Scales of Memory Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil

by Collings, Justin

• ISBN13: 9780198858850
• ISBN10: 019885885X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-03-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Justin Collings, Professor of Law, Brigham Young University

Justin Collings is Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, where he has taught since 2013. He is the author of Democracy's Guardians: A History of the German Federal Constitutional Court, 1951-2001 (OUP, 2015). He holds both a PhD in History and a JD from Yale University and was a law clerk to the Honourable Guido Calabresi at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction: Constitutional Justice and Collective Memory
1. Introduction
2. Modes of Judicial Memory
3. The Modes and the Courts
4. Constitutional Memory in Comparative Perspective
5. Conclusion
PART ONE: SLAVERY
II. A Century of Lost Time: 1865-1954
1. Introduction: Memorial Day 1895
2. Mnemonic Gilded Age - After Appomattox: 1865-1896
3. After Plessy: 1896-1954
III. After Brown
1. Introduction
2. From Brown to the Civil Rights Act: 1954-1964
3. From the Civil Rights Act to Bakke: 1964-1978
4. From Bakke to Grutter: 1978-2003
5. Constitutional Memory on the Roberts Court
6. Conclusion
PART TWO: AFTER AUSCHWITZ
IV. After Hitler: 1951-1975
1. Introduction: 10 March 1965
2. Anti-Nazi Assertion and Parenthetical Restraint: 1949-1959
3. Memory Subdued, then Roused: 1959-1975
4. The Social-Liberal Coalition: 1969-1975
5. Conclusion
V. Forever in Hitler's Shadow? The Court Since 1975
1. Introduction: Constitutional Patriotism and the Pre-Constitutional Past
2. The Path to Permanence: 1975-1990
3. Republic of Memory: 1989 and Beyond
4. Conclusion: Generations of Judicial Memory
PART THREE: AFTER APARTHEID
VI. South Africa's First Constitutional Court: 1995-2005
1. Introduction: 10 May 1994
2. Epic Beginnings
3. Crime, Punishment, and the Mnemonics of Redemption
4. Bridge in the Background: The Presence of the Past
5. Spheres of Equality
6. Realms of Liberty
7. Realms of Positive Freedom: Socio-Economic Rights
8. Conclusion
VII. Chasing Rainbows: 2005-2020
1. Introduction: Rainbows End?
2. Continuities
3. Making National Memory
4. Memory and Power
5. Political Rights
6. Socio-Economic Rights
7. Conclusion: The Limits of Judicial Vergangenheitsbew?ltigung
VIII. Conclusion: Memory in the Balance
1. Constitutional Courts as Sites of Memory
2. Revisiting Modes and Models