Legal institutions and collective memories / edited by Susanne Karstedt.

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Superior document:Onati international series in law and society
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Onati international series in law and society.
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Physical Description:xvii, 409 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Unspeakable memories and commensurable laws / Stanley Cohen
  • An emerging "right to truth" : Latin-American contributions / Juan E. Mendez
  • Reflections on law and memory / Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch
  • Divided memories : how emerging democracies deal with the crimes of previous regimes / Heribert Adam
  • Common past, divided truth : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South African public opinion / Gunnar Theissen
  • From silence to testimony : the role of legal institutions in the restoration of the collective memories of Korean "comfort women" / Young-Hee Shim
  • Negotiating the past : culture industry and the law / Heinz Steinert
  • Australia's sorry judges : nationalism and collective memory / Kathy Laster
  • Experienced authenticity of culture and legal liberties / Arthur L. Stinchcombe
  • Constitutional interpretation after regimes of horror / Kim Lane Scheppele.
  • Paying for past injustices and creating new ones : on property rights restitution in Poland as an element of the unfinished transformation / Grazyna na Skapska
  • Biographies, legal cases and political transitions / Carol A. Heimer and Arthur L. Stinchcombe
  • Biographies and resumes as part of life under communist rule in the Czech Republic / Jirina Siklova
  • The "Stasi records," the public and collective memories : the inspection of personal records / Roger Engelmann
  • The art of forgetting : the communist police state as a non-reality / Andrzej Zybertowicz
  • The loss of early women lawyers from collective memory in Germany : a memoir of Magdalene Schoch / Konstanze Plett
  • Putting the Nazi past behind : juvenile justice and Germany's changing political culture / Ruth G. Herz.