The Remarkable Rise of ‘Law and Historical Memory’ in Europe: Theorizing Trends and Prospects in the Recent Literature
| Author | Aleksandra Gliszczyńska‐Grabias,Uladzislau Belavusau |
| Date | 01 June 2020 |
| Published date | 01 June 2020 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12228 |
The Remarkable Rise of ‘Law and Historical Memory’
in Europe: Theorizing Trends and Prospects
in the Recent Literature
Uladz islau Belavusau∗
and Aleksandra Gliszczy´
nska-Grabias∗∗
DEFENDING NAZIS IN POSTWAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA: THE LIFE OF
K. RESLER, DEFENCE COUNSEL EX OFFICIO OF K. H. FRANK by
JAKUB DRÁPAL
(Prague: Karolinum Press, 2018, 200 pp., £19.00)
COMMUNISTS AND THEIR VICTIMS: THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE IN THE
CZECH REPUBLIC by ROMAN DAVID
(Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, 280 pp., £69.00)
I. MEMORY LAWS AND MEMORY LAWYERS
In recent years, the fields of law and society and of comparative constitutional
and criminal law have been marked by the unprecedented blossoming of
literature addressing controversial memory laws in Europe. Such legal
developments have been unfolding nationalistic ways of shaping historical
narratives as well as a vivid articulation of the role of the legal profession
in the politics of memory.1This literature deserves special analysis, drawing
∗T. M. C. Asser Institute / University of Amsterdam, 20–22 R. J.
Schimmelpennincklaan JN, The Hague, 2517, the Netherlands
U.Belavusau@uva.nl
∗∗ Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy ´
Swiat 72,
Warsaw, 00-330, Poland
aggrabias@gmail.com
The authors would like to thank Katharine Booth for her assistance on this piece.
1 The authors of this article have themselves recently edited a volume offering a
normative framework for the conceptualization and study of memory laws and the
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