Environment, Law, and History

Owen Smitherman has posted "History, Public Rights, and Article III Standing" , forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Publ...

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

The Boston Review  recently published Andrew Kahrl's "Free the Beach", an essay adapted from his  Free the Beaches: The Stor...

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...

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

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

"New" Jersey City reservoir, c. 1880 Yesterday's This Day in Water History posted an interesting story on a 1919 fine ...

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

Today we're fortunate to have an interesting guest post from Erin Drew , of the University of Mississippi English department: Sir ...

A few months ago we noted some blog posts on the decision of the US Supreme Court in  Horne v. Department of Agriculture, which seemed...

King John hunting, from Statutes of England (14th century) Much has been written recently on Magna Carta, now celebrating its 800th ...

Mono Lake   continues to inspire scholarship , with Erin Ryan recently posting "The Public Trust Doctrine, Private Water Allocation, an...

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

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recently decided a case, R (on the application of Newhaven Port and Properties Limited) v East Susse...

The October 2014 issue of Environmental History  has a lot of law in it. We'll start with Jonathan Wlasiuk's "A Company Town on...

A favorite of environmentalists, environmental law professors, and students is the California Supreme Court's 1983 decision in the Mono...

Earlier this week the great environmental law scholar Joseph Sax passed away, at age 78. Read the appreciation by Holly Doremus at Legal Pla...

A while back we re-posted George Conk's review of W. Jeffrey Bolster's award-winning  The Mortal Sea - Fishing the Atlantic in the A...

Michael Blumm and Mary Wood have posted Chapter 1 of their forthcoming  The Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental and Natural Resources La...