Environment, Law, and History

The latest issue of the International Journal of the Commons  has an article by Steven M. Smith, "Dynamics of the Legal Environment and...

Daniel Farber goes back to the history of American environmental law again in his recent Legal Planet post, "50 Years Ago: Environmenta...

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

Posted recently to International Law Reporter, a nomination by Gail Lythgoe for the most interesting, important, or influential article or b...

H-FedHist recently published a review by Bart Elmore ( recent recipient of the Dan David Prize ) of Gregg Coodley and David Sarasohn's ...

Just out in the Journal of Policy History : Peter Siskind's "'Enlightened System' or 'Regulatory Nightmare'?: New...

Legal History Blog recently published brief pieces by scholars visiting at Princeton's Davis Center this year, in which they wrote abou...

Dan Farber recently posted at Legal Planet on the environmental aspects US President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society". Fro...

Suncor oilsands mine near Fort McMurray (Todd Korol,  Toronto Star ) Though Israel's coming elections revolve around other issues (a...

The American Historical Review  recently published Miranda Johnson's "The Case of the Million-Dollar Duck: A Hunter, His Treaty, an...

Dan Farber recently blogged at Legal Planet on what has changed in environmental law since the first edition of his casebook, published in 1...

Next in our series on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the last post is here ) is Michel Morin's "Indigenous Peoples,...

Next in the series of posts on "The Tragedy at 50" (the last one is here ), we have Monica Eppinger's "Cold-War Common...

The website for the book The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump by James Morton Turner and Andrew C...

A while back we noted an H-Environment roundtable on Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sun...

[A guest book review from Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith:] In the newest addition to the Studies in American Politics series from Princeton Un...

The Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law recently published an extended review  by Michael Blumm of Douglas Brinkley's Rightful Her...

Slate's Issac Chotiner recently interviewed Eliza Griswold on her new book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of Amer...

The latest American Historical Review has a review by Neil Maher of Darren Speece's  Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transf...

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