ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Heinze

Eric Heinze is the Professor of Law & Humanities at Queen Mary University of London and EU-Consortium Project Leader for MELA (Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective).

POSTS BY Eric Heinze

07 January 2018

Eric Heinze

Law and Historical Memory: Theorising the Discipline

Recent years have witnessed a surge of studies on law and historical memory, often authored by comparative constitutional scholars. Such scholarship frequently takes ‘particularist’ forms, through studies of dramatic events within specific states or regions. As part of the T.M.C. Asser Institute – Verfassungsblog symposium on memory laws, however, this essay asks: Can the discipline be characterised as a whole? If so, in what ways and with what aims? Continue reading >>