Environment, Law, and History

The Public Domain Review  recently posted  (courtesy of archive.org) a fascinating and entertaining animated short from 1956 by the American...

Douglas Kysar recently posted "The Public Life of Private Law: Tort Law as a Risk Regulation Mechanism" , which, among other thing...

New Book Network recently posted an interview with Eric Ash about his new book, The Draining of the Fens:  Projectors, Popular Politics, an...

Water filtration plant at Lake Montebello, Maryland, 1915 This Day in Water History recently posted a Municipal Journal and Engineer  ar...

The McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law recently published an article by Jamie Benidickson, "The Evolution of Canadian Water ...

This is the 500th post on this blog! Though I've just finished a series based on an article of mine , this seems like as good an oppo...

On Friday we discussed the place of French and American law in Privy Council water decisions , leading up to the seminal 1858 case of  Mine...

Yesterday I discussed why American water law may have been attractive to judges applying French law in Canada. Today we move the focus back...

Yesterday I discussed the extensive use water law judicial decisions in the courts of Lower Canada, with its pre-revolutionary French proper...

Continuing where yesterday's post left off: Canada’s broad St. Lawrence River and its tributaries were the sites of intensive water u...