ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 turns to the question of hard legal institutions of memory that are analysed through the application of the new framework. The author analyses legal amnesia in the case of Portugal and memory legislation in the example of Rwanda and Poland. He first shows the unique system of legally sanctioned forgetting implemented in Portugal following the 1974 Carnation Revolution and a later counter-revolution, which succeeded in reconciling the country’s society. Then, the author turns to the extremely strict Rwandan post-genocide memory legislation, which he perceives as potentially counter-productive, moving on to Polish memory legislation, which, after years of adhering to the European standard, now includes a particular civil law regime linked to the concept of the name of the nation.
