Environment, Law, and History

The Journal of Global History  recently published Lena Joos's "‘Only One Earth’: Environmental Perceptions and Policies before the ...

I haven't posted in the last few weeks, leading my friends at the Legal History Blog to reasonably conclude that my series on Nature ver...

Jotwell recently ran a review by Angela Fernandez of Daniel P. Selmi's Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company...

In the last installment in this series we looked at how the English rule on escaping water in Rylands v Fletcher was rejected in British I...

Courtesy of ESCLH Blog: An upcoming conference (16-17 March) at Université d’Orléans on law and nature in the Middle Ages. Talks include Mar...

In previous posts in this series we looked at how courts dealt with the question of whether the common law rules of water law needed to giv...

Vincent Geloso and Félix Foucher-Paquin have posted "Weak States and the Commons: Fisheries and Economic Development in the Gaspesian P...

In the last posts in this series we looked at court decisions that discussed whether the ownership of rivers should follow the common law ...

Recently published in Water History,  Takahiro Endo's "The Kabu-ido system and factors affecting local groundwater extraction contr...

Bhanutpt, Krishna River In the previous post in this series , we looked at how nineteenth-century American courts debated whether the commo...