  The Laws of England Relating to P...

In the last post in this series  I suggested looking at the histories of commons regulation, forest law, and 'police' to better unde...

Water filtration plant at Lake Montebello, Maryland, 1915 This Day in Water History recently posted a Municipal Journal and Engineer  ar...

The law surrounding the health effects of tobacco are an important precedent for many environmental law issues (see here and here ). Now Mar...

Brian Tomasovic recently posted the abstract for his article "Soundscape History and Environmental Law in the Supreme Court" , ...

(courtesy The Age of Change ) Oreskes and Conway's Merchants of Doubt  shined a light on how industry employed scientists in recent ...

The last issue of Environmental History  has Stefania Barca's survey article, "Laboring the Earth: Transnational Reflections on the...