Environment, Law, and History

I recently participated in the great Legal Histories of Empire conference that met in Maynooth, Ireland. There were a number of papers on en...

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

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas recently published a review by Lorenzo Coccoli of Mario Ascheri's Rimedi contro le e...

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

October's Environmental History  had a review by Erik Loomis of Adam Tompkins's  Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns ...

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

The Court of Aldermen and Common Council of the City of London (1780) Last week's  Reviews in History posted a review by Elly Robson...

More on working-class environmentalism and the law (see, most recently, here ): Jacobin  recently ran a piece by Connor Kilpatrick claiming ...

Bevin Boys report for duty in 1943 ( Express ) The blog "ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly" earlier this week had an interesting po...

The connections between working-class environmentalism and environmental law is an understudied theme that I've had occasion to highligh...

I highly recommend reading a beautiful piece by Helen Macdonald just published in the New York Times Magazine, "In Search of Post-Bre...

courtesy Ohio Citizen Action A recent article by Craig Oren in the Environmental Law Reporter shows how history can help us understand ...

The Forest History Society awarded its 2016 Blegen Award for the best article on forest and conservation history to Erik Loomis for his  ...

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

The special issue of Western Legal History  we've been covering has an interesting survey of Norris Hundley 's work by Donald Pisan...

The relationship between trade and the environment is a fraught one; most recently it has been prominent in debates over the proposed Trans-...

Sarnia Chemical Valley, Ontario ( by P199 ) Last year we noted an article on American labor organizations and environmental regulation;...

Last year's Michigan Historical Review  published Rebecca Mead's "The Kawbawgam Cases: Native Claims and the Discovery of Iron ...

Legal Planet's Jonathan Zasloff recently noted the publication of Josiah Rector's "Environmental Justice at Work: The UAW, the...

Edward D. Melillo's 2012  American Historical Review article, "The First Green Revolution: Debt Peonage and the Making of the Nitro...