1st Edition
Law, Time and Historical Injustices A Critical Analysis of Intuitive Judicial Reasoning
By Harison Citrawan
Copyright 2025
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a critical assessment of how judges reason in the adjudication of historical injustices.
The practice of adjudication in historical cases of injustice require that, in determining collective responsibility, judges impart meaning to past injuries. This book analyses the narrative mechanisms through which this meaning is produced. Focusing on three areas of adjudication–racial... Read more
Part I Transition, Trauma and Uncertainty 1. Transitory racial discrimination 2. Traumatic post-colonial extractivism 3. Uncertain climate crisis Part II An Epistemology of Historical Injustice Adjudication 4. Legal reasoning as a creative process 5. Historical injustice as temporal legal inquiry 6. Judicial intuition in time 7. Collective responsibility and law’s time-mindfulness
Biography
Harison Citrawan is a researcher at the Research Center for Law under the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency.
