Environment, Law, and History

In previous posts in this series we looked at how courts dealt with the question of whether the common law rules of water law needed to giv...

“Roast Yard no. 2” in Copper Cliff (c. 1903), providing a good idea of the damage the heap roasting inflicted on the local environment (Ci...

One of the prices those of us who publish chapters in edited collections pay is that our writing often does not get the exposure it would we...

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

The law surrounding the health effects of tobacco are an important precedent for many environmental law issues (see here and here ). Now Mar...

This Day in Water History recently reproduced a 1916 article from the Municipal Journal: Three Sue City for Typhoid Deaths. Milwaukee, W...

Mitra Sharafi recently posted on the digital archive created by her and others at the University of Wisconsin on the 1984 Bhopal disaster...

(courtesy Old Merthyr Tydfil ) Friday marked the 50th anniversary of the horrific Aberfan disaster, in which a mountain of coal waste bu...

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...

Yesterday's This Day in Water History brings reports of two environmental lawsuits from the Municipal Journal of a century ago: Thre...

The recent Environmental History  has a review by David Stradling of Susan Rankin Bohme's  Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of ...

Yesterday's edition of This Day in Water History  notes the anniversary of a historic interstate lawsuit over water pollution, Missouri ...

Nuisance seems to be enjoying something of an academic renaissance. Lynda Margaret Collins recently posted "Evergreen? The Environme...

Thanks to Environmental History Resources we learned of a new contribution to the fraught topic of responsibility for historic carbon emissi...

That's the title of a piece by Nathaniel Rich in the New York Times Magazine . Rich writes: As the Mississippi shifted its course o...

George Conk recently blogged on the passing of epidemiologist Mervyn Susser, 92 . Susser wrote, among other things, on the problem of causa...

Today's post is on the relevance of history for current environmental law . Dan Farber recently posted "Responsibility for Historic...

Perhaps the most litigated environmental issue in US history is harm from asbestos. In the latest issue of Environmental Justice  James Rice...

Jay Feinman and Caitlin Edwards have posted an article on the history of manufacturers' liability, and area of law related to environmen...