Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse

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Author: Austin Sarat

ISBN-10: 1558497382

ISBN-13: 9781558497382

Category: United States Law - General & Miscellaneous

Evaluates the impact of catastrophic events on social institutions.

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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: The Challenge of Crisis and Catastrophe in Law and Politics Austin Sarat Javier Lezaun 11 Crisis and Catastrophe in Science, and Politics: Mapping the Terrain Peter H. Schuck 192 The Real Third Rail of American Politics Michele Landis Dauber 603 New Orleans Everywhere: Bureaucratic Accountability and Housing Policy after Katrina Susan M. Sterett 834 Emergency Management and the Courts in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Thomas A. Birkland 1165 Environmental Right-to-Know and the Trasmutations of Law Kim Fortun 1466 Reintegration, or the Explosive Remnants of War Peter Redfield Edward B. Rackley 172Notes on Contributors 193Index 195