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Friday, December 20, 2019

The Roman public trust doctrine

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I've often expressed impatience  with the throwaway references to Justinian (often misconstrued as an adjective!) that are so ubiquit...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Hartog on property in land and water

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Monk's Ditch in the Gwent Levels, Wales, land reclaimed in the Roman period As part of his stint as a guest blogger at Legal Histor...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

In memoriam: Meir Shamgar

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Meir Shamgar as a detainee in Eritrea, 1946 Friday saw the passing of one of the greats of Israeli law , former Justice and President of...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

NEPA and executive power

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During these days of executive/legislative tension in the US, the Journal of Policy History recently published John Hart's "The Nat...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Yom Kippur, Maimonides and greenhouse gas regulation

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Tonight and tomorrow are the Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In a recent debate about Israeli climate change policy...
Friday, October 4, 2019

A plea for more historical awareness in environmental law

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The latest issue of Rechtsgeschichte  has a generous review by Jan-Henrik Meyer of my chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Legal History , ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Was the Lochner Court pro-environmental?

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Justices of the US Supreme Court, c. 1925 In a recent post at Legal Plane t, Dan Farber writes about "pro-environmental" de...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

Molecular bureaucracy

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The latest issue of Environmental History  has an article by Evan Hepler-Smith, "Molecular Bureaucracy: Toxicological Information and E...
Friday, August 2, 2019

The Adirondacks in the seventies

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Just out in the Journal of Policy History : Peter Siskind's "'Enlightened System' or 'Regulatory Nightmare'?: New...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Water and Waterways Management in the Roman Empire Workshop

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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...