Lecture Adam Czarnota ‘Collective memories and rule of law’

On 26th May the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence organizes a discussion on collective memories and rule of law. During the seminar, Professor Adam Czarnota will present a paper on ‘Law as Mnemosyne married with Lethe; Quasi-judicial institutions and collective memories’. Professor Wouter Veraart (VU) and Dr. Nanci Adler (NIOD) will give a comment on the presentation.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday 26th May 2015. from 12.00 till 14.00 at the Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Room A.009. Everyone who is interested is cordially invited to attend the seminar. For more information, please visit the website.

Adam Czarnota is professor of law at the University of New South Wales, Australia, the University of Bialystok, Poland, and the University of the Basque Country. He directs the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Basque Country, Spain. He has published extensively on European Union legal strategies of dealing with the past; transitional justice in Central and Eastern Europe; theology, religion and the law and law and globalization.

Nanci Adler is Director of Research / Manager Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD. She is the author of, among others, Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag (2012), The Gulag Survivor: Beyond the Soviet System (2002), and Victims of Soviet Terror: The Story of the Memorial Movement (1993), and numerous scholarly articles on the consequences of Stalinism.  She heads the NIOD Transitional Justice Research Program, “Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Narratives in Historical Perspective.”  Her current research focuses on transitional justice and the legacy of Communism.

Wouter Veraart is Wouter Veraart is Professor of Legal Philosophy and Director of Research at the Free University Amsterdam. In 2005, he obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) on ‘The Deprivation and Restitution of Property Rights during the Years of Occupation and Reconstruction in the Netherlands and in France’. For this book and related publications he received the Dirk Jacob Veegens Award in 2006. In 2007, he obtained a three-year Veni grant on the topic ‘Time, Restitution and the Law’ from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. In his inaugural lecture ‘The Passion for a Mundane Legal Order’, in 2009, he paid attention to the legal consequences of forgetting and remembering as collective answers to injustice of the past.

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