This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. Drawing on work in politics, philosophy, theology, sociology and law, this book will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and academics working in these areas.

Dr Scott Veitch is Reader in Law at the University of Glasgow, UK.

List of Contributors, Introduction, 1 The Time of Reconciliation and the Space of Politics, 2 Reconciliation and Reconstitution, 3 The Risk of Reconciliation, 4 Reconciliation as Domination, 5 'Spatialising History' and Opening Time: Resisting the Reproduction of the Proper Subject, 6 Reconciliation: Where is the Law?, 7 Transnational Law and Societal Memory, 8 Sacrum, Profanum and Social Time: Quasi-theological Reflections on Time and Reconciliation, 9 Reconciliation as Therapy and Compensation: A Critical Analysis, 10 Feminism and the Ethics of Reconciliation, 11 Constitution as Archive, 12 The Time of Address, Index