Legal institutions and collective memories
By: edited by Susanne Karstedt.
Contributors: Karstedt, Susanne.
Series: Oñati international series in law and society
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781841133270; 9781841133263
Subjects: Justice, Administration of; Criminal justice, Administration of; Reparations for historical injustices; Collective memory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unspeakable memories and commensurable laws / Stanley Cohen; title: An emerging "right to truth" : Latin-American contributions / Juan E. Mendez; title: Reflections on law and memory / Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch; title: Divided memories : how emerging democracies deal with the crimes of previous regimes / Heribert Adam; title: Common past, divided truth : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South African public opinion / Gunnar Theissen; title: From silence to testimony : the role of legal institutions in the restoration of the collective memories of Korean "comfort women" / Young-Hee Shim; title: Negotiating the past : culture industry and the law / Heinz Steinert; title: Australia's sorry judges : nationalism and collective memory / Kathy Laster; title: Experienced authenticity of culture and legal liberties / Arthur L. Stinchcombe; title: Constitutional interpretation after regimes of horror / Kim Lane Scheppele.; title: Paying for past injustices and creating new ones : on property rights restitution in Poland as an element of the unfinished transformation / Grażyna na Skąpska; title: Biographies, legal cases and political transitions /; title: Carol A. Heimer and Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Biographies and résumés as part of life under communist rule in the Czech Republic / Jiŕina Šiklová -- 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.