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Law and MemoryTowards Legal Governance of HistoryUladzislau Belavusau (University of Amsterdam)Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias (Polish Academy of Sciences)Cambridge University PressSeptember 2017Isbn: 9781108102889Legal governance of memory has played a central role in establishing hegemony of monumental history, and has forged national identities and integration processes in Europe and beyond. In this book, a range of contributors explore both the nature and role of legal engagement into historical memory in selected national law, European and international law. They also reflect on potential conflicts between legal governance, political pluralism, and fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression. In recent years, there have been numerous monumental commemoration practices and judicial trials about correlated events all over the world, and this is a prime opportunity to undertake an important global comparative scrutiny of memory laws. Against the background of mass re-writing of history in different parts of the world, this book revisits a fascinating subject of memory laws from the standpoint of comparative law and transitional justice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: memory laws: mapping a new subject in comparative law and transitional justice Uladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Gliszcyńska-GrabiasPart I. International Law:1. The UN Human Rights Committee's view of the past Antoon De Baets2. The role of international criminal tribunals in shaping the historical accounts of genocides Marina Aksenova3. The 'right to truth' in international law: the 'last utopia'? Patricia NaftaliPart II. European Law (Council of Europe and European Union):4. Kononov vs Latvia as the ontological security struggle over remembering the Second World War Maria Mälksoo5. Testing the 'uniqueness': denial of the Holocaust vs denial of other crimes before the European Court of Human Rights Paolo Lobba6. Legislating history: the European Union and the denial of international crimes Luigi CajaniPart III. National Perspectives within European Union:7. Challenging historical facts and national truths: an analysis of cases from France and Greece Ioanna Tourkochoriti8. Legal silences and the memory of Francoism in Spain Alfons Aragoneses9. Politics of public knowledge in dealing with the past: postcommunist experiences and some lessons from the Czech Republic Jiří Přibáň10. Adjudication in deportation cases of Latvia and international law Ieva Miluna11. Judging the conducător: fascism, communism and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania Cosmin Sebastian Cercel12. Dealing with the past in and around the fundamental law in Hungary Miklós Könczöl13. On the politics of resentment, mis-memory and constitutional fidelity. The demise of the Polish overlapping consensus? Tomasz Tadeusz KoncewiczPart IV. Perspectives beyond European Union:14. Defending Stalinism by means of criminal law: Russia, 1995–2014 Nikolay Koposov15. Cutting the umbilical cord: the narrative of the national past and future in Ukrainian de-communization policy Lina Klymenko16. Banning genocide denial – should geography matter? Robert A. Kahn17. 'From banning Nakba to bridging narratives': the collective memory of 1948 and transitional justice for Israelis and Palestinians Jeremie Bracka18. Historical revisionism and the settler state: the Canadian experience Michael Morden19. Defense of democracy and the preservation of collective memory through criminal legislation: the challenges of reconciliation in Peru Salvador Herencia CarrascoEpilogue: beyond 'memory laws': towards a general theory of law and historical discourse Eric HeinzeIndex.EditorsUladzislau Belavusau, University of AmsterdamUladzislau Belavusau is Senior Researcher in European Law at the T. M. C. Asser Institute (the Hague), Universiteit van Amsterdam.Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Polish Academy of SciencesAleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Senior Researcher in Human Rights at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.ContributorsUladzislau Belavusau, Aleksandra Gliszcyńska-Grabias, Antoon De Baets, Marina Aksenova, Patricia Naftali, Maria Mälksoo, Paolo Lobba, Luigi Cajani, Ioanna Tourkochoriti, Alfons Aragoneses, Jiří Přibáň, Ieva Miluna, Cosmin Sebastian Cercel , Miklós Könczöl, Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz, Nikolay Koposov, Lina Klymenko, Robert A. Kahn, Jeremie Bracka, Michael Morden, Salvador Herencia Carrasco, Eric Heinze&#160;