Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse

Table of Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Challenge of Crisis and Catastrophe in Law and Politics 1 Austin Sarat • Javier Lezaun 1 Crisis and Catastrophe in Science, Law, and Politics: Mapping the Terrain 19 Peter H. Schuck 2 The Real Third Rail of American Politics 60 Michele Landis Dauber 3 New Orleans Everywhere: Bureaucratic Accountability and Housing Policy after Katrina 83 Susan M. Sterett 4 Emergency Management and the Courts in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina 116 Thomas A. Birkland 5 Environmental Right-to-Know and the Transmutations of Law 146 Kim Fortun 6 Reintegration, or the Explosive Remnants of War 172 Peter Redfield • Edward B. Rackley Notes on Contributors 193 Index 195 ...