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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.
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