Law and the Politics of Memory: Confronting the Past examines law’s role as a tool of memory politics in the efforts of contemporary societies to work through

A major contribution to our understanding of present-day historical consciousness through a study of memory laws across Europe.

Binaifer Nowrojee and Regan Ralph.

The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth. It will appeal to th

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.