Law and catastrophe / [electronic resource]
Sarat, Austin.
Douglas, Lawrence.
Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2007.
"The essays in this book were ... presented as a seminar series at Amherst College during the 2003-2004 academic year ... financial support provided by the College's Charles Hamilton Houston Forum on Law and Social Change."--P. [vii].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Jurisprudence of catastrophe : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, Martha Umphrey -- Catastrophe : plowing up the ground of reason / Linda Ross Meyer -- Catastrophes and humanitarian corporate responsibility : a conceptual critique / Ronen Shamir -- Political catastrophe and liberal legal desire : two stories of revolution, remediation, and return from the French nineteenth century / Sylvia Schafer -- Committed to memory : Rebecca West's Nuremberg / Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman -- Mandating the national memory of catastrophe / James E. Young.
"The essays in this book were ... presented as a seminar series at Amherst College during the 2003-2004 academic year ... financial support provided by the College's Charles Hamilton Houston Forum on Law and Social Change."--P. [vii].
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Disasters
Disaster relief
Industrial accidents
Social responsibility of business.
Disasters.
Disasters
Disaster relief
Industrial accidents
Social responsibility of business
Disasters
Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative