Author: Austin Sarat
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804768344
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Law and Catastrophe
Author: Austin Sarat
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804768344
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804768344
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE DE LEGISLATION INDUSTRIELLE
Author: PAUL JULES VICTOR PIC
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Internationales und Ausländisches Recht
Author: Internationale Vereinigung für Vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre zu Berlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library
Author: New York State Library. Law Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Burge's Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws Generally
Author: William Burge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State library: Subject Index Law Library
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Lois annotees, tables
Author: Mauritius
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description