Blameworthy Blazes: Rural Fire Lawsuits and the Modernization of California, 1850–1909

Marina Del Cassio is a Ph.D. student in the Stanford Department of History and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.  She is currently working on a legal and cultural history of wildfire and land burning in long-nineteenth-century California.  Her interests more broadly lie in American legal history, indigenous history, environmental history, and history of capitalism.  Before coming to Stanford, she represented tribes and municipalities in environmental law matters and clerked at the Ninth Circuit and the California Supreme Court.