Law and Mourning Sarat Douglas Umphrey Paperback MP–MAS Uni of Massachusetts

Law and Mourning\nby Austin Sarat\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Austin Sarat\nTitle: Law and Mourning\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Family law\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781625342836\nISBN-10: 1625342837\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLaw and Mourning 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. At the same time, law creates a regulatory framework for death as it establishes the necessity for a clear de.