Environment, Law, and History

Dotan Halevy recently published "Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine...

Just out in The Historical Journal  is "The Right to Life, the Right to Nature, and the Impact of Irish Land on Political Thought in th...

Political Geography recently published "Grabbing the commons: Forest rights, capital and legal struggle in the Carpathian Mountains...

Anna Price of the Library of Congress's In Custodia Legis  recently posted on the 150th anniversary of the creation of Yellowstone Natio...

A recent issue of Federal History  has an article by Nancy Germano, "Negotiating for the Environment: LBJ's Contributions to the ...

Eric Biber recently posted a series at Legal Planet based on his recent  Georgetown Law Journal  article, "Law in the Anthropocene Epo...

‘A plotte of the landes about Ashebourne’, Derbyshire. 1556–1557 (Folger Shakespeare Library) One difficulty of English water-law histor...

Dan Farber recently posted  at Legal Planet on the 35th anniversary of Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Commission , "the high-water mar...

Bixby Creek Bridge near Big Sur, California (Bill Lane Center for the American West) The issue of public beach access has played a major...

John Echeverria recently posted "Antonin Scalia's Flawed Takings Legacy" . The abstract: This essay offers a generally neg...

I just came across a review that I wrote and submitted a while ago for the Business History Review on Mark Kanazawa's Golden Rules: Th...

James May recently posted "Environmental Law Jurisprudence and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia's Legacy" . The abstract: ...

Continuing coverage of the special issue of Western Legal History on Southern California water : Tanis Thorne's contribution is "In...

Ivan Bilibin, Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga A while back we noted the LSA's honorable mention for of Ekaterina Pr...

Not a recipe for stew, but some of the elements of a US Supreme Court decision issued yesterday . Last month we noted John Eccheverria's...

Daniel Klerman recently published an edited collection,  Economics of Legal History (Elgar, 2015), which includes influential pieces on the...

John Echeverria's Takings Litigation blog recently (April 24) covered a surprising development in arguments before the US Supreme Court...

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

More on conflicts over property rights in German forests : February's Environment and History  had an article by Jeffrey Wilson, "...

Over at Legal Planet Jonathan Zasloff yesterday posted "A Hidden Property Gem From Justice Jackson" , in which he admires Jackson...