Legal Institutions and Collective Memories

Book Overview

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 emphasises the extended...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841133272
• ISBN13: 9781841133270
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"