Law and memory towards legal governance of history
Legal governance of memory has played a central role in establishing hegemony of monumental history, and has forged national identities and integration processes in Europe and beyond. In this book, a range of contributors explore both the nature and role of legal engagement into historical memory in...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : memory laws : mapping a new subject in comparative law and transitional justice / Vladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias
- The United Nations Human Rights Committee's view of the past / Antoon De Baets
- The role of international criminal tribunals in shaping the historical accounts of genocides / Marina Aksenova
- The "right to truth" in international law : the "last utopia" / Patricia Naftali
- Kononov v. Latvia as the ontological security struggle over remembering the second world war / Maria Mälksoo
- Testing the "uniqueness" : denial of the holocaust vs denial of other crimes before the European Court of Human Rights / Paolo Lobba
- Legislating history : the European Union and the denial of international crimes / Luigi Cajani
- Challenging historical facts and national truths : an analysis of cases from France and Greece / Ioanna Tourkochoriti
- Legal silences and the memory of Francoism in Spain / Alfons Aragoneses
- Politics of public knowledge in dealing with the past : post-communist experiences and some lessons from the Czech Republic / Jirí Pribán
- Adjudication in Latvian deportation cases : references to international law / Leva Miluna
- Judging the conducator : fascism, communism, and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania / Cosmin Sebastian Cercel
- Dealing with the past in and around the fundamental law in Hungary / Miklós Könczöl
- On the politics of resentment, mis-memory, and constitutional fidelity : the demise of the Polish overlapping consensus / Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz
- Defending Stalinism by means of criminal law : Russia, 1995-2014 / Nikolay Koposov
- Cutting the umbilical cord : the narrative of the national past and future in Ukrainian de-communization policy / Lina Klymenko
- Banning genocide denial : should geography matter / Robert A. Kahn
- "From banning nakba to bridging narratives" : the collective memory of 1948 and transitional justice for Israelis and Palestinians / Jeremie Bracka
- Historical revisionism and the settler state : the Canadian experience / Michael Morden
- Defense of democracy and the preservation of collective memory through criminal legislation : the challenges of reconciliation in Peru / Salvador Herencia Carrasco
- Epilogue : beyond "memory laws" : towards a general theory of law and historical discourse / Eric Heinze