Law and Memory

Uladzislau Belavusau is Senior Researcher in European Law at the T. M. C. Asser Institute (the Hague), Universiteit van Amsterdam. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Senior Researcher in Human Rights at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: memory laws: mapping a new subject in comparative law and transitional justice Uladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Gliszcyńska-Grabias; Part I. International Law: 1. The UN Human Rights Committee's view of the past Antoon De Baets; 2. The role of international criminal tribunals in shaping the historical accounts of genocides Marina Aksenova; 3. The 'right to truth' in international law: the 'last utopia'? Patricia Naftali; Part II. European Law (Council of Europe and European Union): 4. Kononov vs Latvia as the ontological security struggle over remembering the Second World War Maria Mälksoo; 5. Testing the 'uniqueness': denial of the Holocaust vs denial of other crimes before the European Court of Human Rights Paolo Lobba; 6. Legislating history: the European Union and the denial of international crimes Luigi Cajani; Part III. National Perspectives within European Union: 7. Challenging historical facts and national truths: an analysis of cases from France and Greece Ioanna Tourkochoriti; 8. Legal silences and the memory of Francoism in Spain Alfons Aragoneses; 9. Politics of public knowledge in dealing with the past: postcommunist experiences and some lessons from the Czech Republic Jiří Přibáň; 10. Adjudication in deportation cases of Latvia and international law Ieva Miluna; 11. Judging the conducător: fascism, communism and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania Cosmin Sebastian Cercel; 12. Dealing with the past in and around the fundamental law in Hungary Miklós Könczöl; 13. On the politics of resentment, mis-memory and constitutional fidelity. The demise of the Polish overlapping consensus? Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz; Part IV. Perspectives beyond European Union: 14. Defending Stalinism by means of criminal law: Russia, 1995–2014 Nikolay Koposov; 15. Cutting the umbilical cord: the narrative of the national past and future in Ukrainian de-communization policy Lina Klymenko; 16. Banning genocide denial – should geography matter? Robert A. Kahn; 17. 'From banning Nakba to bridging narratives': the collective memory of 1948 and transitional justice for Israelis and Palestinians Jeremie Bracka; 18. Historical revisionism and the settler state: the Canadian experience Michael Morden; 19. Defense of democracy and the preservation of collective memory through criminal legislation: the challenges of reconciliation in Peru Salvador Herencia Carrasco; Epilogue: beyond 'memory laws': towards a general theory of law and historical discourse Eric Heinze; Index.