327 Pages
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Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
317 Pages
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Routledge
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Trials of those responsible for large-scale state brutality have captured public imagination in several countries. Prosecutors and judges in such cases, says Osiel, rightly aim to shape collective memory. They can do so hi ways successful as public spectacle and consistent with liberal legality. In defending this interpretation, he examines the Nuremburg and Tokyo trials, the Eicnmann... Read more
I: How Prosecution Assists Collective Memory and How Memory Furthers Social Solidarity; Introduction; 1: Crime, Consensus, and Solidarity; 2: Solidarity Through Civil Dissensus; II: Legal S haping of Collective Memory : Six Obstacles; 3: Defendants’ Rights, National Narrative, and Liberal Memory; 4: Losing Perspective, Distorting History; 5: Legal Judgment As Precedent and Analogy; 6: Breaking with the Past, Through Guilt and Repentance; 7: Constructing Memory with Legal Blueprints?; 8: Making Public Memory, Publicly; Conclusion
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Michael Curtis
