Environment, Law, and History

The Cigarette: A Political History (Harvard UP, 2019) by Sarah Milov, co-founder of this blog, was recently reviewed by Reuel Schiller f...

Pollution in China (credit: Anjali aisha ) Just appearing online in Environment and History  is an artcile by Yun Liu, "Voices of P...

Dan Ernst (Georgetown Law) regularly posts a long exam question from his legal history course at Legal History Blog. This year's questi...

This past Monday's  colloquium on the legal history of epidemics  went well, I thought. The speakers (Mario Ascheri, Tamara Morsel-Eise...

(Update:  Video of the colloquium here .) Next Monday, 25 May, the David Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History at Tel Avi...

Ely Cathedral and the fens A new article by John Collins in Past & Present , "The Long Parliament and the Law of Necessity in S...

Thank you to everyone who's assisted in putting together the list of sources on the legal history of epidemics ; this is an ongoing proj...

I've been busy with other things for a while and haven't had a chance to post, but I've just put up the first draft of a list of...

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

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...