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Selecting the memory, controlling the myth
(Routledge, 2017-07-20)
Notwithstanding age-old aspirations to ground law in rational thought, the constitutive role of myth perennially resurfaces. Political mythology is always a reconstruction of historical memory, and that process becomes ...
Beyond ‘memory laws’: Towards a general theory of law and historical discourse
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
There are countless ways in which law shapes public awareness of history. The current concept of ‘memory laws’ denotes only a small subset, and even that concept breaks down into several types. We must distinguish, for ...