Environment, Law, and History

The website of the Institut Heritage Studies has three reviews of the oddly titled (or translated)  40 Years World Heritage Convention: Popu...

After beginning the digital library of historical environmental law with works from the last few hundred years, we go back in time this w...

Title page of Jan Kochanowski’s Satyr albo dziki mąż (1564), a political satire in verse that criticized forest exploitation. (National D...

Restored perennial and season marsh and riparian forest at Wildlands Mitigation Bank, Placer County, California ( EPA ) The always inte...

This week's installment in the digital library of environmental law moves ahead to the twentieth century with Carl E. Geuther's Com...

A strange message hit my email inbox today, advertising an upcoming event hosted by an Israeli law school and a leading Israeli environmenta...

UC Davis recently hosted a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the California Air Resources Board . Richard Frank reports at Legal Pl...

Following up last week's post on Michael Lobban's piece on the British Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876 , the second work to be...

Barada River in Damascus Yehoshua Frenkel, a professor at University of Haifa and member of our local environmental history forum , rece...

One of the prices those of us who publish chapters in edited collections pay is that our writing often does not get the exposure it would we...