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Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence (2012)
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Pontin, B. (2012). Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence. Modern Law Review, 75(6), 1010-1036. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00935.x

Contrary to the leading studies of Brenner and McLaren, it is argued that nuisance law was consistently a robust constraint on polluting industrial enterprise during the industrial revolution. The defining nuisances of industrialisation were 'inter-n... Read More about Nuisance Law and the Industrial Revolution: A Reinterpretation of Doctrine and Institutional Competence.