Lethe's law : justice, law and ethics in reconciliation / edited by Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christodoulidis, Emilios, editor.

Veitch, Scott, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconciliation (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; Portland, Ore. : Hart Publishing, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book offers a series of original essays by an international group of scholars whose work looks comparatively at law's attempts to deal with the past. Ranging from questions of criminal responsibility and amnesty to those of law's relation to time, memory, and the ethics of reconciliation, it is a sustained jurisprudential and philosophical analysis of one of the most important and pressing legal concerns of our time. Among its key concerns is that justice's demand on law has changed and, in the face of a divided and violent past, law is being called on to do the kind of work it ordinarily shuns. What this means for conventional understandings of law, as well as for the relation between law and politics in times of transition, is explored through a discussion of experiences from Eastern Europe and Germany, to South Africa, Israel, and Australia. The book thus provides a timely investigation of the nature of law and legal institutions in times of political and social change, and will appeal to a broad international audience including lawyers, political theorists, criminologists, and philosophers."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Criminal Law, Amnesty and Time; Part II. Justice Between Past and Future; Part III. Memory and the Ethics of Reconciliation; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610800728

9781472562326

1472562321

9781280800726

1280800720

9781847311825

1847311822

OCLC:

476036813