Lethe's Law: Justice, Law, and Ethics in Reconciliation

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Title Page......Page 3
Title verso......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Part I. Criminal Law, Amnesty and Time......Page 17
Introduction......Page 19
The Problems of Punishment......Page 20
Renouncing Criminal Proceedings......Page 21
Guilt......Page 24
Guilty Persons or Guilty Citizens?......Page 25
Neutralisation......Page 27
Guilt and Memory......Page 29
Conclusion......Page 30
Introduction......Page 33
Background to the Discussion......Page 34
The Amnesty Debate in Germany......Page 35
Conceptual Problems with Traditional Discussions of Amnesties......Page 39
Amnesty and Damnatio Memoriae......Page 43
3.  The Legal Politics of Amnesty......Page 49
There but for the Grace of Law......Page 51
Amnesty and Legal Reasoning......Page 53
4.  Time, Guilt and Forgiveness......Page 63
Stale Crimes: Differing Approaches......Page 64
Criminal Law, The Past and Guilt......Page 66
Reactive Attitudes in the Law......Page 70
Forgiveness......Page 73
Part II. Justice Between Past and Future......Page 79
5.  \"With the Benefit of Hindsight\": Dilemmas of Legality in the Face of Injustice......Page 81
The Case of Bram Fischer......Page 85
Dilemmas of the Rule of Law......Page 94
Truth, Memory and the Rule of Law......Page 98
Postcript......Page 102
6.  \"Nothing but the Truth\": the South African Alternative to Corrective Justice in Transitions to Democracy......Page 107
Truth and Justice......Page 108
Truth and Politics......Page 113
Truth as Process......Page 116
Truth as Product......Page 122
Conclusion......Page 128
Introduction......Page 131
Law\'s Time......Page 133
Law and Collective Memories......Page 134
Legal Institutions and Their New Tasks......Page 138
Remembering, Forgetting and Legal Institutions......Page 140
Quasi-Judicial Institutions and Transitional Justice......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 144
Introduction......Page 145
Institutional and Social Reconstruction......Page 147
Beyond Accountability......Page 148
Law\'s Constitutive Function and Its Limitations......Page 152
Law and Reconciliation......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 164
Part III. Memory and the Ethics of Reconciliation......Page 167
9.  Justice or Reconciliation? The Politicisation of the Holocaust in the Kastner Trial......Page 169
A Socio-Legal Binary Structure......Page 173
The Re-enactment of a Past Trauma in the Courtroom......Page 176
The Manipulation of the Legal Discourse of \"Truth\"......Page 182
Conclusion: Between Memory and History......Page 187
Introduction: Reconciliation as a Political Process......Page 191
Covering and Uncovering: The Ambivalence of Truth......Page 193
The Unconditionality of Reconciliation......Page 195
Virtual Reciprocity......Page 197
The Embarrassment of the First Person Plural......Page 200
Reconciliation and Law......Page 203
Introduction Contexts......Page 207
Problems......Page 211
Ideas......Page 215
12.  Law\'s Immemorial......Page 223
The Immemorial......Page 228
Memory, Time and the Law......Page 231
Law\'s Time......Page 233
The Example of Collective Memory......Page 236
Law\'s Immemorial......Page 238
Conclusion......Page 242
Index......Page 245