Environment, Law, and History

Elisabeth Fontugne has posted " Dismantling the Exxon Valdez: How Misunderstanding One Maritime Accident Led to the Criminalization of ...

Muhammad Munir has posted " History and Development of the Polluter Pays Principle ", an article tracing the history of the often-...

Dan Farber has posted a review of Thomas McGarity's Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival  (Yale UP, 2013), ...

An important theme that somehow hasn't come up yet on this blog is the place of experts in the history of environmental law. The issue w...

WHEATS--aka  the Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science aka one of the most inspired acronyms on the h...

The spate of scholarship on the US Supreme Court interstate water apportionment case of Arizona v California  continues unabated (for earlie...

Kathryn Elizabeth Loncarich has posted "Nature's Law: The Evolutionary Origin of Property Rights" . The abstract: While the ...

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

Here's a paper that goes to the important historical question of how and why environmental legal norms are transplanted, diffused, recei...

The University of Denver Water Law Review  has posted a number of reviews of books on water law history topics .  Chris Stork reviews D...