Environmental Law
Disaster’s Disciples
Posted Aug 1, 2008, 08:00 am CDT
By Arin Greenwood
Before he knew it, he found himself relocated and on the cutting edge of a new legal field.
“We went through the environmental law book but talked every week about Katrina,” say Verchick, who, along with his class, had been moved to Houston. “There was a lot to talk about.”
Their talk touched upon the numerous and varied post-Katrina legal issues that had affected all of their lives but that none of them had thought to connect: insurance, public benefits, civil rights, domestic relations, probate, indigence. But the more Verchick and his class talked, the more he realized they had inadvertently put themselves on the leading edge of the burgeoning area of disaster law.
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