Environment, Law, and History

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

Last August's Environment and History  had an article by Michele Campopiano, "Cooperation and Private Enterprise in Water Managemen...

In the last couple of posts in this series I suggested several directions of inquiry for uncovering the history of environmental law. In thi...

The Court of Aldermen and Common Council of the City of London (1780) Last week's  Reviews in History posted a review by Elly Robson...

Marco Island in 1964 (left) and present day (Michael Coleman) Slate recently published a piece by Henry Grabar, "The Lessons of Mar...

A few months ago we noted some of the environmental dimensions of Philip Hamburger's revisionist account of the history of administr...

from  Livre de la Chasse Moving from forests in Mexico to English forests, the latest issue of the William & Mary Bill of Rights Jou...

Though conservatism is today associated with anti-environmentalism (a trend with an interesting history ); see also here and here ), a grow...

I've long thought that the New Deal era doesn't get its rightful due as a critical phase in the history of environmental law. It see...

It turns out that not all legal historians think environmental history is interesting. Today's Reviews in History  has a review by Danie...

In last week's post on Cecil I didn't have time to do much more than copy an extract from the NY Times piece, but I think it's ...

[We have today a guest post from Paulo Eduardo Guimarães, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Évora and researcher ...

The latest Environment and History  has an article by Nitin Sinha, "Fluvial Landscape and the State: Property and the Gangetic Diara...

Agnar Sandmo has posted "The Early History of Environmental Economics" , an article surveying the thought of eighteenth- and ninet...

Environmental History 's "New Scholarship" section alerted me to James Longhurst's "The Sidepath Not Taken: Bicycles,...

January's issue of Environmental History  had an article by Andrew Wiese, "'The Giddy Rise of the Environmentalists': Corpo...

Over at Legal Planet, Dan Farber blogged yesterday about corporate welfare for oil through the US tax code : “There Will Be Blood” was the...

Nobel Prize-winning economist and law school professor Ronald Coase passed away earlier this month at the age of 102. Coase's 1960 ...