Law and Mourning

Herausgeber: Sarat, Austin; Umphrey, Martha Merrill; Douglas, Lawrence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with loss and its reverberations, channeling the powerful emotions associated with death and protecting those vulnerable to them.

Produktdetails

• The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781625342836
• ISBN-10: 1625342837
• Artikelnr.: 47299378

Autorenporträt

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and associate dean of faculty at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry and Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.