Environment, Law, and History

Just out in the Journal of Policy History : Peter Siskind's "'Enlightened System' or 'Regulatory Nightmare'?: New...

In unusually good timing, following on last week's post on Roman water law , the Edinburgh Legal History Blog posted the other day on a...

Table IX of the Lex Irnitana – Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla (image: Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España, http://ceres.mcu.es)...

The Chilean water code of 1981 is often held up as a paradigm of private property in water . Thomas Miller Klubock's new article in Envi...

Legal History Blog recently published brief pieces by scholars visiting at Princeton's Davis Center this year, in which they wrote abou...

[I'm passing on this call for papers for a panel being organized for the next American Society for Environmental History meeting. Reader...

Dan Farber recently posted at Legal Planet on the environmental aspects US President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society". Fro...

Eric Ash's The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England (JHU Press, 2016) was rec...

Suncor oilsands mine near Fort McMurray (Todd Korol,  Toronto Star ) Though Israel's coming elections revolve around other issues (a...

The Qianlong Emperor Hunting Hare,  by Giuseppe Castiglione (1755) Last year Inner Asia  published Khohchahar Chulu's "The Fo...