Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law

Trials of those responsible for large-scale state brutality have captured public imagination in several countries

Michael Curtis

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