Environment, Law, and History

The latest issue of Western Legal History  is dedicated to the topic of "Water", and I plan to post on a number of the pieces in ...

Devika Shankar's article on property in water and fish in India is now also a blog post at Past & Present. Shankar explains that her...

Charles W. Sterling III recently published "Connections Between Present-Day Water Access and Historical Redlining" in Environment...

The Grand Charter of the Escartons I was fortunate to be able to spend some time this summer along the Guisane River, in the area formerly k...

As protests continue to erupt in Israel over the government's proposal to oust the power of courts to review decisions of the governmen...

I haven't posted in the last few weeks, leading my friends at the Legal History Blog to reasonably conclude that my series on Nature ver...

In the last installment in this series we looked at how the English rule on escaping water in Rylands v Fletcher was rejected in British I...

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...

In the last posts in this series we looked at court decisions that discussed whether the ownership of rivers should follow the common law ...

Recently published in Water History,  Takahiro Endo's "The Kabu-ido system and factors affecting local groundwater extraction contr...

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...

A few months ago the NYU Law Review  published an article by Vanessa Casado Pérez and Yael R. Lifshitz, "Natural Transplants" . Th...

A little while back I published "Nature Versus the Common Law: Nature as a Norm in the Water Law of the British World" in the Fre...

The latest issue of the  Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international  has an article by Fekade...

The latest issue of the International Journal of the Commons  has an article by Steven M. Smith, "Dynamics of the Legal Environment and...

I have some objections to a recent post by Dan Farber at Legal Planet, "Learning to Name Environmental Problems" .  Farber raises ...

Posted recently to International Law Reporter, a nomination by Gail Lythgoe for the most interesting, important, or influential article or b...

Over at Legal Planet, Dan Farber recently posted on "The Supreme Court’s Earliest Pollution Cases" . Farber writes: Well over a ce...

I'm happy to report that my article,   "Horizontal and vertical influences in colonial legal transplantation: water by-laws in Brit...