Ebook: Lethe's Law: Justice, Law, and Ethics in Reconciliation

This book offers a series of original essays by of scholars whose work looks comparatively at law’s attempts to deal with the past. Ranging from questions of criminal responsibility and amnesty to those of law’s relation to time, memory, and the ethics of reconciliation, it is a sustained jurisprudential and philosophical analysis of one of the most important and pressing legal concerns of our time and will appeal to a broad international audience including lawyers, political theorists, criminologists, and philosophers.