Environment, Law, and History

Richard Frank posted yesterday at Legal Planet on the 50th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill. Some excerpts: In many ways, howe...

Legal Planet recently mentioned the University of Oregon's International Environmental Agreements Database Project . The project has a t...

Law and History Review recently carried a review by Jaakko Husa of John Haley's  Law's Political Foundations: Rivers, Rifles, Rice, ...

In the last post we looked at how stadial thought reached modern commons thought through the worlds of colonial development and conservation...

Dave Owen posted had  this interesting thought this week at Environmental Law Prof Blog, regarding a recent discussion on canonical enviro...

Historical articles on the commons keep coming. Victorian Studies  recently published an article by Daniel Stout, "Uncommon Lands: Publ...

In the last post in this series we saw how Enlightenment-era stadial thought was passed on to modern commons theory through the aboriginal...

Bill Kovarik recently posted at "Environmental history timeline" on a lawsuit against Exxon-Mobil , raising some interesting quest...

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...