Environment, Law, and History

Sarah Krakoff recently posted a critical take on Edward Abbey on Environmental Law Prof Blog. Some highlights: Abbey’s love-letters to Ut...

A while back we noted an H-Environment roundtable on Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sun...

[A guest book review from Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith:] In the newest addition to the Studies in American Politics series from Princeton Un...

Peter Reich recently posted an English-language abstract for his "Water Rights in the Mexican Supreme Court during the Postrevolutionar...

Last June we held a conference at TAU Law to explore the history of commons thought:  The Tragedy of the Commons at 50: Context, Precedents,...

“Roast Yard no. 2” in Copper Cliff (c. 1903), providing a good idea of the damage the heap roasting inflicted on the local environment (Ci...

The Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law recently published an extended review  by Michael Blumm of Douglas Brinkley's Rightful Her...

Slate's Issac Chotiner recently interviewed Eliza Griswold on her new book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of Amer...

[Second and final part of a guest post by Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith - Part I is here .] The second point to take away from Arch’s book is...

Today's "This Day in Water History" has this: Judson Harmon, c. 1912 June 11, 1895: First day of tenure of Judson Harmo...