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Law and catastrophe / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
- Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
- The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought Law and catastrophe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--Law and legislation.
- Disasters.
- Disaster relief--Law and legislation.
- Disaster relief.
- Industrial accidents--Law and legislation.
- Industrial accidents.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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].
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6834-X
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