What's Law Got to Do With It: Sociolegal Perspectives
Mon. 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Centennial E
Law is often invoked as a solution to disaster, yet sociolegal perspectives are only occasionally applied. Disaster can be a mechanism for analyzing what people do with law, and what it means. Law has been used to demarcate disaster and limit or expand claims. Legal solutions may serve as symbolic and formal closures to disaster, ignoring what many experience. This panel will discuss these dynamics as well as legal strategies used by elites to expand definitions of disaster and how legal resources have been mobilized to make claims in disaster.
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