Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also expresses in her introduction a tentative hope that along with the rise of institutional destruction and degradation of whole populations have developed the legal tools for peace and recovery. She writes, "Some of the incidents of mass violence are linked...by wondrous, though painful and complex, transformations of the surrounding societies after the events. Less oppressive, and even democratic regimes, [have] emerged." It is those "legal responses" to the horrors that are the focus of her work...
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness looks at the two extremes of response in their legal manifestations: vengeance in the form of justice in trials and forgiveness in the form of amnesty and reconciliation offered by "truth commissions." The Nuremberg Trials of World War II and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa serve as Professor Minow's main examples, and she examines each of their approaches in two rather lengthy chapters. She critiques them on the level of their effects on victims and survivors as well a on a national and societal level. How does each of these approaches help...
Susan R. Weld '70, research fellow in East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, moderated the two-hour panel discussion. She is a cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt and set the tone for the evening when she quoted Roosevelt, who said she "would rather light a candle than curse the darkness...
...knew their faces and haircuts, noticed what they wore in court, styled ourselves legal experts after absorbing the legal terms they shouted back and forth so that come the Monica Lewinsky scandal, we knew enough to label Linda Tripp's fun with her tape recorder "entrapment." We thought television had given us a real sense of what it meant to be a lawyer...
Beer is the third Harvard professor to testify before the committee. Last week, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. testified as legal experts. Both agreed with Beer that there are not sufficient grounds to impeach the President...