“When Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law,” by UNM Dickason Professor of Law Marsha Baum, was recently awarded an honorable mention for "a comprehensive treatment of weather and jurisprudence" by the Atmospheric Science Librarians International.
Photo: Marsha Baum
Published in 2007 by Praeger/Greenwood, “When Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law,” was the first book to discuss the interconnection between weather and the law in the United States in the context of specific cases, legislation and administrative legal action.
The Atmospheric Science Librarians International makes its award selection from all weather and atmospheric science books published in a given year. The competition recognizes excellence in three separate categories, with one choice and one honorable mention award in each category.
In 2006, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore also received an honorable mention for his book, “An Inconvenient Truth.”