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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

LBJ's environmental legislation

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A recent issue of Federal History  has an article by Nancy Germano, "Negotiating for the Environment: LBJ's Contributions to the ...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Historical analysis in environmental law VI: What is at stake

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In the last couple of posts in this series I suggested several directions of inquiry for uncovering the history of environmental law. In thi...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Law in the Anthropocene? Maybe not

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Eric Biber recently posted a series at Legal Planet based on his recent  Georgetown Law Journal  article, "Law in the Anthropocene Epo...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Enclosure in Israel and Palestine

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In developments close to home, the latest issue of the New York Review of Books  has a review by Raja Shehadeh of Gary Fields's Enclosu...
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Sunday, January 21, 2018

Historical Analysis in Environmental Law V: What is to be done? Police, public health, statutory nuisances, planning and zoning, labor law, and literature

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In the last post in this series  I suggested looking at the histories of commons regulation, forest law, and 'police' to better unde...
Friday, January 19, 2018

The Knights of St. John and endangered species protection

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"Fungus coccineus Melitensis Typhoides" , from Paolo Boccone, Icones & Descriptiones rariarum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, ...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Historical analysis in environmental law IV: What is to be done? - The commons, forest law, and police

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At the end of  the previous post in this series  I argued that the history of environmental law remains in need of extensive work both in u...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Water law in Star Chamber

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‘A plotte of the landes about Ashebourne’, Derbyshire. 1556–1557 (Folger Shakespeare Library) One difficulty of English water-law histor...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Historical analysis in environmental law III: Winds of change

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In the previous post in this series  I discussed the seeming lack of interest of legal historians in environmental angles. Nonetheless, re...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Grotius and Kant on original community of goods and property

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The latest issue of Grotiana  (noted by Legal History Blog) has an article by Sylvie Loriaux, "Grotius and Kant on Original Community o...