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Legal Institutions and Collective Memories (Paperback)
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Legal Institutions and Collective Memories (Paperback)
Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society
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In recent decades, the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians,
and others about how societies deal with their past has been
constant and intensive. Legal Institutions and Collective Memories
situates the processes of transitional justice at the intersection
between legal procedures and the production of collective and
shared meanings of the past. Building upon the work of Maurice
Halbwachs, this collection of essays emphasizes the extended role
and active involvement of contemporary law and legal institutions
in public discourse about the past, and explores their impact on
the shape that collective memories take in the course of time. The
authors uncover a complex pattern of searching for truth,
negotiating the past, and cultivating the art of forgetting. Their
contributions explore the ambiguous and intricate links between the
production of justice, truth, and memory. The essays cover a broad
range of legal institutions, countries, and topics. These include
transitional trials as "monumental spectacles" as well as
constitutional courts, and the restitution of property rights in
Central and Eastern Europe and Australia. The authors explore the
biographies of victims and how their voices were repressed, as in
the case of Korean Comfort Women. They explore the role of law and
legal institutions in linking individual and collective memories in
the transitional period through processes of lustration, and they
analyze divided memories about the past and their impact on future
reconciliation in South Africa. The collection offers a genuinely
comparative approach, allied with cutting-edge theory. (Series:
Onati International Series in Law and Society)
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