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The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements (2013)
Journal Article
Pontin, B. (2013). The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements. Journal of Law and Society, 40(2), 173-198. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00619.x

This article examines the environmental benefits arising from compliance with common law nuisance injunctions during the British industrial revolution. It argues, based on the outcomes of industrial nuisance actions involving allegations of serious a... Read More about The common law clean up of the 'workshop of the world': More realism about nuisance law's historic environmental achievements.

Town mouse and country mouse: A fable for the twenty-first century (2013)
Journal Article
Pontin, B., & Smith, M. C. (2013). Town mouse and country mouse: A fable for the twenty-first century. Environmental Law and Management, 24(5), 223-224

An editorial article crticially examining an Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee decision concerning wind farms servicing towns and cities at the expense of rural landscapes from the pespectrive of a fable of Aesop.