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portada Law and Catastrophe
Type
Physical Book
Year
2007
Language
English
Pages
184
Format
Hardcover
Weight
1
ISBN
080475683X
ISBN13
9780804756839
Edition No.
1

Law and Catastrophe

Austin Sarat (Author) · Stanford University Press · Hardcover

Law and Catastrophe - Austin Sarat

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Synopsis "Law and Catastrophe "

The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that will result from the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere. Terrorist experts and homeland security consultants struggle to prepare for a wide range of possible biological, chemical, and radiological attacks: aerated small pox virus spread by a crop duster, botulism dumped into an urban reservoir, a dirty bomb detonated in a city center. Yet, strangely, law's role in the definition, identification, prevention, and amelioration of catastrophe has been largely neglected. The relationship between law and other limiting conditions―such as states of emergency―has been the subject of rich and growing literature. By contrast, little has been written about law and catastrophe. In devoting a volume to the subject, the essays' authors sketch the contours of a relatively fresh, yet crucial, terrain of inquiry. Law and Catastrophe begins the work of developing a jurisprudence of catastrophe.

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