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Scales of Memory: Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil
This monograph explores how the constitutional courts in the United States, Germany, and South Africa have invoked slavery, Nazism, and apartheid - three historical evils - as an aid in constitutional interpretation. It examines how the memory of evil pasts moulds constitutional meaning in the contested present.
| Author(s) | By Justin Collings (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Brigham Young University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 368 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Availability | Available |
This monograph explores how the constitutional courts in the United States, Germany, and South Africa have invoked slavery, Nazism, and apartheid - three historical evils - as an aid in constitutional interpretation. It examines how the memory of evil pasts moulds constitutional meaning in the contested present.
I. Introduction: Constitutional Justice and Collective Memory 1: Introduction 2: Modes of Judicial Memory 3: The Modes and the Courts 4: Constitutional Memory in Comparative Perspective 5: Conclusion PART ONE: SLAVERY II. A Century of Lost Time: 18
Justin Collings is Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, where he has taught since 2013. He is the author of Democracy's Guardians: A History of the German Federal Constitutional Court, 1951-2001 (OUP, 2015). He h
