Legal institutions and collective memories / edited by Susanne Karstedt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unspeakable memories and commensurable laws / Stanley Cohen -- An emerging "right to truth" : Latin-American contributions / Juan E. Mendez -- Reflections on law and memory / Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch -- Divided memories : how emerging democracies deal with the crimes of previous regimes / Heribert Adam -- Common past, divided truth : the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South African public opinion / Gunnar Theissen -- From silence to testimony : the role of legal institutions in the restoration of the collective memories of Korean "comfort women" / Young-Hee Shim -- Negotiating the past : culture industry and the law / Heinz Steinert -- Australia's sorry judges : nationalism and collective memory / Kathy Laster -- Experienced authenticity of culture and legal liberties / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Constitutional interpretation after regimes of horror / Kim Lane Scheppele -- Paying for past injustices and creating new ones : on property rights restitution in Poland as an element of the unfinished transformation / Grażyna na Skąpska -- Biographies, legal cases and political transitions / Carol A. Heimer and Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Biographies and résumés as part of life under communist rule in the Czech Republic / Jiŕina Šiklová -- The "Stasi records," the public and collective memories : the inspection of personal records / Roger Engelmann -- The art of forgetting : the communist police state as a non-reality / Andrzej Zybertowicz -- The loss of early women lawyers from collective memory in Germany : a memoir of Magdalene Schoch / Konstanze Plett -- Putting the Nazi past behind : juvenile justice and Germany's changing political culture / Ruth G. Herz.