Environment, Law, and History

A year ago we noted Jed Purdy's review of Jonathan Cannon's  Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court ...

"Salmon Fishing at Chenook" , James G. Swan, in The Northwest Coast; Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory,  1...

Black Squirrel, Stirling Ontario ( Robert Taylor ) Loren Michael Mortimer recently posted at Early Canadian History on bear and squirre...

(courtesy The Age of Change ) Oreskes and Conway's Merchants of Doubt  shined a light on how industry employed scientists in recent ...

Last week This Day in Water History reproduced a 1909 article from  Municipal Journal and Engineer , "Stream Pollution in America"...

In honor of zoning's 100th anniversary , John Nolon has been posting a multi-part series on the history of zoning at Land Use Prof Blog ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of what New York's 1916 zoning ordinance, arguably the world's first, yesterday's New York Times  ...

The Library of Congress webpage The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920  has quite a bit of legal material from the period: ...

Marco Casari and Maurizio Lisciandra recently posted "Gender Discrimination in Property Rights: Six Centuries of Commons Governance i...

“Sustainability is the key principle”—that’s how Bernhard Mittermüller describes the great Austrian Forest Act of 1975 in my latest v...