Courses

Law 315 - Topics in Legal History: Environmental Legal History

Readings and Student Comments

Sept. 13th Approaches to Legal and Environmental History

McLaren and Foster, "Hard Choices and Sharp Edges: The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon".

Wynn, ""Shall we linger along ambitionless?" Environmental Perspectives on British Columbia"

Sept. 20th Environment, Custom, and Tradition

Taylor, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

James Teit, "Origin of the Columbia River" and "Introduction to Salmon"

Cronin, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.

Sept. 27th Environment and State

Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

C. Harris, "The Making of the Lower Mainland"

Oct. 4th Custom, Class, and Conflict

Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act

Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World.

D. Harris, Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia.

Oct. 11th Custom, Commons, and Common Law

Cadigan, "The Moral Economy of the Commons: Ecology and Equity in the Newfoundland Cod Fishery, 1815-1855".

Neeson, "Coastal Commons: Custom and the Use of Seaweed in the British Isles c. 1700-1900".

Oct. 18th Land, Law, and the Economy

Hurst, Law and the Conditions of Freedom.

Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World

Land Proclamation (Sept. 15th, 1858)
Land Proclamation (Dec. 2nd, 1858)
Land Proclamation (Feb. 14th, 1859)
Land Proclamation (Jan. 4th, 1860)

Oct. 25th The Colonial State and the Fisheries

McEvoy, The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980

Thoms, "A Place Called Pennask: Fly-fishing and Colonialism at a British Columbian Lake".

D. Harris, "Indian Reserves, Aboriginal Fisheries, and the Public Right to Fish in British Columbia, 1876-82"

Nov. 1st Common Law, Statutory Regulation, and Water

Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860.

Rose, Property and Persuasion: Essays on History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownership.

Clark, "Water, Private Rights and the Rise of Regulation: Riparian Rights of Use in British Columbia, 1892-1939.