Law and Catastrophe

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]. 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. Edited By Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English