Law and catastrophe
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey
Contributors: Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Series: The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780804756839
Subjects: Disasters -- Law and legislation; Disaster relief -- Law and legislation; Industrial accidents -- Law and legislation; Social responsibility of business; Disasters
Description: "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].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: A jurisprudence of catastrophe : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, Martha Merrill Umphrey; title: Catastrophe : plowing up the ground of reason / Linda Ross Meyer; title: Catastrophes and humanitarian corporate responsibility : a conceptual critique / Ronen Shamir; title: Political catastrophe and liberal legal desire : two stories of revolution, remediation, and return from the French nineteenth century / Sylvia Schafer; title: Committed to memory : Rebecca West's Nuremberg / Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman; title: Mandating the national memory of catastrophe / James E. Young