Author Description

Introduction: memory laws: mapping a new subject in comparative law and transitional justice / Vladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias -- The United Nations Human Rights Committee's view of the past / Antoon De Baets -- The role of international criminal tribunals in shaping the historical accounts of genocides / Marina Aksenova -- The "right to truth" in international law: the "last utopia" / Patricia Naftali -- Kononov v. Latvia as the ontological security struggle over remembering the second world war / Maria Mälksoo -- Testing the "uniqueness": denial of the holocaust vs denial of other crimes before the European Court of Human Rights / Paolo Lobba -- Legislating history: the European Union and the denial of international crimes / Luigi Cajani -- Challenging historical facts and national truths: an analysis of cases from France and Greece / Ioanna Tourkochoriti -- Legal silences and the memory of Francoism in Spain / Alfons Aragoneses -- Politics of public knowledge in dealing with the past: post-communist experiences and some lessons from the Czech Republic / Jirí Pribán -- Adjudication in Latvian deportation cases: references to international law / Leva Miluna -- Judging the conducator: fascism, communism, and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania / Cosmin Sebastian Cercel -- Dealing with the past in and around the fundamental law in Hungary / Miklós Könczöl -- On the politics of resentment, mis-memory, and constitutional fidelity: the demise of the Polish overlapping consensus / Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz -- Defending Stalinism by means of criminal law: Russia, 1995-2014 / Nikolay Koposov -- Cutting the umbilical cord: the narrative of the national past and future in Ukrainian de-communization policy / Lina Klymenko -- Banning genocide denial: should geography matter / Robert A. Kahn -- "From banning nakba to bridging narratives": the collective memory of 1948 and transitional justice for Israelis and Palestinians / Jeremie Brac