Environment, Law, and History

Bhanutpt, Krishna River In the previous post in this series , we looked at how nineteenth-century American courts debated whether the commo...

As I mentioned in a post last week , the first topic covered in my article "Nature Versus the Common Law: Nature as a Norm in the Water...

Rachel S. Gross recently reviewed Jeffrey K. Stine's  Green Persuasion: Advertising, Voluntarism, and America's Public Lands (Smit...

Dan Ernst (Georgetown Law) regularly posts a long exam question from his legal history course at Legal History Blog. This year's questi...

I've often expressed impatience  with the throwaway references to Justinian (often misconstrued as an adjective!) that are so ubiquit...

Historical articles on the commons keep coming. Victorian Studies  recently published an article by Daniel Stout, "Uncommon Lands: Publ...

Venetian aqueduct in Crete The latest issue of Water History  has an article by Yannis Spyropoulos, "Running water for the official...

In the common-law world, historical and legal argument are frequently intertwined, a phenomenon reflected in the title of this week's ad...

I recently came across Tapio Katko's Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspectives (Finnish Assn. of Water Utilities, 2016...

(Continuing the series on water rights :) Whatever property regime applies to water, the public often retains certain rights in the resour...

(Continuing the series on water rights :) The empirical work of Ostrom ( 1990 ; Ostrom and Gardner, 1993 ) and others on institutions for ...

(Continuing the series on water rights - the first installment was here .) Property in water takes a great variety of forms. Many countr...

"Diploma" of Frederick Barbarossa granting navigation rights to the monastery of San Carpoforo di Como (1159) I recently came ...

Robert Fischman recently posted "Wringing Wonder from the Arid Landscape of Law" . The abstract: Charles Wilkinson Charles W...

The latest Environmental History  has a review by David Rich Lewis of  The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin b...

Bears Ears National Monument designated by President Obama Following up Sunday's post on the Antiquities Ac t, I'd like to note ...

A recent issue of Environment and History  has an article connecting issues of conservation and race, Harald Witt's  "Indigenous Tr...

Chapter heading from the Hebrew translation of the Mejelle by Frumkin Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz 's environment reporter,  recently wrote...

Yesterday's "This Day in Water History" had the following historical editorial, including not only the record of enforcement ...

Legal History Blog noted yesterday the New York Times  review by Louis Bayard of David Randall's The King and Queen of Malibu: The True...