Environment, Law, and History

As summer bakes Jerusalem and flights are indefinitely suspended, thoughts of Italy's Cadore region, discussed in Giacomo Bonan's  T...

The Historical Journal  recently published James Greenhalgh's "The Control of Outdoor Advertising, Amenity, and Urban Governance in...

The US Library of Congress's online Herencia collection , containing royal decrees, papal bulls, legal opinions, judgments, and royal or...

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...