Environment, Law, and History

In a series of publications, most importantly her 2009 book, Chasing the Wind ,  Noga Morag-Levine has argued forcefully for distinguishing ...

Recently published in the American Journal of Legal History  is William B Meyer's "Class, Conservation, and the Police Power in the...

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

At the end of  the previous post in this series  I argued that the history of environmental law remains in need of extensive work both in u...

A while back Environmental History  carried a review by Daniel Simberloff of Ian Rotherham's Eco-history: An Introduction to Biodiversi...

A while back I promised more on John Nolon's series on zoning's centennial , so here are some excerpts from his Part 3: "Zoning...

To mark the 100th anniversary of what New York's 1916 zoning ordinance, arguably the world's first, yesterday's New York Times  ...

Growing up in the DC suburbs , park police were just part of the scenery, like like ornamental cherry trees and squirrels. I never stopped t...

Garrett Power recently posted "Requiem for Regulation" , published recently in Environmental Law Reporter . From the article: B...

Not Even Past's Henry Wiencek recently reviewed Karl Jacoby's 2003  Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hid...

A little while back Noga Morag-Levine posted on "The History of Precaution" over at RegBlog. Her work on the topic is a good exam...

The latest Environment and History  has a very interesting article by Paul Warde, "Imposition, Emulation and Adaptation: Regulatory Reg...

I had the privilege of commenting earlier this week on a paper by Noga Morag-Levine on the historical roots of the differing approaches take...