TY  - GEN
T1  - Law and Mourning
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A2  - Umphrey, Martha Merrill
A2  - Douglas, Lawrence
A2  - Sarat, Austin
LA  - English
PP  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1007992950
AB  - "[This book] 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 demarcation of the boundary between life and death, defines what we can and cannot do with the remains of the dead, and creates both privileges and disabilities for survivors. The contributors to the volume also explore how mourning generates critiques of existing legal and political orders which seem compelled by calls from the dead, unleashing an indifference to legal consequences in survivors that can undermine or destroy law." -- Publisher's website.
OP  - 177
CN  - GT3390 .L38 2017
SN  - 9781613765302
SN  - 1613765304
SN  - 9781625342836 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 9781625342829 (hardcover : alk. paper)
SN  - 1625342829
SN  - 1625342837
SN  - 9781625342836
SN  - 9781625342829
KW  - Law : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Mourning customs : United States.
KW  - Deuil : Coutumes : États-Unis.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
KW  - LAW / Legal History
KW  - Law : Social aspects
KW  - Mourning customs
KW  - United States
ER  -