Rebecca McLennan
Rebecca McLennan is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on North America with an emphasis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. legal, social, and, in more recent years, environmental history. Her current book project, "The Wild Life of Law: The Bering Sea Crisis and the Legal Construction of Nature," brings environmental, legal, and international history together via a study of the conflict between the U.S., Britain, Canada,...See more
Rebecca McLennan is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on North America with an emphasis on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. legal, social, and, in more recent years, environmental history. Her current book project, "The Wild Life of Law: The Bering Sea Crisis and the Legal Construction of Nature," brings environmental, legal, and international history together via a study of the conflict between the U.S., Britain, Canada, Russia, and Japan over the legal status of the Bering Sea and its biota in the late nineteenth century. See less