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The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth. It will appeal to th

Law in the modern era is one of the most important of our society's technologies for preserving memory. In helping to construct our memory in certain ways law p

Law and the Politics of Memory: Confronting the Past examines law’s role as a tool of memory politics in the efforts of contemporary societies to work through

A major contribution to our understanding of present-day historical consciousness through a study of memory laws across Europe.