Legal Institutions and Collective Memories

Introduction: The Legacy of Maurice Halbwachs SUSANNE KARSTEDT
Part I: 'The Truth and Nothing but the Truth': Truth and Justice between the Past and the Present
1. Unspeakable Memories and Commensurable Laws STANLEY COHEN
2. An Emerging 'Right to Truth': Latin-American Contributions JUAN E MENDEZ
Part II: Divided Memories, Contested Truths, Silenced Voices
3. Reflections on Law and Memory EMILIOS CHRISTODOULIDIS AND SCOTT VEITCH
4. Divided Memories: How Emerging Democracies Deal with the Crimes of Previous Regimes HERIBERT ADAM
5. Common Past, Divided Truth: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South African Public Opinion GUNNAR THEISSEN
6. From Silence to Testimony: The Role of Legal Institutions in the Restoration of the Collective Memories of Korean 'Comfort Women' YOUNG-HEE SHIM
Part III: Law, Memory and the Politics of Culture and Identity
7. Negotiating the Past: Culture Industry and the Law HEINZ STEINERT
8. Australia's Sorry Judges: Nationalism and Collective Memory KATHY LASTER
9. Experienced Authenticity of Culture and Legal Liberties ARTHUR L STINCHCOMBE
Part IV: Creating and Restituting Rights after Abusive Regimes: Bridges between the Past and the Future
10. Constitutional Interpretation after Regimes of Horror KIM LANE SCHEPPELE
11. Paying for Past Injustices and Creating New Ones: On Property Rights Restitution in Poland as an Element
of the Unfinished Transformation GRAZ· YNA SKA?PSKA
Part V: The Stores of Memory: Files, Individual Biographies and Collective Memories
12. Biographies, Legal Cases and Political Transitions CAROL A HEIMER AND ARTHUR L STINCHCOMBE
13. Biographies and Résumés as Part of Life under Communist Rule in the Czech Republic JIR¿ INA SIKLOVÁ
14. The 'Stasi Records', the Public and Collective Memories: The Inspection of Personal Records ROGER ENGELMANN
15. The Art of Forgetting: The Communist Police State as a Non-reality ANDRZEJ ZYBERTOWICZ
Part VI: Failing Memory: The Law and its Past
16. The Loss of Early Women Lawyers from Collective Memory in Germany: A Memoir of Magdalene Schoch KONSTANZE PLETT
17. Putting the Nazi Past Behind: Juvenile Justice and Germany's Changing Political Culture RUTH G HERZ