Environment, Law, and History

Yesterday's This Day in Water History provides some legal-historical background to the Flint water crisis (for more, see here and here ...

The next article from the special issue of Western Legal History  on Southern California water is Peter Reich's own "The All-Americ...

I recently noticed that the Lawbook Exchange catalog from a couple of years ago featured an interesting 1733 book on water law, with the ...

The special issue of Western Legal History I've been surveying also includes Jason Robison's article on the allocation of Colorado ...

Victor Flatt recently posted an interesting paper on the recent history of technology standards, "Technology Wags the Law: How Technolo...

The special issue of Western Legal History  we've been covering has an interesting survey of Norris Hundley 's work by Donald Pisan...

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

An issue always lurking around any historical study is finding the right scope, whether in terms of time, space, sources, methods, or whatev...

Legal History Blog noted yesterday the New York Times  review by Louis Bayard of David Randall's The King and Queen of Malibu: The True...

The journal  Western Legal History  (unfortunately not available online) recently published a special issue on Southern California water, in...