Environment, Law, and History

In the last post in this series we saw how modern commons theory tracked many of the features of stadial theory. In this post I begin tryin...

Earlier this year Environmental History published Germán Vergara's "How Coal Kept My Valley Green: Forest Conservation, State Inter...

In the last post in this series , we looked at the way early modern "stadial theory" connected between stages of civilization and ...

Venetian aqueduct in Crete The latest issue of Water History  has an article by Yannis Spyropoulos, "Running water for the official...

(Part II of the series, Part I is here .) The second half of the eighteenth century saw the development, primarily in Scotland (though wit...

Dan Farber recently blogged at Legal Planet on what has changed in environmental law since the first edition of his casebook, published in 1...

To cap the series I've been doing on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the last post is here ), I'm going to post my ow...

California's Camp Fire, November 2018 Peter Reich recently posted "What Happened to Hispanic Natural Resources Law in Californi...

Next to last in our series on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the previous post, on Carol Rose's article, is here ) is Gi...

I'm reposting (with permission) an email I recently got from Jim Salzman (the picture is my own addition): We are writing to invite yo...