Download or read book Legal Institutions and Collective Memories written by Susanne Karstedt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians and others about how societies deal with their past has been constant and intensive. 'Legal Institutions and Collective Memories' situates the processes of transitional justice at the intersection between legal procedures and the production of collective and shared meanings of the past. Building upon the work of Maurice Halbwachs, this collection of essays emphasises the extended role and active involvement of contemporary law and legal institutions in public discourse about the past, and explores their impact on the shape that.