Legal institutions and collective memories / edited by Susanne Karstedt.
| Other author | Karstedt, Susanne. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., |
| Description | xvii, 409 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | OnĚati international series in law and society |
| 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. |
| Contents | Paying for past injustices and creating new ones : on property rights restitution in Poland as an element of the unfinished transformation / Grażyna na Skąpska -- Biographies, legal cases and political transitions / 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009499628 |
| ISBN | 9781841133270 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1841133272 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781841133263 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1841133264 (hbk.) |