Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pain and Suffering as Facts of Legal Life - Austin Sarat
1. Suffering the Loss of Suffering: How Law Shapes and Occludes Pain - Linda Ross Meyer
Commentary: Taming Suffering - Meredith M. Render
2. The Ambiguous Standing of Suffering in Negligence Law - Gregory C. Keating
Commentary: Emotional Distress and the Victim’s Perspective - Alan L. Durham
3. Two Conceptions of Suffering in War - John Fabian Witt
Commentary: Personal Reflections on Professor John Fabian Witt’s “Two Conceptions of Suffering in War” - Stephen H. Hobbs
4. Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights - Cathy Caruth
Commentary: A Record but No Truth? Recording and Re-recording Trauma in the Real-Life Struggle for Civil Rights - Montré D. Carodine
5. Laws of Trauma - Jeannie Suk
Commentary: Knowing the Suffering of Others: A Commentary on Jeannie Suk’s “Laws of Trauma” - Bryan K. Fair
Contributors
Index